Whos your college basketball Coach of the Year now?

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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.
 
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(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.

So if Conneticut or Duke or any of the number 1 seeds won or favorites won, their coaches would b coaches of the year?
 
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(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?
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.
 
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(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.

We all know teams like Duke and UConn have the best talent and go to the tournament every year and do well, so when i team with less talent performs better, and in GMU's case with severely less talent from a no body conference, obviously the coach has done something good.
 
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two separate animals....tourney vs. regular season....anyone who wins the tourney should be the MVP of the tourney....no quesitons asked.

but coy should go to the guy who has the best regular season, based on all the different factors involved.....like this year, had TN been it's normal self, i'd vote for Roy Williams...to do what he did after losing all that talent last year....very nice. but when you compare what he did this year with the, young but full of McD's all americian, talent he has vs. what BP had, based on last year's results, no comparison.
 
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#11
I'd still go with my boy Bruce Pearl, but Jim Larranga and LSU's coach are making things interesting
 
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1st thing you have to do is establish what guidelines you go by. There are probably 10 coaches that have done an outstanding job within their own program for different reasons.
 
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(vols kick balls @ Mar 28 said:
or got lucky and in this case extremely lucky


um I seriously doubt you can even call it luck. you dont get to the final four on luck. You actually have to play the games. they went through michigan st, unc, wsu, and uconn. thats not luck. they are well coached and a talented team. luck has nothing to do with it anymore.
 
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Bruce Pearl. Williams had all star recruits filling in their lost players. Bruce had a team that has less talent then last year and totally turned them around.
 
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I think Billy Donovan deserves some consideration. The Gators, like the Vols, weren't on anybody's list to do anything. Not in the Top 25 (I saw today they were actually #42 in the voting). They weren't in bracketology, just like UT. But Donovan has coached the utterly inexperienced Gators into a Final Four team and he ought to be mentioned, at least.
 
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Brady should not be considered for Coach of the year...take away either Big Baby or Tyrus Thomas and they have a losing record in the SEC...you could say that about Pearl/Lofton also...I look at what Brady had last year and what he didn't do.
 
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In Order
1. Bruce Pearl
2. Jim Larranaga
3. Billy Donovan
4. John Brady
5. Roy Williams
 
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(West Columbia Gamecock @ Mar 28 said:
Can we get Dave Odom on the "Honorable Mention" list?

We won't even pass gas in his general direction.
 
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#25
HM sure but still being the King of the NIT won't get you much more than that
 

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