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Respect for JC (#5), disrespect for Dan (unranked). It's not as if this omits current coaches; multiple are listed. How can you leave off a 2-time champ who took a team from the doldrums to the top of college basketball? Preaching to the choir, of course.

 
nomar said:
Respect for JC (#5), disrespect for Dan (unranked). It's not as if this omits current coaches; multiple are listed. How can you leave off a 2-time champ who took a team from the doldrums to the top of college basketball? Preaching to the choir, of course.

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Yeah that's crazy. I think Mark few is an awesome coach but where is his natty? Dan has 2
 
2014DualCs said:
I guess I’ll bite because it’s just some random social media account sending out a graphic of their beliefs.

But what has Scott Drew done to deserve a top 40 place over Hurley?
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I'd say that theme here is longstanding coaches &/or retired, and Hurley hasn't coached enough yet at UConn, but Drew throws that out of the window.
 
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boog204 said:
Mike Montgomery? 1 final four, a good 5-6 run with Stanford, where they mattered, but other than that?
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Yeah, I joke about Phil Woolpert, who I learned existed five minutes ago, but he won back to back titles a million years ago. Mike Montgomery, come on now
 
Inyatkin said:
Yeah, I joke about Phil Woolpert, who I learned existed five minutes ago, but he won back to back titles a million years ago. Mike Montgomery, come on now
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Yep, I had to Google a few of these people - Woolpert included. But Mike Montgomery? That's insane. In its heyday, the Big East alone had 7-8 coaches better than MM.
 
I feel as if most lists don’t put JC that high so even though I think he should’ve been higher 5 is pretty good. I don’t think they put Hurley on because he’s got so much meat left on the bone they didn’t rank him yet.
 
I hated watching them but Tony Bennett at #31 is criminal. He dominated the ACC when K, Williams and Boeheim were still active and formidable.
 
RuffRuff said:
I'd say that theme here is longstanding coaches &/or retired, and Hurley hasn't coached enough yet at UConn, but Drew throws that out of the window.
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That was my original thought without looking into it. Do all the coaches on there have a certain amount of wins Danny hasn’t caught up to only because of longevity?
 
Worse than their ranking:

The default position of any coach from pre-integration is not to put them on any GOAT list. Maybe would bend on IBA and Allen, but would need to think about it. And a hard no on Adoph Rupp.
Calipari has proven he sucks when he is not the only one paying players.
Jud Heathcote won once, with one of the best basketball players of all time who grew up in the same town.
Mike Montgomery was a solid coach, but Top 40 of all time?
Don Haskins was a very mediocre coach for a long time after winning his title.
Bo Ryan is decent, not great.
Lefty Driesell? He was OK, but let his program get completely out of control and a player died.

Better than their ranking:

Hurley has 2 titles.
Denny Crum is #6. He was an incredible coach.
Gene Keady is one of the best college coaches without a title
John Thompson is a tough call. He was very innovative early in his career and changed basketball, but he mailed it in the last few years and not making the Final Four in 1996 with Allen Iverson is a pretty big fail. That team was stacked.
Brad Stevens making back to back National Championships with Butler is incredible, especially considering he made the second after losing the best player in program history.
I was always a fan of John Cheney and the way his teams played. My biggest criticism is him not beating the snot out of Calipari when he had the chance.
Kelvin Sampson is not on the list? Seriously?
 
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I’ll die on the hill that Roy Williams was only considered a great cbb coach because he was so bad at getting guys ready for the league, he’d have a team of former top 25 junior and seniors every single time he won a championship.

If he was actually good at developing talent they wouldn’t have stayed long enough for him to win anything.

Calhoun >>>> Roy
 
I'm realizing I'm just going to do my own top 10.

1) Wooden... I love how everyone diminishes the fact he dominated the 60's and early 70's. They were the Celtics of college basketball for a decade and a half.
2) K... I'm holding my nose...
3a) Pitino... I'm also holding my nose but he would figure out how to win anywhere
3b) Calhoun... see above
5) Knight... horrible person/great coach
6) Williams... an absolutely amazing coach but imagine if Calhoun had that brand behind him for 20 years. Calhoun would have had 5 or 6 championships.
7) Dean Smith
8) Jay Wright
9) Bill Self
10) Dan Hurley
 
This list is horrible in every way, it's like it was created to troll Hurley. It's criminal Dean Smith only won 2 national championships, he had the best collection of talent ever.
 
navery12 said:
Before anyone gets upset, the reason why Dan Hurley isn't on here is it's a list from February 2023 before he had any championships. Why a random SEC Twitter account decided to post it this week is bizarre
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Still upsets me anyway.

From last nights game head to head, imagine Scheyer had these two plus a host of other 4 and 5 star supporting cast members and still couldn’t win the title. F Duke.

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2014DualCs said:
I guess I’ll bite because it’s just some random social media account sending out a graphic of their beliefs.

But what has Scott Drew done to deserve a top 40 place over Hurley?
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Gotta hand it to them, it’s effective rage bait.

Here's more. Not only is Danny not in the all-time top-40, coaching his team to a 20-1 record and wins over Illinois, BYU, Kansas and Florida doesn't even get him in the current top-10.
 
nomar said:
Gotta hand it to them, it’s effective rage bait.

Here's more. Not only is Danny not in the all-time top-40, coaching his team to a 20-1 record and wins over Illinois, BYU, Kansas and Florida doesn't even get him in the current top-10.
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The disrespect is…palpable.
 
Is it? Says Coach of the Year. Either way, I don't know if I'd put him in the top 10 yet - I'm certainly hoping that he belongs there by the end of the season though.

I don't know enough bb history to rank 10 all-time, let alone 40, coaches but I believe by the time Dan retires he'd be on any reasonable person's list.
 
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