Naismith Coach of the Year Finalists

[Plebe]

It's Vic's year to win. 32-1, undefeated regular season, and swept a very good SEC without a top 20 recruit on the roster. That's COY right there.

Several other coaches have done a great job this year. I'm a hard critic of her, but Mulkey has done an outstanding job. Great development of both posts and Wallace, not to mention she's done a terrific job bringing the freshmen along. Easily could be undefeated if not for Cox being out one game.

I agree with you about Mulkey. There isn't a player on her roster who isn't markedly better than last year, and her freshmen became major contributors over the course of the season.

 

[Alydar]

What Muffet believes is besides the point I am making. The ACC awards votes have honored both Hines-Allen and Durr as Player of the Year. So Louisville has two PoYs and ND has none. And Walz gets CoY for finishing with the same record as ND?

Remember the ACC honors were announced before the ACC tournament.

You also suggest that having the POY is more important than having the most talented 5 players. Do you actually believe that? I'd like to see you rank the 10 starters. That's a better measure of who you think is more talented than just the opinions of the ACC coaches who are no better a source than MM, whose opinion you reject as meaningless.

 

[Orangutan]

You also suggest that having the POY is more important than having the most talented 5 players. Do you actually believe that? I'd like to see you rank the 10 starters. That's a better measure of who you think is more talented than just the opinions of the ACC coaches who are no better a source than MM, whose opinion you reject as meaningless.

I didn't say Muffet's opinion is meaningless. I said it was beside the point I was making, which was solely about the ACC awards given by the media.

The question of who actually has better players is completely different. I haven't watched enough of Louisville to fairly judge their players, which I'm sure sounds like a cop out but is the truth.

Overall, I think their teams are roughly at the same talent level. All of Louisville's rotation players were highly-ranked recruits, except Arica Carter who was a little further down the top 100.

 

[Alydar]

I didn't say Muffet's opinion is meaningless. I said it was beside the point I was making, which was solely about the ACC awards given by the media.

The question of who actually has better players is completely different. I haven't watched enough of Louisville to fairly judge their players, which I'm sure sounds like a cop out but is the truth.

Overall, I think their teams are roughly at the same talent level. All of Louisville's rotation players were highly-ranked recruits, except Arica Carter who was a little further down the top 100.

That's fair. I look at it this way. Coming into this season the Irish had won both the regular season titles and the ACC tournament titles for 4 years, as much as UConn has in the AAC. In those 4 years they lost only 2 conference games, including the tournament. Now, in their 5th year Louisville beats them to tie for the title. I think it would be odd if the ACC media, tired of seeing one team dominate for so long, didn't vote Walz COY for slaying the dragon.

Not only didn't I see Louisville much this season but also the Irish so I can't say who is more deserving but I think that when it came time to vote the media looked more at who the Irish still had on the court than who they didn't have .

 

[Golden Husky]

Very impressive quartet. I believe, among them, they boast 12 national championships.