[Observing]

I don't understand what makes you guys think Coach K is so great, he has been to 11 final fours and only won the title 4 times. We all know that coach K has got a pass with the NCAA. Let a UK player throw down a large chunk of cash for some fancy jewelry and the NCAA will have the Pinketon detective ageny in Lexington with shot guns and AK 47s. Jerry Tarkanian was probably as good a basketball mind and coach as anybody but the NCAA was on him like a Duck on a June Bug! He sued the NCAA too and they paid him $2.5 million. I don't know were you get Pitino is such a great Coach either? He won a title in 96' at UK but what about 95'??? Most of the guys on the 96' team were there in 95'. We all remember him not guarding the guy that inbounded the ball on the famous play in the 92' game. If you take a closer look at what Joe B Hall done at UK and you consider that he had only one or two players make impact type players in the NBA, his 3 final fours and one NCAA title look pretty strong. IMO be able to recruit is part of being a great coach. Some of these guys on here knocking Cal and Calling him a just a great recruiter would never knock Chuck Noll of the Steelers but hey he had truck load of Hall-of-fame players that he brought to the Steelers, and he was smart and a great coach for drafting them same as Cal is for bring in Davis and MKG and the rest of the Crew.

HJ, I have to say that while it takes a stone idiot to claim Cal isn't a good coach, it takes equal stupidity to claim K isn't. The point about only 4 titles in 11 FF's isn't such an indictment when you recognize the NCAA creampuffing their brackets that led to some of those FF appearances.
Duke has had some great teams, some worth NCAA champions, they
have also enjoyed some outrageous favoritism from the NCAA
seeding thru the years. Last year being one of the rare exceptions
when you couldn't see a blatant sandbagging of their region.

But all that aside, K does a hell of a job coaching his teams, and
they're always fundamentally sound. And even though the bias
is undeniable, he still had to drive his team to take advantage
of it, which he successfully did several times.