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Jerry Sloan has 0 championships.
Oh and FrontRunning Bobby Bowden and Joe Torre are on this list. yay. Didn't want to forget them.
How about some love for Mack Brown?
Jerry Sloan has 0 championships.
Mac Brown is a great recruiter, not a great coach.
Damn you Michael Jordan
I didn't forget him, I just don't think he was as good as Riley, Jackson or Pop.
And yeah he was so good his championship teams continued winning championships when he stepped down as coach.
Well, he was able to strongarm smaller market teams and raid them of talent and draftees due to the league rules at that time....stuff he wouldn't be able to do if he were coaching today.
Although he wasn't the coach, he also put together the following Celtics teams including some of the best in the 80s.
I don't think he's as good as the other 3 I mentioned. I think those 3 are better than he is which is why I mentioned them and not him.
No I'm not, I don't think he's as good as Phil, Riley or Pop.
He's not.
The other coaches won around 1 of the greatest players, he had two for his entire career and couldn't ever win. In fact they usually choked....and repeated choking comes back to the coach.
Yeah, Sloan only had Stockton and Malone together for 15 y ears or so...it's not like he ever had the talent to win a championship.
Recruiting is part of being a college coach. And believe you me, Mack Brown is a better preparation/development coach than a lot of people give him credit for. There are plenty of great recruiters that aren't the coaches that Mack is. Ron Zook comes to mind immediately. He's a fantastic recruiter (Urban Meyer's first national le was won with Zook's players), but he can't develop or prepare worth a . I just find it rediculous when people give the world of credit to Pete Carroll/Bob Stoops/Jim Tressel and then call dismiss Mack Brown as a "decent" or "pretty good" coach.
That being said, I don't think he deserves to be on the list for Top 50 coaches ever. I do think Augie Garrido and Jody Conradt deserve it though, it's just that their sports aren't nearly as covered (Geno Auriemma and Pat Summitt are exceptions, because they are highly recognizable, despite their sport's relative obscurity).
Mac Brown?!?! pfftttt..maybe if this list was limited to college football. He'd be in the top half of the forties.
The most ridiculous ranking is Bob Knight rated so high and Jimmy Johnson not being on the list makes it invalid. Absolutely absurd.
You are right about Jimmy Johnson, he won in college and in the nfl
Stockton actually performed relatively well during the playoffs. It was Malone who kept choking time and time again.
It's destiny, a person as revolting as Malone does not ever deserve a championship.
Back to the topic, Sloan, probably not as good a coach as Riley, Jackson or Pop, was still one of the best ever seen. His system allowed maximized the strengths of Stockton and Malone, and made them all time greats (I am convinced that either of the two would have been only regular all-stars under most other coaches). After those two retired/try to coattail to a championship, Sloan kept the Jazz afloat for a year, building around AK47, and then kept the winning going once they landed Deron Williams.
His X and Os are top-notch, always prepares his teams well. Not his fault that the supposedly greatest player he ever coached was a choker who can't deliver during crunch time.
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