Lute Olson or Jim Boeheim, whose resume would you rather have?

[huskies20]

I was just tossing this around in my mind. Both have pretty similar stats, but Lute has A LOT more NBA talent, but I would say is not considered as great all time by the national media.

Lute:
NCAA Division I Tournament Championship (1997)
5× NCAA Regional Championships - Final Four (1980, 1988, 1994, 1997, 2001)
4× Pac-10 Tournament championships (1988–1990, 2002)
11× Pac-10 regular season championships (1986, 1988–1991, 1993, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005)
Big West regular season championship (1974)
Big Ten regular season championship (1979)

Jim:
NCAA Division I championship (2003)
5× NCAA Regional championships – Final Four (1987, 1996, 2003, 2013, 2016)
5× Big East Tournament championships (1981, 1988, 1992, 2005, 2006)
8× Big East regular season championships (1980, 1986, 1987, 1990, 1991, 2000, 2003, 2010)

 

[#1 PA Husky Fan]

Jim Calhoun

 

[Mr. French]

But you're gonna make us all do the research ourselves?

 

[ctchamps]

Tyler Olander > Lute Olson
2>1

 

[huskies20]

But you're gonna make us all do the research ourselves?

Student of the game

 

[ctchamps]

On the serious side Lute by a landslide. My brother in law is a big U of Az and Lute fan.

And Lute just to offend the Cuse trolls.

 

[Horatio]

Lute Olson - he's nostril friendly

 

[QDOG5]

Really close. BY hates Boeheim so I'm going out on a limb and guessing Lute wins the poll.

 

[Palatine]

Lute wins because of his famous daughters, the Olson Twins.

 

[Jerry1714]

Lute.

He took Iowa to a Final Four. 2x National Coach of the Year. Won coach of the year in the Big 10 and Pac 10. Higher winning percentage.

Arizona had been to 3 NCAAT before Lute. Cuse had been to a Final Four before Bohiem.

It is not close.

 

[August_West]

Lute can coach circles around Boewhine

 

[CardiacAndre7]

Forgot wins

 

[Mr. French]

Student of the game

I was just messing around, I would never vote for Boeheim in a poll like this, I didn't need to see facts.

 

[Yorkeez4]

I voted for Lute. One award I give nose-picker is the ability to schedule cupcakes at home to ensure winning 20+ games every year. At least the NCAA finally made that behavior unacceptable. I would have 800 wins if I coached with those players and that schedule.

 

[intlzncster]

Lute. Similar resumes but a lot better dude.

Boeheim's probably loved by the media so much cause most of them went there.

And Lute doesn't need a gimmick D.

 

[RichZ]

Pretty sure that Lute's resume doesn't include being a poster boy for Nose Picker's Anonymous, so he gets extra credit for that.

 

[ctchamps]

The only credit I'd give the picker is he looked the other way regarding Laura!

Can't believe his players didn't. I guess they closed their eyes and held their nose.

 

[ConnHuskBask]

Seem pretty damn similar to me.

 

[CL82]

Mary Ann

 

[Chin Diesel]

Lute. Because he got to accomplish everything in Tucson, not Syracuse.

 

[Scoe]

Lute by far he lives in Tucson and enjoys life, Boeheim lives in upstate and is miserable.

 

[Uconnrick]

I was just tossing this around in my mind. Both have pretty similar stats, but Lute has A LOT more NBA talent, but I would say is not considered as great all time by the national media.

Lute:
NCAA Division I Tournament Championship (1997)
5× NCAA Regional Championships - Final Four (1980, 1988, 1994, 1997, 2001)
4× Pac-10 Tournament championships (1988–1990, 2002)
11× Pac-10 regular season championships (1986, 1988–1991, 1993, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005)
Big West regular season championship (1974)
Big Ten regular season championship (1979)

Jim:
NCAA Division I championship (2003)
5× NCAA Regional championships – Final Four (1987, 1996, 2003, 2013, 2016)
5× Big East Tournament championships (1981, 1988, 1992, 2005, 2006)
8× Big East regular season championships (1980, 1986, 1987, 1990, 1991, 2000, 2003, 2010)

That's easy. It's Olsen, because there are fewer boogers on Lutes resume.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Lute's success is concentrated during a shorter duration. His career was cut short due to health issues. Certainly would've added wins and probably conference titles, maybe could've added another Final 4 or two if he'd been able to coach longer. As an Arizona fan that late game collapse vs. Illinois in the '05 Regional Final still pisses me off, never quite gonna get over that one.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Also my impression is that Boeheim has had more mediocre seasons at Syracuse than Lute did at Arizona. The 'Cuse has faded a bit since they joined the ACC. They are a far cry from the national power they once were during the glory days of the Big East (but the same could be said for most of the former conference members--sorry I know it hurts but it's true).

 

[Huskies4ever]

I was just tossing this around in my mind. Both have pretty similar stats, but Lute has A LOT more NBA talent, but I would say is not considered as great all time by the national media.

Lute:
NCAA Division I Tournament Championship (1997)
5× NCAA Regional Championships - Final Four (1980, 1988, 1994, 1997, 2001)
4× Pac-10 Tournament championships (1988–1990, 2002)
11× Pac-10 regular season championships (1986, 1988–1991, 1993, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005)
Big West regular season championship (1974)
Big Ten regular season championship (1979)

Jim:
NCAA Division I championship (2003)
5× NCAA Regional championships – Final Four (1987, 1996, 2003, 2013, 2016)
5× Big East Tournament championships (1981, 1988, 1992, 2005, 2006)
8× Big East regular season championships (1980, 1986, 1987, 1990, 1991, 2000, 2003, 2010)

Interesting. Every time the Cuse won the BigEast regular season, they did not win the BET.