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[QUOTE="Waltdods, post: 2544610, member: 2932"]
I gotta say I think the pro-Boeheim pendulum has swung a wee bit far in the last ten days.  He's a great coach.  I agree that he's a top-10 guy all time.  I was arguing that two weeks ago when people wanted to fire him.  But he's not the greatest coach of all time.  Syracuse is on a great run in the tournament right now, but so is Loyola Chicago.

Just on K - K and Boeheim took over pretty similar programs - Duke had had a great three-year run immediately before K started but before that hadn't gone better than 14-12 in 7 seasons.  Since then K's won 5 championships, and JB's won 1.  And basically every other stat you can imagine is going to favor him too.  Yes, he's getting better players, but there's not something automatic about that with Duke - it's because he's built the program as he has.

To my, reluctant, eyes, it's almost impossible to argue against Calhoun as the top of the list.  What he did with that program is remarkable.  Izzo's taking a lot of shots right now, many highly deserved, but his record in the aggregate looks better than JB's too and it's hard to say he's getting significantly better players than SU.  Pitino too - if Louisville was getting better players, that's because of Pitino not something automatic to that school.
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