Apparently you had trouble reading my post, as I didn't call any of those coaches "over achievers". I will bold what I said about the coaches I listed again, since you missed it the first time. Now having said that, getting Georgia and/or Ole Miss to the tournament at all is "doing more with less", especially when you look at their recruiting/talent.Hop said:_lefraud_ said:Hop said:Who are the SEC coaches that do more with less?Double Diamond said:
Has anyone seen what the top of the SEC is doing? So Kennedy keeps up with fringe top 100 types and lower level transfers? Call me doubtful this works. I'm not saying the team needs one and dones, but it's pretty much proven with this coach that much higher talent is all that works.
That's kind of tough to answer generally speaking, because no coach does more with less consistently, but coaches who have done more with less for a given season include:
Pearl, Barnes, Wade, Drew, Kennedy (before fired), Fox (before fired), Frank and Conzuo, Anderson
When has Kennedy EVER done more with less?
I didn't say Kennedy did more with less. I challenged your implication that other SEC coaches do more with less. And I am amazed at your list. A coach that just got fired with the SEC player of the Year with a .551 overall record and ZERO NCAA Tourney wins in nine years is on your list of overachievers? Another fired SEC coach on your list that had ONE NCAA Tourney win and one play-in game win in 12 years. He had two all-SEC players in recent years (Moody, Henderson).
Pearl? The man that has been bringing in 5-stars left and right to Auburn and hasn't won an NCAA Tourney game? Wade? He had a losing SEC record in his first season in the SEC. He's grabbing 4 and 5-stars this offseason so that argument can never be made. Drew and his 12-20 record and overall losing record despite inheriting talent in his first season? I mean, this is so ridiculous it's not even in the realm of legitimate argument.
Will Wade went 8-10 in his first year at LSU, which was good enough to finish ONE game behind Billy Kennedy, and actually included a sweep of Billy Kennedy. The same LSU program that went 2-16 the year prior.
Bryce Drew made the NCAA tournament in his first year, and had 3 wins over Billy Kennedy (with less talent).
Bruce Pearl DID win a tournament game this year, but i guess you missed that too. Pearl shared the regular season championship, and did so without a couple of those highly touted recruits you mentioned. He has signed ONE five star in four classes. But if you don't think he did more with less this year, than I'm not sure what to tell you. Because he had a lot less than several other coaches, like Calipari and Kennedy to name a few.