[More Cowbell]

With the team that Tubby won it with, any coach could have coached them and they would have won it. Tubby didn't know how to coach in certain situations, but he didn't have to know how with the National Title team because they were that good.

Examples: the fact that Tubby had his players slow into a half court game when running on teams worked better, or how, in a tied game, he let his point guard run the clock down to 5 seconds before he started the offense, and the clock ran out before he could get a shot off (and, if it was the guard's fault, Tubby would have been yelling at him while he was standing there, but he wasn't because that's what Tubby told him to do).

That is just flat wrong. I don't see how you could say that the '98 team was so good they would've won no matter who the coach was. For one thing, not only were they not favored to win the title that year, they weren't even a #1 seed in their region. And who were all the ultra-talented players on that team? Padgett? Mohammed? Jammal Magloire has probably had the best NBA career of anyone on that team, and he played a very minor role. No, that team was won with a bunch of good, not great role players, who played above their heads under a hungry first-year coach. If you really look closely at the roster, that team had no business winning a championship.

Again, if you want to disparage Tubby's recruiting or his lack of Final Four appearances, that's fine. But you can't discredit his winning a national title, especially with a team that was not the most talented team that year.