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ChriJoll 13 years, 9 months ago.
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- Posted on: Fri, 10/19/2012 - 7:54am #43928
HitsterParticipantI know this might be a slightly random topic but with all the talk about Kentucky’s continued dominance of the college recruiting process, I wondered what are the chances of Coach Cal being elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame in due course?
I am basing this on UK continuing to be one of the NCAA’s top teams and them getting many more tournanment appearances over the coming years. Coach Cal is 53 now, so it would seem early to consider him for the HoF yet but a few year’s down the line would his achivements merit consideration.
The Basketball HoF has on occasion seemed to favour college coaches perhaps to try and assert it’s independence from the NBA. As only one of two coaches to have coached three different teams to Final 4 appearances, having won an NCAA tournament and made 13 NCAA tournament appearances, Coach Cal is building a resume to be a live HoF contender. However he has also prescided over two vacated seasons due to issues with Marcus Camby and then Derrick Rose. Could this count against him when his name does come up for HoF discussion and also when he was Nets coach, he never really had a great record so could his relative failure in the NBA also perhaps go against him.
What are people’s thoughts?
0 - Posted on: Fri, 10/19/2012 - 8:13am #721854
F_S mocki don’t know much about the history college basketball’s had with electing coaches to the HOF but to me…
cal is a lock. what he’s doing is historic… getting best classes full of one-and-done prospects at will. he just got 4 5-star prospects in two weeks and there is still talk about julius randle going there, even wiggins.
how long does it take some schools to get ONE 5-star prospect?
0 - Posted on: Fri, 10/19/2012 - 9:29am #721864
LeroyJenkinsParticipant" As only one of two coaches to have coached three different teams to Final 4 appearances"
they don’t exist actually in the record books0 - Posted on: Fri, 10/19/2012 - 9:30am #721865
LipstickParticipantWhat will keep him out? Investigations, enough said.
0 - Posted on: Fri, 10/19/2012 - 9:39am #721867
raybeasParticipantrecruiting HOF, he’d be in it.
He currently only has two Final Fours on his resume, from the past two seasons, due to using ineligible players at both UMass and Memphis. Two Final Fours and one title is a borderline HOF career to me. Considering the recruitment of Anthony Davis was called "among the dirtiest ever", and Nerlens Noel was only recently cleared to play at UK due to questions about eligibility, he may not get to keep those, and any he gets in the future either, pending further investigation.
I’m unsure if he’s a good coach or not, because he’s never had a team that you could say really overachieved. His UMass teams always had better talent than the rest of the A10. His Memphis teams had better talent than other CUSA teams. And since coming to UK he had nothing but top 3 recruiting classes. He’s had so many one-and-done players that it is difficult to see if players under him improve from year to year, or over many years.
I wouldn’t put him in a HOF for 8-10 years, just to see how clean his recruiting stays, and to see if he develops players, or just recruits them.
0- Posted on: Fri, 10/19/2012 - 11:35am #721880
ChriJollParticipantI don’t know about you but if you had told me UK would have been in the final four two years ago I would have called you crazy…
Enes Kanter ineligible left a terribly unknown Josh Harrelson patrolling the paint with the even less known Eloy Vargas the only real sub at the 5. They were a 4 seed in the tourney in the same bracket as a proclaimed unbeatable Ohio St. team. They definitely overachieved. To say anything else is ludicrous.
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