Coach K- .766 career win%
Roy Williams- .774
Bob Knight- .710
Dean Smith- .776
Adolph Rupp- .822
John Calipari- .759
Bill Self- .769
Lute Olson- .737
Jerry Tarkanian- .784
Rick Pitino- .710
Mark Few- .836
Tom Izzo- .710
John Wooden .804
great college basketball coaches win 70%-80% of their games, for decades at a time. that’s what they do. i struggle to name another sport on the planet where the head coach is as important and has big of an impact on winning as college basketball. there’s no other sport where the best coaches reach the top of their sport in their early 40’s and then stay there (at 1-2 programs) until they retire in their late 60’s, if not later. this is the one sport where a great coach simply = decades of success.
i mean if there is one lesson that everyone here should have taken from a lifetime of watching Barnes and Beard vs Shaka, RT, Penders, Weltich, etc is that coaching matters more than talent does at this level. beard with shaka’s last team wins the league and goes to the final four. shaka with beard’s first team is out in round 1 of the NIT with lots of guys transferring out. one guy made his team way less than the sum of its parts, the other did the opposite.
in summation, the post that i quoted is one of the most irrefutably false statements ever posted here. it’s the exact opposite of reality. wild, wacky stuff.