Who really is Big XII Coach of the Year?

pourcyne

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Just read that the AP picked Self, and that's almost as ridiculous as Huggins.

No disrespect to Fred, but I'd give it to TCU's Trent Johnson. Despite the overall record, they pulled off some major coups this year.

Besides, I really like that guy's style. No screaming, no drama, no antics. Just class.

Anybody with me?
 

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Just read that the AP picked Self, and that's almost as ridiculous as Huggins.

No disrespect to Fred, but I'd give it to TCU's Trent Johnson. Despite the overall record, they pulled off some major coups this year.

Besides, I really like that guy's style. No screaming, no drama, no antics. Just class.

Anybody with me?

Probably not.
 

CyJack13

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What the hell is with some people on this board and Trent Johnson? He's not a good coach.
 

Cydkar

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Just read that the AP picked Self, and that's almost as ridiculous as Huggins.

No disrespect to Fred, but I'd give it to TCU's Trent Johnson. Despite the overall record, they pulled off some major coups this year.

Besides, I really like that guy's style. No screaming, no drama, no antics. Just class.

Anybody with me?

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Rick Barnes did some kind of coaching to end up with under 20 regular season wins with that line up. Give it to him.
 

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What the hell is with some people on this board and Trent Johnson? He's not a good coach.

They are recruiting well considering empty gym to hs gym and the only major teams with worse history are Nebraska and northwestern.
 

CyJack13

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I don't think he is a bad coach, but he has a long ways to go to be big 12 coach of the year.

He's 18-84 in conference play his last six seasons as a head coach, he's a lot closer to being a bad coach than a good one.
 

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It's Huggins. The coach of the team that finished 2nd to last is not and will never win coach of the year.
 

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I think OP is pulling for CPR to be coach of the year if we win 2 B12 games.
 

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Just read that the AP picked Self, and that's almost as ridiculous as Huggins.

No disrespect to Fred, but I'd give it to TCU's Trent Johnson. Despite the overall record, they pulled off some major coups this year.

Besides, I really like that guy's style. No screaming, no drama, no antics. Just class.

Anybody with me?

he is dead to me ever since he called us the Hawkeyes.
 

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He's the worst coach in the conference. He's laughably bad. Exhibit A: Ejim alley oop dunk. (YEA!). Ejim alley oop dunk #2 (YEAH HA HA!). Ejim alley oop dunk #3 (This guy is the worst coach I've ever seen!).
 

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Huggins for me.

Remember they lost Harris and Henderson, their 2nd and 3rd best player from last year to transferring (I think). A lot of people had them 7th or 8th in the conference and thought Staten would have to score 25 a game for them to have a chance. He completely changed the system from last year and exceeded expectations.

Drew is 2nd. He had to replace Jefferson, Heslip and Austin. I didn't think Gathers would be as good as he is and didn't expect Prince and Chery to step up either. He's gotten a lot better at X and O's then he was when he started.

I'd give bronze to Hoiberg. He had to replace 2 very good players in Ejim and Kane. I have him 3rd because there was still a lot of talent here with Niang and Morris.

If I had to rank how the coaches did this year, it would go like this.

1) Huggins
2) Drew
3) Hoiberg
4) Self (not as good as other Kansas teams, won the conference though)
5) Kruger (I think they did as good as they were suppose to)
6) Ford (He was a lot higher in the first half, the team collapsed a bit at the end)
7) Johnson (More competitive then last year)
8) Tubby (I thought they'd get 1 big 12 win, slightly exceeded expectations)
9) Barnes (Too much talent to be struggling like they are.)
10) Weber (Worst coach in the conference, especially at recruiting).
 
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