(hatvol96 @ Mar 28 said:I don't take the postseason into account, so my answer is still Bruce Pearl. If we're going to consider the tournament, whoever wins should automatically be the COY winner.
Why not? If you're going to use a single elimination tournament as a factor in the award, that seems to take all of the ambiguity out of it. For example, Jim Larranaga's team has, I think, 6 losses this year, 5 of them to teams that didn't make the NCAA tournament. So, outside of a four game winning streak in the NCAA Tournament, what claim would he have? Giving the award to the championship coach removes all doubt.(ttrogvol @ Mar 28 said:So if Conneticut or Duke or any of the number 1 seeds won or favorites won, their coaches would b coaches of the year?
(hatvol96 @ Mar 28 said:Why not? If you're going to use a single elimination tournament as a factor in the award, that seems to take all of the ambiguity out of it. For example, Jim Larranaga's team has, I think, 6 losses this year, 5 of them to teams that didn't make the NCAA tournament. So, outside of a four game winning streak in the NCAA Tournament, what claim would he have? Giving the award to the championship coach removes all doubt.
(vols kick balls @ Mar 28 said:or got lucky and in this case extremely lucky