Good for a laugh - The Athletic's list of top 25 coaches of the 2000's

[PAHusky]

Ranking men’s college basketball’s top 25 coaches of the 2000s: Bill Self, Roy Williams top list

The NCAA Tournament is one-and-done chaos — regular-season success should matter more when judging college basketball coaches.

www.nytimes.com

Even the normally irrational comment section thinks it's bogus

 

[Inyatkin]

Dan Hurley has improved his team basically every season, culminating in back to back titles.

But give me the guy who lost to a 16 seed

 

[husky429]

Dan Hurley has improved his team basically every season, culminating in back to back titles.

But give me the guy who lost to a 16 seed

Kenpom rankings of his teams:

Wagner:
'11: 230
'12: 102

URI:
'13: 193
'14: 115
'15: 60
'16: 82
'17: 34
'18: 52

UConn:
'19: 98
'20: 52
'21: 21
'22: 22
'23: 1
'24: 1
'25: 32

 

[Inyatkin]

Kenpom rankings of his teams:

Wagner:
'11: 230
'12: 102

URI:
'13: 193
'14: 115
'15: 60
'16: 82
'17: 34
'18: 52

UConn:
'19: 98
'20: 52
'21: 21
'22: 22
'23: 1
'24: 1
'25: 32

seems like he can coach, IDK

 

[UConn Dan]

Are Jim Calhoun and Dan Hurley on the list?

 

[Lafayette]

To me the band Athlete has more credibility than the Athletic.

They are taking ESPN's play on lists being controversial and this one is fully caffeinated with controversy.

 

[Lafayette]

Are Jim Calhoun and Dan Hurley on the list?

14 /15

 

[HuskyHawk]

The guy who made the list said it doesn't include the 90s, hence the Calhoun ranking. But if that's true, then Hurley needs to be higher.

 

[ctbro1999]

Honestly shocked they didn't put Coack K #1 with huge DOOK bias.

 

[Jaydumo20]

@temery can we ban lists like we ban political posts?

 

[auror]

The guy who made the list said it doesn't include the 90s, hence the Calhoun ranking. But if that's true, then Hurley needs to be higher.

With his methodology (valuing regular seasons, conference/conf tourny titles, longevity/total wins only in the 25 years, and including titles only as part of the larger resume), it's fair to penalize both Calhoun and Hurley. Calhoun was still better from '01-'12 than Hurley has been his whole career.

But I just disagree with the way he has weighted his methodology due to significant differences in conference affiliation difficulty.

 

[UConnTrumbull]

3 of his top 10 have never won a national title in that time frame: Sampson, Few, Pitino*

*vacated

 

[Inyatkin]

Hurley made Wagner respectable, Rhode Island a team that won in the tournament and got multiple titles at UConn. Knock him for lack of regular season titles, I guess, but there is some context. The chart above doesn't show what his teams were the year before he got there. Spoiler -- they were bad.

 

[Waquoit]

The guy who made the list said it doesn't include the 90s, hence the Calhoun ranking. But if that's true, then Hurley needs to be higher.

He still did more from 00-14 than almost all on the list. Maybe all. All while UConn was getting unfairly screwed every which way.

 

[HuskyHawk]

With his methodology (valuing regular seasons, conference/conf tourny titles, longevity/total wins only in the 25 years, and including titles only as part of the larger resume), it's fair to penalize both Calhoun and Hurley. Calhoun was still better from '01-'12 than Hurley has been his whole career.

But I just disagree with the way he has weighted his methodology due to significant differences in conference affiliation difficulty.

None of us like the list. Even me, who thinks we tend to underrate consistent excellence vs titles. Hard to see Stevens so high, or Few, when they didn't break through and win one.

 

[AZHuskiePop]

Any idiot can make a list and apparently that’s who got the assignment .