I think it's safe to assume that the postseason is where the true level of a coach emerges. Lots of teams don't have the schedules and/or conferences to prove themselves in the regular season. And in addition to that many of the best coaches can sleepwalk their way through the regular season knowing that they've got a decent seed already wrapped up but bring the best once things really matter in the postseason.

So who exposes themselves as a fraud more than anybody else once the games really mean something? I'll go ahead and nominate myself as that coach.

My NT resume is below. I'd argue that nobody finds a way to choke the way I do season in, season out.

Season	W-L	RPI	Postseason Wins
25	19-10	47	0
26	22-6	19	0
28	21-10	37	1
29	27-4	4	1
31	17-11	31	0
32	21-10	26	1
33	27-6	11	3
34	21-8	2	1
35	18-12	33	1
36	26-6	3	2
37	30-2	1	2
38	22-10	9	2
39	25-6	3*	1
AVERAGE	22.8-7.8	17.4	1.2

* Season 39 still running and RPI will for sure end up worse than it currently is.

Haven't you won two NC?

I was going to say> I coudl swear I remember somethign about you winning a title.

Looking at your profile, two of them, actually.

I nominate myself. Well over 100 seasons of HD, I finally made back to back Sweet 16's for the 1st time this year, and have only gone to the Elite Eight once.

Yeah .... but the championships are in another world. In this world, I'm terrible.

Tongue in cheek post mostly. But I find it pretty amusing that I've been the #1 or #2 RPI going into the tourney 5 times and haven't yet got past the Sweet 16. And 3 of those 5 times I couldn't escape round 2.

Not to mention a few other decent teams (going by RPI at least) that had super early exits as well.

I gotta put myself up for nomination, but we mostly end up in the N(orthwestern) Invitational Tournament instead of ever making the big show.

I'll nominate myself. Under achampa1, dahoss88, and bomberball, I've made some NT's, including a few Sweet 16's, but only once have I made it to a Final Four, and it was with a D3 team I picked up and only spent one season with (St. Olaf in Phelan).

mlastko is up there as well for futility...even with all the best programs

Quote: Originally posted by diablo11 on 1/25/2010mlastko is up there as well for futility...even with all the best programs

I'd vote for you, except you'd actually have to make the postseason to be bad at coaching there.

Settle down Mel Gibson....we don't all cherry pick like you BYU Hawaii

Clearly you have room to talk about Cherry Picking, since you do it so well yourself.

Second best thing you do, behind destroying programs.

It's the second best thing you do behind throwing out offensive statements about people's cultures

Quote: Originally Posted By diablo11 on 1/25/2010It's the second best thing you do behind throwing out offensive statements about people's culture

trouble in hell?

Quote: Originally Posted By diablo11 on 1/25/2010It's the second best thing you do behind throwing out offensive statements about people's culture

nice work.