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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 5171057, member: 833"] There are different kinds of coaching skills too. Calhoun is, without question, the best talent developer in NCAA history. How many unrated recruits did he turn into NBA players, and how many non-Top 10 recruits did he turn into college and NBA stars? His ability to pick out a player like Ben Gordon, who I believe only had Gutheridge from UNC, UConn, and a bunch of A10 offers, was amazing. By the end of his career, Calhoun just showing up in a gym would get a player bumped a star and pull 10 offers out of the woodwork. Shabazz was not getting chased by many before Calhoun offered him, and then he got flooded with offers. On the other hand, Calhoun would lose his spit frequently, and he wasn't always the best game coach. UConn/Florida 1994 is one of the worst coached games I can remember. Carnesecca was a great game coach. He could practically feel the gym, and know exactly which move to make. I can't explain it to people who didn't see him coach. Louie also let a Nigerian 7 footer show up at Kennedy in the winter with no one to meet him, freezing his butt off, and so Hakeem Olajuwon found a Nigerian baggage handler and asked him which place of New York, Providence, Louisville and Houston was the most like Lagos. This has to be the single biggest recruiting screwup in college basketball history. Imagine Mullin and Olajuwon on the same team in New York? Some coaches make one really big innovation in their careers. Jay Wright was one of the first coaches to adopt an analytics offensive approach together with dribble drive and leaning on really physical players. I don't think coaches are on a continuum. It is more nuanced. [/QUOTE]

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