Naismith National Coach of the Year

[tornado]

This particular COY award goes to John Calipari

http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory?id=4624348

I have no argument with this as everyone is entitled to their opinions, but.....

Many people had picked Memphis #1, and predicted them to win the National Championship, way back last fall,
based just on the fact that the guy had a team comprised of the best talent in college basketball.
Back in 1996, John Calipari won this award but it was when he did extremely well leading
UMass to the Final four with considerably less talent than some of the other teams had.

How do people feel about this? If the guy has the best talent, and if a lot of people rank them as the best team
and even pick them 6 months in advance as theteam most likely to win the National Championship based on talent,
and the guy doesn't even do as well as predicted, and loses to a lower seeded Kansas...
then could an argument be made that he "undercoached" them? Personally Calipari would have ranked behind Keno Davis,
Matt Painter, Rick Barnes, Sean Miller, and Bo Ryan in my judgement of who the best coaches were in 2007-2008.

[Da Coach]

He is the coach who assembled that talent as well as coached them, so I'd say he deserves the credit.

If he had just inherited a talented team it might be different.

[Lakeview Brave]

He is the coach who assembled that talent as well as coached them, so I'd say he deserves the credit.

If he had just inherited a talented team it might be different.

Agree, being a great college coach is about both recruiting and coaching.

[tornado]

Then give it to Bill Self

[Da Coach]

I believe the voting for this award took place before the Final Four.

Maybe if they waited until after the national champions were determined, they could just forego the voting and give it to the winner every year.

[tornado]

That's what it looks like these guys did, just looked at who had the fewest losses and gave it to them.
All the other Coach of the Year awards have gone to Keno, Pearl, Painter, and this is the only one I have seen go to Calipari.