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Message: [QUOTE="Hans Sprungfeld, post: 4514513, member: 181"] Again, I regularly refer to this as his #1 growing edge. For the benefit of those more expressively dismayed, I'll acknowledge that for years I have casually dissed certain coaches who have fallen short in comparable (though inexact) ways. By this, I mean that I've said, "You don't have to worry about _______. He can't win the big ones." This worked for many who coached a long time before making the Final 4. And then it didn't. Only one NC winner: Mark Few 2017, and 2021 (but no NCs) Dana Altman 2017 Bruce Pearl 2019 Mick Cronin 2021 Scott Drew 2021 (NC) Rick Barnes made the Final 4 once, 20 years ago, so I don't worry about him. Kelvin Sampson made it in 2002, but I'd gotten to writing him off before he got to the Final 4 in 2021. I still think, "AAC..." Shaka Smart did it in 2010 at age 33 with VCU, but hasn't been back to the S16 ever since. Greg McDermott made the S16 in 2021. Ed Cooley made his first S16 last year, after a quarter century, but needed Deepster's mojo to do it. Sean Miller & Matt Painter are probably the top 2 coaches who are still at 0 Final Fours. And yeah, Dan Hurley is at 0 Sweet 16s. I'd probably be unkind toward him if he didn't coach the team I root for. I probably wouldn't give him much energy except for his career arc. But he IS the head coach for my my team this season, and he has nearly a week to prepare for the team's next game 5 days from now, in Chicago, against DePaul. He and his staff & players better be concentrating efforts toward the next game and building toward the post-season rather than doing any career overview. I recommend UConn fans declutter themselves in support of the team's focus on daily improvement. [/QUOTE]

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