[Hoot Gibson]

I've seen enough of your thinking in the political threads to not trust those, so I'll not warrant your thoughts on the matter as conclusive..... nicker:

Facts are, Coach K is the greatest coach of all time and he has done it with all levels of talent, even less talent than UMass had and certainly NO WHERE near the talent at Memphis or UK and he has done it in a dramatically better basketball conference than Cal has EVER coached in (and that is not even debatable)....:truestory:

The fact is Duke has produced more NBA draftees than either UMass or Memphis did while Calipari was there. Coach Cal had some great players, but he never had the kind of deep recruiting classes that Duke has had year in and year out. I have no doubt that Coach Cal could recruit just as well at Duke, North Carolina, or Indiana as he has done at Kentucky.

It is time to give Coach Cal some credit for his coaching ability. There is no way you could have watched the progress of last year's team and not been impressed with his coaching ability. Despite getting hammered in our debate about Wilt Chamberlain's undeniable ability, you are too smart not to admit that Calipari did a great job of coaching last season.

As for Coach K - having watched Butler play games in Hinkle Fieldhouse in person, and then watching Duke struggle past the Bulldogs in the NCAA finals three years ago, I don't see how anybody can say that he is the greatest college basketball coach of all time. John Wooden holds that distinction until somebody can at least approach his UCLA records, and I don't expect that will ever happen.