re: Regarding the whole Bruce Pearl/Nate Oats comparison

Yea, and that’s what I pointed out. Yes, UAT won their 4 games to make it to the final four, but context needs to be taken into account how they got there. Also, Auburn should not have lost to Yale, but it did, that’s the beauty of the tournament. In saying that, just because Auburn flamed out in the first round and they went to the final 4 doesn’t mean they had a better season than Auburn. It literally means that they just won 4 games in a row against mostly average teams. It doesn’t erase what Auburn did in the season up to the NCAA. Again, most people who don’t follow basketball equate postseason success with overall season success, and by doing that, you’ll have a distorted perception of how your team did that year.

I mean, look at Coach K. He was at Duke for 40 years and won only 5 national titles. Does that mean Coach K was a bad coach or a failure? No. It’s just means it is way more difficult to win national titles in basketball than it is in football. But that doesn’t dilute his resume since most of those seasons were successes overall, they just didn’t win a title or go to the final 4 every year. Again, that’s my whole point of this thread, trying to say that UAT’s coach is better than Pearl when in reality and o objectively they are pretty much equal.