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[QUOTE="NKR1978, post: 180256, member: 186"]
It's hard and meaningless to measure the all-time greats. But in reality, how many are there? 
 
I think K and Calhoun and 1 and 1a. 
Dean Smith with all his Final Fours and Bobby Knight are 2 and 2a. 
I guess Wooden would have to be there for his win streak and championships. 
 
Those are pretty much the top 5 ever, and I don't think there's a legitimate argument against that, but it would be fun to have one. Roy Williams and Tom Izzo will likely join that group when their careers are all said and done. 
 
So Kentucky has Rupp. Rupp was winning NCAA tournaments in an era when you had to win a game or two to be the NCAA champion and where the NIT was probably the better tournament. The SEC was always awful so he had no competition there. So who exactly was he playing? I doubt he scheduled the northeastern powers at the time because they were integrated. How much did he really accomplish? If a team played Rupp's schedule today, it would be laughed at. 
 
Boeheim is in the next group with Pitino, Crum, Thompson, Tark and Donovan. I think he's probably in the top 8-12 range of all the people in history that has done his job. And while the lack of Sweet 16 success is a fair criticism when you're trying to compare with Calhoun/Smith/K/Knight - but there really aren't that many guys that two runners up and a national championship compares poorly to. 
 
Seriously, there are a lot of great coaches that JB's resume blows away: Gary Williams, Keady, Carnaseca, Eddie Sutton, Norm Stewart, Rollie, Ray Meyer, among many more.
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