Who are the top 10 coaches in CBB as of today? (Rank them)

[Jaydumo20]

We've had some time to settle down after the tourney. Weve also seen how coaches have done in the portal.

List in order, your opinion, the top ten coaches in college bball right now. The criteria is up to you.

*You dont have to put Todd Golden in there even though he won, if you think there are better coaches out there.

*You dont have to put Dan Hurley as #1 either.
I know we've done this is some form every year, but things change.

 

[shizzle787]

1. Bill Self
2. Dan Hurley
3. Rick Pitino
4. Tom Izzo
5. Bryce Drew
6. Todd Golden
7. Mark Few
8. Kelvin Sampson
9. Matt Painter
10. Nate Oats

 

[Old blue]

1. Dan Hurley
2. Matt Painter
3. Rick Pitino
4 kelvin sampson
5. Mark few
6 Tim Izzo
7. Bruce Pearl
8. nate oats
9. bill self
10. Nate oats

 

[B1GEast]

Bill Self is a blatant cheater and any team playing at Phog Allen has to deal with incredible BS ref bias. It's almost impossible to win there.

 

[Jaydumo20]

1. Dan Hurley
2. K SAM
3. IZZO
4. PITINO
5. FEW
6. BARNES
7.PEARL
8. OATS
9. Scott Drew
10 Tommy Lloyd/TJ Otzelberger

 

[rrskyjf]

1. Sampson
2. Pitino
3. Izzo
4. Hurley
5. Few
6. Oats
7. Beard
8. Painter
9. Golden
10. Pope

 

[willie99]

Hurley
Samson
Pitino
Self
Izzo
Pearl
Few
Pope
Painter
Oats
McDermott

 

[ecasadoSBU]

1. Dan Hurley
2. Matt Painter
3. Rick Pitino
4 kelvin sampson
5. Mark few
6 Tim Izzo
7. Bruce Pearl
8. nate oats
9. bill self
10. Nate oats

Interesting case of lower case nate being better than upper case Nate. Usually it's the other way around

 

[CL82]

Interesting case of lower case nate being better than upper case Nate. Usually it's the other way around

Lowercase Nate is more understated.

 

[aburks41]

Hurley, Self, and Pitino are all Tier 1. Only active coaches with multiple rings.

Sampson, Few, Izzo, Painter, Oats, Pearl, Drew, Golden are Tier 2

Scheyer, McDermott, Barnes, May, Otz are Tier 3

 

[Jaydumo20]

There are something like 350+ college coaches and we all choose roughly the same ten guys. But I i totally forgot about lowercase nate. I meant to put him on my list

 

[ucp990411]

Bill Self has done less with more talent than any other coach in recent years.

 

[ucp990411]

1) Dan Hurley
2) Kelvin Sampson
3) Phil Sellers
4) Craig McDermott
5) Todd Golden
6 Rick Pitino
7) Nate Oats
8) Tommy Lloyd
9) Matt Painter
10) Tom Izzo
347) Steve Pikell
348) Red Autry
349) Hubert Davis
350) Jon Scheyer

 

[Waquoit]

The only one you can even consider putting ahead of Hurley is Pitino.

 

[borninansonia]

We've had some time to settle down after the tourney. Weve also seen how coaches have done in the portal.

List in order, your opinion, the top ten coaches in college bball right now. The criteria is up to you.

*You dont have to put Todd Golden in there even though he won, if you think there are better coaches out there.

*You dont have to put Dan Hurley as #1 either.
I know we've done this is some form every year, but things change.

Geno is the top coach in college bball right now, perhaps ever.
Unless the OP meant "men's college bball.

 

[Jaydumo20]

Geno is the top coach in college bball right now, perhaps ever.
Unless the OP meant "men's college bball.

I did mean mens. The other would be too unfair. While we're on it, if the men find a way to win this year we will have another dual championship. Geno will have back to back titles- I don't see how anyone wins a game against this year's team.

 

[Jaydumo20]

The only one you can even consider putting ahead of Hurley is Pitino.

I put Pitino high on my list, but I sometimes wonder if we give him a little too much credit.
He's been a head coach for almost 50 years and he has 1 ring and a vacated ring (which i do count)
He did wonders for PC and Iona, for example (but the latter not enough to not get ultimately run out of the building by us in '23). He does raise dead programs back to life. I give that. And he got to the 3rd runner up game quite a bit.
He was "good" with the Knicks, below average with the Celtics.

Dans 7 years at UConn rivals Rick's whole career.

Im ready for the "is this a real post?" comments and the answer is, yes. I know "he's one of the greatest x's and o's coaches of our time" but he pales next to others who have coached for less time, in terms of major victories.
He's great but he needs to win 1 or 2 more and im not sure he will.

He's a genius at raising teams from the dead but he rarely makes them immortal. And I think that is a wider gap that "luck" doesn't explain.

 

[Waquoit]

He's a genius at raising teams from the dead but he rarely makes them immortal.

Only because he doesn't stick around. Taking PC to the Final Four is as impressive as winning a natty at Kentucky. Two titles at two schools and got the measure of JC at three. Made SJU a contender overnight. Was the first coach to truly use the 3-pointer as a weapon. He could be the best ever.

 

[rrskyjf]

Bill Self has done less with more talent than any other coach in recent years.

You mean Calipari also, correct?

 

[rrskyjf]

Only because he doesn't stick around. Taking PC to the Final Four is as impressive as winning a natty at Kentucky. Two titles at two schools and got the measure of JC at three. Made SJU a contender overnight. Was the first coach to truly use the 3-pointer as a weapon. He could be the best ever.

Also lost in overtime in 97 to Arizona, without an injured all american Derek Anderson. If he's healthy, he gets back to back titles.

 

[ucp990411]

Only because he doesn't stick around. Taking PC to the Final Four is as impressive as winning a natty at Kentucky. Two titles at two schools and got the measure of JC at three. Made SJU a contender overnight. Was the first coach to truly use the 3-pointer as a weapon. He could be the best ever.

Ever hear of John Wooden, Jim Calhoun, Dean Smith, Coach K, John Thompson, Bobby Knight and others?

 

[Lafayette]

Well it's in the Men's, but title asks for CBB coaches - Geno, Wooden, Hurley, Jim Calhoun, Coach K are my top 5

 

[Jaydumo20]

Only because he doesn't stick around. Taking PC to the Final Four is as impressive as winning a natty at Kentucky. Two titles at two schools and got the measure of JC at three. Made SJU a contender overnight. Was the first coach to truly use the 3-pointer as a weapon. He could be the best ever.

I do agree with all of this. I had a side convo with @boog204 and he said the same. But because of certain career missteps, we always have to frame it as "could be" the best ever. I know you didn't mean it that way, but that's how I view it.
If he stayed at Kentucky and continued to win past 96 he'd be easily in that convo- but he didn't and he hasn't. I have to look at his genius and his ability to transform programs right alongside his lack of meaningful hardware, which, I have to be real about, he did have equal opportunity to claim. Can we factor career decisions into the assessment of greatest coach? I think we have to. It's a lot of what subconsciously separates the 1A from the 1AA

 

[Bazz4A]

1. Red Autry

 

[RuffRuff]

1) Dan Hurley
2) Kelvin Sampson
3) Phil Sellers
4) Craig McDermott
5) Todd Golden
6 Rick Pitino
7) Nate Oats
8) Tommy Lloyd
9) Matt Painter
10) Tom Izzo
347) Steve Pikell
348) Red Autry
349) Hubert Davis
350) Jon Scheyer

Usually have to splice out recruiter vs coach.

For my money, I’d go:

1) Hurley
2) Sampson
3) Pitino
4) Oats
5) Golden
6) Painter
7) Few
8) McDermott
9) Pope
10) Izzo
11) Self (dropping fast)
12) Pearl
13) Barnes
14) Miller
15) Otzenberger