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I really do not understand your point. I do agree that Rick is a better coach then Tubby. Anytime you take over for someone, you are primarily playing with their recruits. What I was stating was that Tubby was not left with a loaded deck as four key players from the previous runner-up team left early or graduated. A previous poster posted that he took over a team that was loaded and should have won the national championship with any coach. In good ole fashion terms, that is bulls@#t.

Hmm, Tubby was left with a roster that had 7 players that
were good enough to at some point get SOME time on NBA
rosters. Had a couple of eventual first round draft picks, played
9 deep, some of whom had played in 2 title games, and most of whom
had the experience of going against starters from 2 title games
in practice for 2 years. Yep, that cupboard was pretty bare.

And I never said the SHOULD have won, I said that 100+
other coaches COULD have coached them to a title. In
the final analysis when you factor depth and experience
with overall talent, they should have been a slight favorite
for the title, not the heavy favorite the '97 team was,
and certainly not the prohibitive favorite '96 was. In other
words a team that had as good or better chance to win
than most any other team. and a team that with an
off night could have been eliminated.

And I'm not maintaining that Tubby did nothing, just
that Tubby did nothing that MANY other coaches could not
have, And that Tubby proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that he
could NOT assemble and coach a team to that level on his own.