Bruce Pearl is a better basketball coach than Kevin O'Neill

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LawVol13 said:
If you get a head job in the NBA, you're an elite tactician.
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O'Neill didn't even make it through the season before he was fired.That shows how much you know about elite tactitions.His head coaching experience was horrible.Good god the hatevol minions keep showing their ignorance
 
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LawVol13 said:
The USC job is a good job. The Arizona gig is a fantastic job. The Toronto Raptors is a job that about 95+% of coaches in the NCAA would take. I'm not saying he's the best coach of all time, but you're kidding yourself if you think he isn't solid.
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Arizona was just a one year gig and he was sub .500 in conference play. I would be shocked if 50% of NCAA coaches would want to take the Raptors job! College coaches are turning down NBA jobs more and more every year.
 
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HendersonVol said:
If south gets us a free throw from the final 4, I'm going down.
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Dont be senseless. Our draw couldn't have been better and MSU was gift wrapped without their best player. We gagged.
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LawVol13 said:
Bo Ryan is an absolute Hell of a coach. If I remember correctly, Bruce's best players in his Sweet 16 year were Redshirt Seniors that Bo Ryan recruited. Pearl need a nice job, but Ryan gets some credit for that as well.
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McCants was their best player and was a senior that didn't play until Bruce got there and averaged 17 ppg.

Tucker didn't do anything until Pearl got there.

So pretty much you have a team that couldn't do anything until Pearl was their coach, and you give credit to Bo Ryan.

I guess Buzz was the one that brought TN out of the dumpster then since he had Lofton, Watson, Smith, etc... here.
 
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BigPapaVol said:
Dont be senseless. Our draw couldn't have been better and MSU was gift wrapped without their best player. We gagged.
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O'Neill must have had some horrible draws in his day.

I haven't said Bruce is the best coach in the country. I have said he's better than O'Neill.
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tigervol9802 said:
The team won 34 games in the 5 years prior to Ryan taking over. He won 29 in two.

If you can't respect that then I've got nothing to say.
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Yet, it got them nothing more than a 4th place finish. Yet, when Bruce came and brought about as different of a style as you can, all of a sudden you are saying Bo Ryan recruited players were more suited for Pearl's offense rather than his own.
 
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UT IE 95 said:
HatNation member. Can't spell the coach's name, yet defends him to the end.
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Thanks for your input. Actually, I'm trying to work and check out threads during lax times. Sorry about the spelling. I can't spell, but at least I know something about basketball and coaching. That's certainly more than I can say about you. Keep to the spell check mode, that's about all you are good for.
 
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HendersonVol said:
Clearly beating the Texas, Kansas, and memphises of the world when they are at the top mean nothing to you.
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Sure they do, but they aren't difference makers. Regular season OOC wins are nice, but generally mean little. They don't validate Pearl's coaching in the slightest to me.
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HendersonVol said:
O'Neill must have had some horrible draws in his day.

I haven't said Bruce is the best coach in the country. I have said he's better than O'Neill.
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A game to win and need of a coach for the week, there is no way to justify taking Pearl.
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tigervol9802 said:
Obviously Bo Ryan is a hack of a coach hat. How dare you suggest othewise.
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When has anyone suggested Bo Ryan was a hack. However, if you are going to give him credit for bringing UWM back (with players that didn't even play until Pearl got there) then you need to say Buzz brought back TN.
 
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BigPapaVol said:
Sure they do, but they aren't difference makers. Regular season OOC wins are nice, but generally mean little. They don't validate Pearl's coaching in the slightest to me.
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What could possibly validate it? Occasionally making a NCAA tournament and promptly losing in the 1st round? Winning 5 games in your 3rd season at a job?
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HendersonVol said:
What could possibly validate it? Occasionally making a NCAA tournament and promptly losing in the 1st round? Winning 5 games in your 3rd season at a job?
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Obviously what validates a coach is:

1. Getting an NBA job with a team that has a history of pathetic coaching and personnel moves.

2. Being 205-207 with one Sweet 16.

That's what it takes, just deal with it :)
 
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tvols75 said:
When has anyone suggested Bo Ryan was a hack. However, if you are going to give him credit for bringing UWM back (with players that didn't even play until Pearl got there) then you need to say Buzz brought back TN.
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Back from what? A team that had won 20+ games 4 straight seasons and made the tournament 4 straight seasons with a blithering idiot as head coeach when he took over to a team that averaged 15 wins a year for 4 years?

Good grief. That's ridiculous to even compare the two.
 
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HendersonVol said:
He never won anything close to what pearl has. He didn't win at Oregon or UNC Asheville either. Pearl has won at every stop.
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I'm not the biggest Green fan, but the stats say:

Green did have a winning record at Oregon (72-70), UNC-A (150 - 108), and UT.

Green's record at UT (4 years): 89-36 (.712 win %)
- 1 Eastern Div title
- 1 SEC Regular season title
- NCAA appearance every year he was here

Pearl's record at UT (6 years): 145 - 60 (.707 win %)
- 2 Eastern Div titles
- 1 SEC Regular season title
- NCAA appearance every year he was here

Bruce does have a tendency to get about 1 game further in the NCAA tourney each year before getting bounced. Otherwise they are pretty close.
 
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BigPapaVol said:
Stomped a couple mudholes in Pearl.
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So now Bruce Pearl is a better coach than Billy Donovan, since we are going to base head to head stats.

Want me to go into the coaches in the Pac-10 that have a better head to head record than O'Neill?
 
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