Greatest coaches of the last 25 years
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I realize this is click bait, but I cannot resist pointing out that Brady did better without Belichick (Tampa Bay), than Belichick did without Brady (Cleveland and, for that matter, New England). I do not see how this makes Belichick top ten, let alone first. At least the others gained the ultimate prize without one particular player.
Speaking of attaining a championship with more than one particular player, or set of players, what about Calhoun?
I also think there can be an unwarranted bias towards large squads, shifting the importance of single players towards coaches. This holds true more for the pros. In college the concentration of top talent for top programs is harder to overcome with larger squads. Cinderellas in basketball are more common than in football.
Speaking of attaining a championship with more than one particular player, or set of players, what about Calhoun?
I also think there can be an unwarranted bias towards large squads, shifting the importance of single players towards coaches. This holds true more for the pros. In college the concentration of top talent for top programs is harder to overcome with larger squads. Cinderellas in basketball are more common than in football.
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I notice they are ALL men. How anyone can leave out PAT SUMMITT, I don't know. She nwas GREAT before most of the men were! And I'm a dyed in the wool die hard GENO and Uconn fan.
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Bill Belichick #1??????? Consider the following:
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He should be disqualified from consideration. Now at North Carolina. If I was the Athletic Director at another ACC University I would be tightening football team security.
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He should be disqualified from consideration. Now at North Carolina. If I was the Athletic Director at another ACC University I would be tightening football team security.
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PHS’s greatest accomplishments took place before 2000 and this list is for the best in the last 25 years. I do agree women’s sports is underrepresented. Russ Rose, Penn State’s volleyball coach, deserves a mention, for example
Russ Rose - Wikipedia
I agree with putting Rose on the list. Also Anson Dorrance of North Carolina women's soccer, although a large chunk of his success is 20th century.Russ Rose - Wikipedia
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Auriemma has 10 championships in the last 25 years. It doesn't appear anyone else on the list can touch that.
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How about rob the cradlegate.
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Sadly, however, few can probably name Russ Rose or know who he was. Or Anson Dorrance as someone suggested. Or, staying with volleyball - John Cook.PHS’s greatest accomplishments took place before 2000 and this list is for the best in the last 25 years. I do agree women’s sports is underrepresented. Russ Rose, Penn State’s volleyball coach, deserves a mention, for example
Russ Rose - Wikipedia
Women's sports is sadly low profile, and continues to be. Otherwise (and I don't know the soccer folks) I don't have any objection to the names on the list, although I have no idea how to order them - but I don't think of Belichick as the #1.
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Sir Alex Ferguson won 13 Championships with Manchester United - Come on Geno, two more.
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I believe that Geno should be #1 and Sir Alex #2. With the professional sports teams you have less turnover and have essentially the same teams year after year (a few players change each year). With college sports, you have graduation every year and a completely different set of players every 4 years.
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I agree, John Cook should definitely be on the list. His Nebraska program was always a contender for a NC and typically in the top 5 and hardly ever out of the top 10. He just retired about a year ago. His program put out some of the greatest volleyball players ever. And his coaching tree is pretty dominant in the college game as well. Just like Russ, he was a legend even before he retired.
Nebraska fans acknowledge his prowess . . . . as well as Tom Osborne
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If Geno's teams can average 35 wins per season over the next five seasons, he'll pass Popovich in total victories.
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Which is insane when you consider that in WCBB, pretty much the max # of games per season is 40, including all tournaments. In the NBA, it's like 82, then if you win the championship, you technically have the potential for what - 28 more games if each round actually went 7 games? Obviously most don't, but every year, Geno has less than half the chances for wins a NBA coach has...
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He’s just rounding out his resume before running for president
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He hasn't won much in the last 25 years.
I would like a second opinion on this. Pat Summitt coached until 2011/12 and her record of 1098 and 160 speaks for itself.PHS’s greatest accomplishments took place before 2000 and this list is for the best in the last 25 years. I do agree women’s sports is underrepresented. Russ Rose, Penn State’s volleyball coach, deserves a mention, for example
Russ Rose - Wikipedia
Correction ........ Pat's record was 1098 and 208 which few can match. I think she merits consideration.
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Agree with you that his performance merits consideration but man was he a "starts with a p and rhymes with trick." Actually said he hoped Stanford (and Cal) would "die on the vine" during realignment. Talk about sour grapes.
As for the rest of this list, what about Dick Gould and Lele Farood, our all time winningest men's and women's tennis coaches? Dick led Stanford to 17 NCAA titles between 1973 and 2000, and Lele brought home 10 titles over 24 seasons, and never longer than 3 years apart, which means every player who was on her roster for all four years of college won a championship. Truly, who can match that in any sport or league, college or pro?
Who won the most games with inferiour talent? All the coaches on this list won because they had the best players so evalutating a coach is pretty complex. I also think comparing coaches across different sports is impossible. The college coaches on the list may or may not be the best coaches but they certainly are or were the best at recruiting top level talent that fit their program perfectly. In the pros a lot of coaches on the list won because they had the roster and Popovich is at the top of that list.
Farood seems a worthy addition. Gould doesn't qualify for this thread, as it only covers the last 25 years. Greatest coaches of all time is a much bigger discussion and would include many more names.
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There was a guy named John Wooden who used to coach UCLA. He wasn't too bad. Won a few National Championships and sent more than a couple of players to the pros.
Yeah. He's definitely been crushing it the last 25 years. surprised he didn't make the list.
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That's because too many people believe that sports didn't exist before ESPN.
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