Best coaches to play for?

[GreatLakeState]

For white players. Off the top of my head ...

Roy Williams: Tyler Hansbrough will soon join other white first-round NBA
picks Kirk Hinrich, Nick Collison, Scott Pollard, Greg Ostertag, Rex Walters
(1/2 Japanese), Raef Lafrentz, Mark Randall.

Coach K: Three national championships, two of which featured white All-
Americans. First-round picks: Mark Alarie, Mike Dunleavy, JJ Redick,
Danny Ferry, Bobby Hurley, Christian Laettner, Cherokee Parks. However,
has also
squandered first-round talents like Shavlick Randolph and Chris Burgess.

Mark Few: Took Dan Monson's program to an even greater national
profile with lots of white starpower, Adam Morrison first and foremost.

Charlie Coles: I think he's the only college coach to have sent on two
furture NBA All-Stars, Dan Majerle and Wally Szczerbiak.

Bob Knight: Three national championships, with All-Americans like Kent
Benson and Steve Alford. Media used to say he was the only coach who
could win a national title with five white starters.

Lute Olson: Teams were whiter when the program was coming up in the
80s. Steve Kerr and Jud Buechler both had legit NBA careers, but weren't
first-round picks. Neither were Tom Tolbert or Luke Walton. Chase
Budinger,however, will be.

Billy Donovan: One white starter on national championship team. Jason
Williams and MIke Miller were first-round picks, and future recruiting
classes could bring more. Matt Bonner has also carved out a decent
career.

Lorenzo Romar: One of the hottest coaches in the country, has brought in
back-to-back white prep All-Americans in Jon Brockman and Spencer
Hawes. Ryan Appleby was Pac-10 newcomer of the year last season.

And a guy who will never make this list: John Calipari

 

[Jimmy Chitwood]

not on the list: Bobby Huggins.

 

[Colonel_Reb]

Dave Rose at BYU is another one too.

 

[GreatLakeState]

Yeah, Huggy Bear came to mind too. He has a few white guys sprinkled
in, but not a very white-friendly culture.

Who has Dave Rose sent to the league? And most whites are Christians,
not Mormons, so I don't think they would want to play at BYU.

 

[Jimmy Chitwood]

i had high hopes for Arkansas head coach John Pelphrey, but so far i am very disappointed...

he signed three white freshman last season, which is great. however, two of those frosh wasted an entire year for a few garbage minutes instead of redshirting and are transferring away from Arkansas. (the third, Michael Sanchez, redshirted last season, but draws rave reviews from the coaching staff. which means little, considering the coaching staff raved about the two transers, as well.)

Nate Rakestraw, a 6-4 lights-out shooting guard was hyped by Pelphrey to be a key contributor for the Razorbacks this season. however, Pelphrey wasted Rakestraw's whole freshman campaign: Nate appeared in 11 games this year and played a total of 33 minutes. this on a team in desperate need of shooters, Nate's specialty.

Levan Pasatsia, an athletic 6-6 wing from the Republic of Georgia and another sweet-shooting frosh, had his freshman campaign wasted for just 9 appearances and 19 minutes. this, again, on a team in desperate need of shooters, Levan's specialty.

i wish both of these gifted athletes the best of luck wherever they go.

before these two scholarships opened up, Pelphrey had already received 6 commitments for next season... only 1 from a white player.

there are dark days ahead for the Hogs, it seems.

Edited by: Jimmy Chitwood

 

[Riddlewire]

When Pelphrey was hired, I told my dad, "It's Nolan 2.0". I knew Pelphrey's system from South Alabama. His basketball philosophy was identical to Nolan's '40 Minutes of Hell'. During the summer, when Rake, Levan and Sanchez were given scholarships, I packed away my skepticism and allowed myself to hope that maybe he was different. Then the season came and Steven Hill became Persona Non Grata in Pelphrey's system. Despite his production per minute increasing, Pelphrey cut his playing time more and more as the season went on. That told me that I was right in the first place. Pelphrey wants street ballers who just run back and forth all game long. He'd be better off grabbing some guys from the track team. That's what his recruiting is going to look like from now on. Rotnei Clarke (our only white player next year after Cox quits) will be Pelphrey's version of Cannon Whitby. And the only reason the Hogs made it to the second round of the Tournament this year was because they were a very large, senior heavy team that was capable of overriding a well coached basketball squad like Indiana. But they should have done much better. I believe Stan Heath would've had his best season with these players. They would've gotten a higher seed and played deeper into the tournament. Pelphrey's system is old and discredited. That's why Nolan's empire crumbled. Everyone eventually figured out how to defeat it, since there's no intelligence behind it. Pelphrey better enjoy the accolades of this past season. He's going to be under fire from now on.

 

[DixieDestroyer]

My votes go to Coach Knight & Coach K. Both have had tremendous success with white superstars. I love the hardnose, disciplinarian that Bob Knight's always been. He never coddled any primadonnas or wet-nursed any "superstars", he'd tear into them in a New York minute. More kids today need that kind of old school discipline. He was demonized in the pantywaist MSM for been too harsh, but that's hogwash...he took no crap from those snotnose kids. He's up there with Adolph Rupp as one of the best ever!