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Most will mention only one Final 4….they usually follow this up by saying “and it was with Pitino’s kids.” While the second part of that argument is silly (Edwards, Sheppard, Mills, Evans, Padgett were not exactly the recruits that changed the face of America….plus no one says Roy Williams won with “Doherty’s kids”), the first is not. Coach K….nope….Williams….nope….Olson….nope….Calhoun….nope….Izzo will never leave Michigan his home state….Pitino….burned that bridge….Donovan….not after the national championship….Self…nope…..Weber….likely not….Huggins….we dont want him. Next year’s team will be an improvement from last year’s and the 08 team will be one of the nation’s best. The 1997–98 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team were coached by Tubby Smith.
Smith, 55, has spent the last 10 seasons at Kentucky, one of the nation’s most storied programs, and won the national title in 1998. And ultimately the reason why will be Tubby Smith. The case for Tubby is simply this….in the new world of college basketball, Tubby Smith is a top tier coach who has succeeded while representing the University in the best possible light. Minnesota was 9-22 and lost to Michigan 49-40 in the opening round of the Big Ten tournament. I dont think we need the best of the best and I sometimes think Tubby does better with recruits like Fitch and Daniels or Meeks and Jasper, than the top names. A Pitino career at Louisville that included one Final 8, no other Sweet 16s and two NIT berths would be considered by many a failure. To me, there is enough seriousness in life that sports need not be part of it. Last year was the first year he didnt win an SEC regular season or tournament title. Smith resigned Thursday as the University of Kentucky basketball coach to take the reins of the ailing Minnesota program.

The Kentucky basketball twitter account sent some love to Smith on his birthday, and the account Not Jerry Tipton pointed out some of the coach’s finest moments during his time at Kentucky along with some highlights. We use cookies and other technologies to customize your experience, perform analytics and deliver personalized advertising on our sites, apps and newsletters and across the Internet based on your interests. And I am sure others can do the same in reverse. Life was great, too, with Smith guiding the Wildcats to the national title in his first season. Tubby makes the Final 4. But they didnt…they did the Final 4….and Tubby has only made it once. For every positive statistic about Tubby (more 20 win seasons in a row than any Kentucky coach), there is a negative (more 10 loss seasons), and more often than not these statistics have explanations that are different than the merits of the arguments they are used to buffer (teams play more games now and the SEC is a better conference than it was during Rupp/Hall years). For me, Tubby is a great coach because for his nine years as coach of the Wildcats, the team has entered the NCAA Tournament with a legitimate chance to win it five times (98, 99, 03, 04, 05). Under Tubby, the Cats had the best conference regular season IN THE HISTORY OF THE SCHOOL. Smith has been a Division I head coach since 1991, making 18 NCAA tournament appearances -- including 14 straight from 1994 to 2007. In that next tier you can rank people as you wish, but the career accomplishments are similar. Thus if you are only truly looking at coaching ability, regular seasons are likely the best indicator….and Tubby has had an amazing run in recent regular seasons. Now some of that is due to the SEC being a weaker conference than some of the other conferences….but Tubby Smith does play a hard non-conference schedule and the Kentucky out of conference schedule is usually ranked in the top 10.

Tubby Smith is a very good coach.

Thus when the NCAA Tournament starts, over half of Tubby’s years you could truly believe that Kentucky could win it. But despite winning five Southeastern Conference titles and reaching the final eight at the NCAA Tournament four times, Smith always seemed under fire for not winning enough. Read that phrase again. Former Kentucky head coach Tubby Smith turns 69 years old on Tuesday.The Kentucky basketball twitter account sent some love to Smith on his birthday, and the account Not Jerry Tipton pointed out some of the coach’s finest moments during his time at Kentucky along with some highlights.Happy birthday to Tubby Smith, the only UK coach to ever win the SEC Tournament and NCAA Tournament in the same year, the only UK coach to win a title in his first season, and the only UK coach to ever erase a 17 point deficit to Duke in the 1998 Elite 8.Smith is currently the head coach at his alma mater, High Point University. No….these games were decided….at least to some degree, by randomness. I agree with what Mike says but I dont think that it is just the fact that these folks are anti-Tubby that makes them difficult to understand. I think that is a legitimate question. By clicking “I agree” below, you consent to the use by us and our third-party partners of cookies and data gathered from your use of our platforms.
No one has disappointed more in the tourney than Few…..Matta can recruit….but besides his great Xavier run a few years ago, he is still an unknown quantity. University of Kentucky Basketball, Football, and Recruiting news brought to you in the most ridiculous manner possible.Birthday brownies are in order for one of the BBN’s own. “If I … We rely on readers like you to uphold a free press. https://fanbuzz.com/college-basketball/uk-basketball-greatest-coaches University of Kentucky head coach Tubby Smith reacts to a referee's call during the closing moment of the second half against Mississippi State University in their … Qubein was a senior at High Point when Smith was a … I do. University of Kentucky head coach Tubby Smith reacts to a referee's call during the closing moment of the second half against Mississippi State University in their NCAA Southeastern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament game at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia March 9, 2007.

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