Fran McCaffery and Ben Jacobson are better Tourney coaches

[Bjorn]

According to Athlon Sports. I knew they were incompetent.

https://athlonsports.com/college-basketball/who-are-best-coaches-2015-ncaa-tournament

 

[mj4cy]

And Gregg Marshall coming in high with a losing record....


Wow one final four and people think Wichita State is the next best thing since sliced bread.

 

[mj4cy]

Also, I'd argue our biggest win wasn't over Notre Dame, it was over UNC without having the hottest player in the nation at the time last year.

 

[bawbie]

They've gotta be trolling us...

 

[MeanDean]

First 10 or 15 kinda make sense. After that it's more or less just a list of coaches with records and some factoids. No real analysis.

 

[jsb]

well holy hell. Now I've read everything.

We we played uconn as an 8/9 and killed them. We played nd as a 10 and slaughtered them. We almost beat the two seed that year.

 

[DeftOne]

That is possibly the dumbest list I've ever seen.

 

[ChiClones]

That was some of the stupidest reasoning I've read for those ranks. Basically, the longer you coach, the higher your rank. How do you have a losing NCAA record and be considered good?

 

[VeloClone]

 

[BallSoHard4Cy]

Couple things there:
1. We were the 10 seed and Notre Dame was the 7 seed

and 2. The best win was over 6 seed North Carolina to get to the Sweet 16 last year which included losing one of the best players from a 7 player rotation

that is awful.

 

[djcubby]

I've never picked up an Athlon magazine, and this doesn't do anything to change that. My four year old son could have rated them better than that garbage.

 

[Cyclonefan710]

Holy mother of god... that list is just awful. How is our best win not over UNC without our best player?

 

[cyhiphopp]

I like the one for the #20 coach, McKillop at Davidson. 3-7 record. His only three wins were with Steph Curry during one elite eight run.


Sounds more like Steph Curry had a really great year rather than McKillop is a transcendent tourney coach for just one year.


These guys ride the short bus.



20. Bob McKillop, Davidson (3-7)
His three NCAA wins were during a Stephen Curry-led run to the Elite Eight in 2008, but ask Marquette, Louisville or Ohio State if they want to see a No. 13 or 14 seed Davidson in the first round.
- See more at: https://athlonsports.com/college-ba...hes-2015-ncaa-tournament#sthash.fnMfNxpD.dpuf

 

[swarthmoreCY]

And Bill Self is a bad coach due to only making it to the second round in a year he had the top 2 draft picks.

Nuts. If it were not for bad luck, Fred would have 3 or 4 more NCAA wins IMO. I was really hoping Iowa got the 8/9 opposite UK. That 11-12 squad with Royce would kill this Iowa team or Davidson, and be 50/50 against Gonzaga imo

 

[cyclonedave25]

Who gets paid to write this garbage? I should become a freelancer, you can suck and still get paid.

 

[mj4cy]

this might be tied with lotion happy kermit for funniest gif of all time.

 

[mcdrier]

That is funny stuff..I will take CFH over all those guys.

 

[mj4cy]

Stick to football, Athlon.....stick to football.

 

[ExCYted1]

Anybody close to Fred or people on twitter please send this to Fred. WTF kind of garbage site puts Barnes and Franny over Hoiberg, my god

 

[Cycsk]

Doesn't Fran need to make the tournament to be considered for a list of best tournament coaches? Siena shouldn't count. Note that it doesn't mention the choke in last year's play-in game . . . the highlight of Fran's tournament experience with EIU.

By putting Fran right ahead of Fred, they have to be trolling us.