don't get it. His teams always fold in big games. He has never been to a FF, he plays lousy competition and like today just cannot win any big games. I do not want him anywhere near Carolina as a possible coach EVER!!
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Everyone loves Mark Few as a coach, and I
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I like how he recruits - while Roy was signing Joel James Few went international with Karnowski - that guy is HUGE!
Sabonis is also a super stud - I expect to see him last just one more year of college.
The Zags did blow it down the stretch - but what Heels fan can't empathise with that this year?
Sabonis is also a super stud - I expect to see him last just one more year of college.
The Zags did blow it down the stretch - but what Heels fan can't empathise with that this year?
He's coaching at Gonzaga...
He's at a huge handicap compared to other coaches at elite programs. If he ever got to coach at a UNC, Dook or Kansas I think he'd do great
He's at a huge handicap compared to other coaches at elite programs. If he ever got to coach at a UNC, Dook or Kansas I think he'd do great
Same old story with Gonzaga. And though I hate they lost to Duke, it was predicatable. Gonzaga had the easiest run to round of 8 available. But as usual the first time they actually run into a decent team in the tournament they get beat. A little different from playing that soft schedule in high school type gyms all winter. But always everybody's bracket surprise to win it all. The point guard for example. Yea, the one everyone raved about who seems to be trying to look like Fonzie. He looked pretty pedestrian today when he finally ran up against a team that actually plays defense. Hate they didn't have the moxie to beat Duke, but I never really gave them a chance. Kudos to CBS. They knew what they were doing when they put Duke in the easiest region out there to give them the best possible shot to get them against Kentucky.
Playing a 16, 8, the toughest #5, and one of the toughest #2 seeds in the tournament is NOT an easy region. Perhaps Kentucky and Wisconsin had a little tougher road, but not much.
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The seeds in that region were weak though. Gonzaga was arguably the worst 2 seed and Utah was overrated as well once they played tough teams. I was there when my AZ Cats beat them by 20
Utah losing by 6 to a #1 all of a sudden makes them overrated? What about the 2 #5 seeds that didn't make the sweet 16 (both of which were exposed and blown out by the #4 seeds in their region)? And it's not like Utah got smacked like West Virginia did.
Gonzaga did more as a #2 seed than Kansas or Virginia this tournament, not as much as Zona did though.
Gonzaga did more as a #2 seed than Kansas or Virginia this tournament, not as much as Zona did though.
few put gonzaga on the map.
he's not getting the 5 stars and they are usually competitive.
he's turned down some good schools so i think he stays where he is as long as he wants.
not much of a prediction though.
he's not getting the 5 stars and they are usually competitive.
he's turned down some good schools so i think he stays where he is as long as he wants.
not much of a prediction though.
It's pretty much that "less with more" stuff that makes him a good coach and he was coach though most of Gonzaga's Cinderella run and turned them into regular season top-10 team. Then guys like Brad Stevens (Butler) and Shaka Smart (VCU) ended up 1-uping him by making the Final 4 (and in Stevens case, back-to-back title games and an epic shot away from an NC in one of them).
Thats more of a testament to Dook than Utah. They finished their season horribly, lost to Oregon in the Pac 12 semis and like i said earlier lost at Arizona by 20. Virginia was a very elite team all year, they happened to run into a team that plays a similar style against a coach in Izzo who runs the system better than Bennett. No shame in that.
Few has done wonders for the Zags program and has brought in some very good talent. However, he has never ever beaten an elite blue blood team, EXCEPT for 1. And I'll let you guesss what team that was. Other than that, he has gone 0-fer against top 10 teams over his career. One thing he has gotta do is play top tier team in OOC games to give his team experience in playing against that kind of talent. Going up against the likes of Santa Clara can't possibly prepare them for a team like Duke or KY.
Totally agree. But like we said, he's coaching a small Catholic school in the middle of Spokane, Washington. He's kind of handcuffed. Even if they played in the Pac 12 the only elite team he would be playing is Arizona and sometimes UCLA, and they usually play Arizona OOC already anyways
Pretty much every lost by 20 at Arizona so I don't think that's worth pointing out. I know Gonzaga made it close but fell short in Arizona. Agreed that Utah finish the regular season looking like crap. Can't believe Washington killed them in the last game of the regular season and then the lost to Oregon (granted it was a buzzer beater).
Wished Virginia would have made a bigger run in the tournament. I was surprised that they lost to Michigan State but for their sake, at least Sparty is in the final 4 and Izzo usually knows what he's doing during this month.
Wished Virginia would have made a bigger run in the tournament. I was surprised that they lost to Michigan State but for their sake, at least Sparty is in the final 4 and Izzo usually knows what he's doing during this month.
On this board we have people making the case that UNC can expect to lose in double digits and not win the ACC or reach the FF until such time as ole Roy is able to recruit better. That means, in effect, that their position is unless Roy has 10 McDonald's Alll-Americans, at least half of which are bound for the NBA's 1st round draft, then no way can UNC win big.
Exactly how many HS All-Americnas go to Gonzaga? Ever? I think the only top recruit, as in receiveing even 3 or 4 definite offers from winning programs in a Major conference, that Gonzaga has signed is Austin Daye. Abpout 9 or 10 years ago, Few also signed a WF from CO, who had a offer from Colorado. A huge deal was made of the fact that Gonzaga had outrecruited the worst basketball program in Big 8 history, which also usually rotted in the Big 12, for 1 player, whose orher top offers were from non-Major conference programs.
If Roy and Few had been forced to switch teams this past summer, Roy going to Gonzaga and Few to Chapel Hill, I think Roy's Zags would have lost anywhere from 2 to 4 more games (largely because Roy is an ideologue coach and could not adjust well to lacking the pieces to play out his ideology) and that Few's Tar Heels might have won another 2 or 3 games - precisely bcause Few is not an ideologue coach, which means he does not try to force things, that he adjusts and shifts based on what he has available.
To UVa's defense though, they just haven't been the same team since Anderson broke his wrist then had an appendectomy.
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