No it’s not. Knights other years are still way better. He wasn’t .500 in conference. His style is very much Archie. He doesn’t sound like anything Dolson quoted. If he brings the season he had this year to Bloomington you all would want his head on a platter. 6 game losing streak and all. Especially since he would be getting 5 mill plus.
Just to add a bit to your discussion: When Coach Beard was a very hot commodity two years ago, I seem to recall it mentioned that he was divorced, but still very involved with his children. Things may have changed, but the rationale then was that he wasn't going to be leaving Texas as long as his kids were still living at home. Conventional wisdom then said that the only move he was likely to make in the near future would be to the University of Texas if Coach Smart faltered.
I think every coach would like the talent assembled on those mid-90's Kentucky teams.
Joke, he'd run nearly the same crap AM did, get similar shooting and effort and BTW Kaufman is going to PU. What are you smoking?
If we had Beard we would have Kaufman btw you are one of the most uninformed posters here.
Is reliance on having better athletes than each of your opponents a sustainable strategy? Eventually a coach has to figure out how to minimize your weakness and expose your opponents. The cerebral side of sports is what makes competition fun from my perspective. Lots of coaches can "out athlete you". Few can win with coaching. I think Stevens and Beard have shown that they can win even with the less impressive team athletically or on paper. Rewatch the 87 team and you'll see that they didn't have the athletes to win several of those games but the game strategy and out thinking the opponents was what made Knights teams fun to root for.
