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Message: [QUOTE="StunningSteve, post: 2377003, member: 7895"] Let's compare.. (to see just how solid they are) Bear in mind that college sports is entirely a coach driven business (Just by moving Coach A - like Dixon from Pitt to TCU - suddenly Program B (TCU) has a program. So, who are the coaches in the NBE... 1. Jay Wright 2. Chris Mack 3. Ed Cooley 4. Greg McDermott 5. Steve Wojciechowski 6. Dave Leitao 7. LaVall Jordan 8. Chris Mullin 9. Patrick Ewing 10. Kevin Willard And, how do they stack up, vs... 1. Kevin Ollie 2. Gregg Marshall 3. Tubby Smith 4. Jeff Lebo 5. Kelvin Sampson 6. Mick Cronin 7. Mike Dunleavy 8. Johnny Dawkins 9. Tim Jankovich 10. Brian Gregory 11. Frank Haith 12. Fran Dunphy I don't think its a contest when you talk about coaching ability/IQ. The NBE is hiring all their former players instead of looking for the most legit basketball brains. If you believe that Georgetown with Ewing as coach is in the same universe (stratosphere) as it was when he was a player in the 80s then you are a fool. Their recruiting has devolved since even Jt3 was canned. As for the individual teams, the programs in the AAC have more national championships/final fours/ etc as well. The NBE has more recent success. That's it. And that advantage is rooted in the fact that the American took over some programs that needed to be upgraded. That upgrade has worked out very nicely at SMU (Jank) and UCF (Dawkins). SMU has been a tourney regular and UCF will be starting this year when an influx of transfers (including future NBAer Aubrey Dawkins) supplement the core of BJ and Tacko that made the NIT Final Four. Frankly, I've enjoyed watching the process of how the conference has been built, and has grown. College sports is 100% coach driven. Hiring all those rubes will tank the NBE's bids. You don't replace a Chris Holtmann with an 11 win coach and not fall off. It will be an interesting experiment because they chose their expansion candidates on proven success and their coaches on a COMPLETELY different metric. I appreciate all the sports. AAC Football has 3 teams in the Top 25 right now, and I'll cheer them on just as I would if UConn were one of the three. Sorry if you can't relate to that. I want Randy to get into that discussion so bad... Just as much as I want the 5th National Championship. [/QUOTE]

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