They're at different schools with different levels of resources.
Muss has 2 elite 8 appearances in the last 4 years including one where they played championship winning Baylor as well as anyone in the tournament.
Hoiberg has taken some time to turn around Nebraska but he's flat out one of the best offensive coaches in the country. What he did at Iowa state after a decade of incompetence was incredible. They were terrible before him and after him.
Izzo I'm weighing his past accomplishments. Hasn't been great since COVID but did have a sweet 16 last year and was incredible for decades until COVID.
Gard inherited a powerhouse from Bo Ryan and has done nothing but be mediocre. Even the year with Johnny Davis they didn't really feel dangerous.
Those are all fair points.
My feelings would be:
Muss did great in the tourney and great on the recruiting trail at Arkansas, but his results in the heat of the coaching chess match of the conference season lagged, and now he's in a totally new (and maybe worse?) situation.
Izzo looks to be cooked. An all-time great but cooked.
Hoiberg did great at ISU back in the stone age when he had the transfer portal all to himself, not really relevant anymore. At Nebraska he was circling the drain for years and hasn't done anything yet that Tim Miles didn't. I want more than one year of this and I'm skeptical I will get it with Tominaga gone.
Gard, like Painter, like BU, has a history of floating up the conference standings when you get into league play when everyone knows and has scouted everybody else. That's the ultimate place in which coaching quality reveals itself IMHO.
I quote the standings because I think the data supports those conclusions. But all kinds of changes are coming this offseason and these guys are all going to do battle, and when we have new data, the rankings should and will change to reflect that. The pecking order can change faster than ever now in CBB, which is a big reason why BU is handling the portal the way he is.
