National Championship Pick

Calipari = Overrated? Yes. Cal is one of the (if not the) greatest recruiters ever. As an on-the-court guy, decision maker? You’ll find better in D-II threesI. His teams have always had the same weaknesses (can’t shoot free throws, have problems with zones, seems to have a limit of two bigs per team) and the next time Calipari makes a halftime adjustment will be the first (Plan B for him is “Do Plan A harder”).

Calipari has the stats, but will ANYONE – not named “Dick Vitale” – put him in their top 10 all-time? Top 20?

And why is neither coach given even a scintilla of credit for what they accompish during the regular season and conference tournaments

And this is the byproduct of the NCAA tournament. Mouthbreathin, trollin’ bloggers judge “success” by the events of a one-and-done tournament. As anyone who’s played basketball before knows, anything can happen in one game. For purposes of this post, a Derek Rose made free throw is the difference between the “choker/fraud” label, and Cal being a good March coach (or whatever that means).

It’s silly and stupid, but I’d doubt you could change TBL’s mind about anything. Guy’s incredibly stubborn. Here’s a perfect example of why this is so mind-numblingly retarded. Case in point: Billy Donovan.

After losing to Michigan State in the NCAA final in 2000, Donovan didn’t lead Florida past the first weekend of the tournament for FIVE consecutive seasons.

ChokeFRAUD, right?

Well, he won the next two NCAA championships. But I’m sure pre-2006, by the above “logic” (used quite loosely) that TBL would absolutely say that Billy Donovan has “a history of choking in March.”

If Mario chalmers misses a 3, cal has a title at Memphis and this post is never written about him. But he made it, and now Cal gets the choker label from you. Mario chalmers didnt make cal a lesser coach. Nor does david tyree making a crazy catch make belichick a lesser coach. Your logic is absurd.

If I read this post correctly… Merely making it to the post season and then losing a playoff or tournament game in which you were favored warrants the fraud/”choke” label. If im not mistaken, belichick’s last 3 playoff losses were games he was favored to win. Giants, ravens, giants.

what a choker.

Great point. If only making it to the elite 8 is considered fraudy/choking, what does that make losing 2 AFC championship games?

Calipari hasn’t won squat

You just summed up why the casual fan thinks CBB has the biggest waste of time of a regular season in existence…if only blogs existed when Dean Smith was coaching, dude would have been considered the fraudiest fraud who ever frauded

Boeheim, on the other hand…

So I guess Bill belichick has a history of choking in the super bowl?

What is that connection to Boeheim/Calipari?

Do you really feel that Boeheim and Cal coach differently in March/April due to the pressure?

Good question. One trip beyond the S16 in the last 15 years for Boeheim. Syracuse fans talk about this all the time.

Calipari hasn’t won squat despite having great, loaded teams. I believe in the last 5 seasons that Mike is referring to, UK was a favorite in all of those losses. Cal’s had his share of letdowns.

By Calipari standards, you’d have to assume that Young Jason would consider Rex Ryan (and Mark Sanchez) massive frauds.

So… Boeheim should just recruit a bunch of scrubs every year? This is honestly worse than the bill self drivel last year.

So I guess Bill belichick has a history of choking in the super bowl?