Sure, it's just 5-10% of the season but game 1 and game 40 are not weighted equally.
Simply put, to have a sustainable coaching career at a P5 level, you need to have postseason success. That doesn't mean you have to win it all or have a team capable of winning it all every year, but you do need to be able to at least play at, if not better than your tourney seed along with your regular season success.
I'm still waiting on my lifetime free court side seats. Once delivered, I'll cut him some slack if he only gets to the elite eight some years.
Mark Few has made 2 Final Fours in 24 years. It's hard to win a bunch of games in a row in the tournament. Lot of luck involved. We ran into some buzz saws and had some bad games at bad times. 8 seed Loyola that was a top 10 KenPom. 5 seed Houston who was a top 5 Kenpom team. An 8 seed Arkansas team with multiple first round picks. Frazier had a couple of his worst games ever in the tourney. Ayo and Kofi were terrible vs Loyola. It happens sometimes, but I do agree if we don't see some more postseason success he probably will be on the hot seat.
That's true but even just a long 6'10 or 6'11 ish player with some bounce that can protect the rim defensively and just be a rim runner.
Wooden won his championships when only conference champs were invited to the tournament. He retired right as the field expanded to include at large bids. (1975) Smith and Knight only won one each in a format that resembles the gauntlet teams face now. (Over 60 teams)
I'm not sure how much randomness the move to 68 from 32 introduced wrt. winning the tournament. 90% (89%?) of the winners since the expansion had a #3 seed or better. (65% seeded #1) These teams have a 92% win rate in the first round. (.99, .93, .86) If one only looks at the #1 and #2 seeds, one of them wins the tournament 80% of the time. They have 13 first round losses in 38 years. i.e. In 2 years out of 3, the first round has no impact on the #1 and #2 seeds.
You still have K but I think what confirms the point @21ChampaignSt is making is that nobody talks about Boeheim in that group, despite being the winningest coach in men’s basketball history (everyone was cheating, stop it). And he even has a title.
Not sure that winning 6 games in a row would qualify as a "fluke". A one game stunner that resulted from a crazy set of events is a fluke. Someone, please correct me if I'm wrong, but Michigan was a #3 seed that year and had multiple NBA players on their roster, most notably Glen Rice. They won 30 games that year.
I was there then ... i remember one of their stars was Glen (stick) Vidnovic who was 6'8" and maybe 180. we had some high scoring games with them.Iowa's ineptitude at winning Big 10 MBB regular season championships is also quite impressive.
Their last shared title was a three-way tie in 1979 and their last outright title was more than a half century ago (1970).
You make great points and I agree with most. It's the weighted part that I'm not sure that I'm in full agreement with. For us last year, without games 4 and 9(UCLA and Texas), there is no game 32. A loss in game 1(Eastern Illinois ) and it's a true 50/50 whether we get to 32. You know what I mean? Without those two games last season, the criticism of him would be at a frenzy. Not getting into the second weekend is bothersome(obviously), however each win/loss does carry the same weight, one just ends the season, so it's more dramatic. Every team, but one, ends their season with a loss. It's the fun, yet harsh realities of a one and done.
They were better than their seed, but we were still the better team and it was a terrible loss. A golden opportunity blown.
That's a real stretch to go that far. That's a Loyola team that got beat the very next game to a #12 seeded Oregon State squad.
We were outcoached in that game. Happens but don’t want to fire BU for it. Rather enjoy the victories on our way to a title than relive one loss.
Taxable, yes. Deductible, no. The IRS is actually the mastermind behind NIL.
I mean the spread was 7 points. Obviously "should" have won that game but it's not like we were favored by 15.
