Rate that coach (no hurley)

[Jaydumo20]

Assign these coaches a grade.

1-100. Holistic, not just this year. 1 being non-existently awful, 100 being legendary and near impossible to reach.

Example: A coach with a lot of wins but no rings may not make the 90s.



Mark Few
Coach Cal
Greg McD
Scheyer
Pitino
Penny Hardaway
Scott Drew

And for fun: Jimmy B!

This list is arbitrary. I'm not looking for any particular assessment.

Try to give some reason for your analysis.

 

[RuffRuff]

1) Pitino - gets the most out of his players, master motivator, proven to be able to win in multiple programs

Murky from here. I might actually go with Few next, as a guy who has consistently won for so many years without a ton of NBA talent, at a small mid major school in the middle of no where.

As a coach, Cal is at the bottom, he's almost exclusively a great recruiter. I'd say Scheyer falls into that bucket and just below Cal since he's only been doing it for 3 years. I do recognize that recruiting is a very important part of coaching.

Penny has been a mess for the most part, I'd put him a the bottom. McDermott is a great coach and has done more with less. Drew has the NC but generally speaking doesn't maximize his talent. I'd look at this more in tiers:

Pitino

Great coaches
Few
McDermott

Great recruiters
Cal
Scheyer
Drew

Then Penny

 

[Huskyforlife]

If 10 is Hall of Fame, Pitino/Drew/Few/Cal/JimB would be 10s.

if 8 is "Hall of very good" give me McDermott.

Penny is probably just above average, so 6.

Scheyer is too early to rank, but he's off to a blistering pace, and he's incredibly young.

 

[Jaydumo20]

If 10 is Hall of Fame, Pitino/Drew/Few/Cal/JimB would be 10s.

if 8 is "Hall of very good" give me McDermott.

Penny is probably just above average, so 6.

Scheyer is too early to rank, but he's off to a blistering pace, and he's incredibly young.

Good list.
I should probably change the grading from 1-100 to account for differences between, let's say, Few-Drew-Pitino. It's hard for me to call them all 10s

 

[pj]

If you take out recruiting McDermott belongs with the greats. If you include recruiting that helps Penny, Cal, and Scheyer.

It's really two different skill sets. If Scheyer and McDermott swapped players it would be no contest.

 

[Scottzer]

Few, pitino, Calhoun are all A’s. Calhoun and Few took programs from obscurity to FF’s or better. Few has been ridiculously consistent, somehow creating almost championship teams from a mediocre conference. Calhoun would have backsliding seasons, but he built the program from whole cloth. Pitino helped Providence get to a FF. Sure he has titles that stick or don’t, but a helluva coach.

Kelvin Sampson - A or A-. Year in, year out, Houston is never a team you want to face.

McDermott - I think l, could be a title coach at UConn. I don’t think he’s going anywhere, ever, but it’s hard to go below an A-

Cal, Scott Drew - B. I love Drew’s personality, but I’m not sure how good a coach he is. Cal, at least at one time, could coach.

Scheyer, Penny - Incomplete. I get that Scheyer has tons of take talent, but, still it’s not that easy to win with so many freshmen. Penny has learned from his earlier mistakes, and this season will help us see what he has learned. For him to fire his staff over the summer, and not have it result in chaos means he’s figured out something in the leadership dept.

 

[gtcam]

K Sampson - hands down

 

[UCFan1513]

Rating just driving ability…
Boeheim and Few: 1
Everyone else: 100