ESPN's ACC Big Monday Lineup...Boring
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Well, pre-Roy, UNC was Gutheridge and Doherty, so they really weren't. They were Dean Smith before that, but not easy to replace one legend with another. They were lucky to get a homemade guy who succeeded at KU first in Roy. Louisville wasn't as good pre-Pitino. The Krum years were certainly solid, but Pitino is irreplaceable. Duke IS Coach K. Can't come close to replacing that. Nearly impossible. Same goes for Boeheim. Truth is that there isn't many guys out there that have done what the "old guard" did. Very few guys will get that type of longevity at one program therefore hard to build that type of gravitas by jumping around.
All of these program will have an extremely hard time finding replacements that will placate their respective fan bases. Everybody will be compared to the guy they replaced and they are a few programs who are not far behind ucla with ridiculous expectations of what their program should be doing. Easier said than done, so we'll see what happens after they are all gone.
Guthridge made two final fours in 3 years at UNC, including a few weeks before he was fired. He was fine. Doherty, well anyone can make a mistake, though few that big. No one is great every year. By your calculationss there are no great programs, just great coaches. Who knows, that might be true. All of these programs, besides Syracuse, will have no problem getting the biggest coach they want to come and take over their programs. And Syracuse could do it if they weren't committed to hiring from within. It all depends on the commitment of the administration and the athletic department/boosters.
That's kinda my point though Austour. You state "no problem getting the biggest coach they want to come and take over their programs". But in truth, who are those guys? These are the last of the Mohegans in terms of real royalty in college ball. Ucla fired a good coach in Howland, and Alford is the new best thing? Those coaches truly made their programs. Time will tell who the new royalty will be, but the playing field is greatly leveled when the blue bloo
We just lost Jim Calhoun and Gary Williams to retirement. Majerus to the grave. We'll soon lose Coach K, Boeheim, Izzo, Coach K, Roy Williams, Huggins, Calipari Pitino, Beilein etc. Next 5-10 year's and we will be losing the best that college basketball maybe ever had to offer in terms of sheer number of massively successful coaches. Those programs can have all the money in the world, but the best they'll be getting is a Sean Miller or Buzz Williams. The guard is changing.
I did say your supposition might be true so yes, I knew that was your point. I will say that the reasons there won't be more Calhoun's, K's, Izzo's, etc... or at least far fewer is that some of the guys you mentioned would have been fired in today's enviroment before they ever got their name on the Marquis others would have jumped to new jobs after their first smell of success. Times have changed but money buying talent and the best coaches hasn't so most of those programs will be fine.
PS it's Mohicans
PS it's Mohicans
I did say your supposition might be true so yes, I knew that was your point. I will say that the reasons there won't be more Calhoun's, K's, Izzo's, etc... or at least far fewer is that some of the guys you mentioned would have been fired in today's enviroment before they ever got their name on the Marquis others would have jumped to new jobs after their first smell of success. Times have changed but money buying talent and the best coaches hasn't so most of those programs will be fine.
PS it's Mohicans
http://www.mohegan.nsn.us/.
The movie was Mohicans, but it was incorrect. There aren't any Mohicans. Technically you are correct about the movie title but further clarification needed.
"Cooper named a principal character Uncas, after a well-known Mohegan sachem (a head chief) who had been an ally of the English in 17th-century Connecticut. By using this name, Cooper seemed to confuse the Mohegan with the Mahican, a tribe historically based in New York along the Hudson River, closer to the central Mohawk Valley territory he also wrote about."
Florida / Kentucky will probably pit the two highest ranked teams against each other if this year's group of freshmen phenoms perform more like the group from 2 years ago than Last Year's Model but really, who GAF about SEC basketball beyond those two, which lessens the interest level.