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Message: [QUOTE="Huskyforlife, post: 5171036, member: 3403"] Talent is probably 80% of the equation if we’re being honest. I sorta think college coaches should be looked at like GMs that run practices and choose the in game rotations. The head coach decides who to offer, unlike professional sports where the coach is at the will of GM for roster decisions. Hurley couldn’t scheme his best defense of all time until he started Clingan. He couldn’t run his best offenses of all time without Newton. I think his fear of being mediocre drove him to recruit better offensive players(karaban/spencer) while balancing his love of physical defensive oriented players(Clingan/Jackson Jr/Castle). We’re lucky losing keeps him up at night. For all the hate Cal gets on this board, he sorta proves my point. When he amassed an absurd amount talent, his team was unstoppable on the way to a national championship. This proves talent is the vast majority of the equation, unless you think he had coaching genius for only one season in his entire career? We also understand this intuitively because of how popular recruiting is to follow. If we really thought Dan would win with any assortment of personnel, we wouldn’t be typing out scouting reports of our favorite UConn targets. My favorite example is in football with Bill Belichick. Sure he has more post season success than any other coach in history, but what happened the moment Brady left? What did he accomplish before Brady? The reality was he coached defense primarily before getting the New England job, Brady made those offenses special, not Bill. And then Brady went on to win again in Tampa. Give or take 80%. [/QUOTE]

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