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GatorMcKlusky
ChiefGritty said:
All of the B1G coaches, including Brad, are revoltingly reverential to Izzo. As are all the reporters.

Izzo is a great coach without question, but Nick Saban accomplished twice as much and was still well understood to be a miserable curmudgeon. Why Izzo gets to the Mayor of Basketballtown is beyond me.
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Nothing seems to stick to Michigan State. Scandal after scandal and it all washes away rather quickly.
 
#229      
BretMyBeachHouse
hooraybeer said:
tough for UM. also, man did IU miss out on their potential golden goose. love pointing that out again
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I suppose. But don't you suppose that IU fans are thinking that May would have left them so he was only a short term solution? Of course, if that's their first title in 40 years, well worth it. But that's not likely.

The question is whether a top 10 finish with an elite 8 or FF finish by IU, with May at the helm, would have been enough to send May to the NBA.
 
#232      
ChiefGritty
mattcoldagelli said:
I think you've gotta be a pretty good strategist/game manager/X and Os guy, which is what helps keep the players happy.
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The connection between those two things is an excellent point.

mattcoldagelli said:
Also, I get that we're on a college sports board, but the constant state of shock that a basketball professional would eagerly pursue the chance to work at the highest level of basketball in the world is kind of silly.
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True, but there's just something kind of irrelevant about NBA coaches these days. It's such a same-y, player-directed style of play now.

Mike Malone, Joe Mazzula, Mark Daigneault and Mike Brown are your last four NBA Champion coaches. None of those guys are meaningful figures in the game the way, say, Dan Hurley is.
 
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