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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 3248501, member: 1131"] So, Justavisitor, you seem to think that a coach should be measured solely on what they do with the roster that has somehow been handed to them. As if the coach, in his/her capacity as a recruiter, lacks control over the composition of that roster. But, of course, recruiting is the single largest component of a college coach's job. It's the only part of the job that Tennessee coaches have been able to do really well for the last 10 years or so, and that has made the LV's a ranked team for nearly that entire period, despite no contribution from the coaches in any other dimension. So when you are comparing coaches, you have to give their relative recruiting success a very high weight in the comparison. On that basis, Geno has outperformed Muffitt even in the post-Skylar era (the last eight years or so). That is measured by 8 Final Four appearances and 4 NC's, compared to 1 NC and significantly fewer Final Fours for ND. [/QUOTE]