Who was your BE Coach of the year?

[redmen9194]

I think Mack is probably the best coach in the league. Built X while in the A-10 competing locally with Cincy in the Big East and OSU in the Big 10. Always has his teams perform and is a proven NCAA tourney coach. This season after losing some players got his team to a top 5 ranking and beat the number 1 team in the country. Not to mention undefeated in non-con. He should have been COY.

[XUFan09]

So the Scout.com Xavier reporter (https://twitter.com/musketeerreport) has a list for of who the coaches voted for and is going to reveal it on his podcast as they drop out of the tourney.

1. Wojo - Willard
- Press conference questioning made it sound like he thought X was too talented
2. Holtmann - Willard
- He also added that the JP dunk Macura ensured he would never vote for Mack
3. Leitao - Jay Wright
4. JT - Jay Wright

The comment about JP's dunk was Rick joking. Holtmann hasn't said anything about it.

To quote the previous podcast.

I don't know if JP Macura's dunk cost him the COY award or what. But lets make it clear, this is a definite snub. This is the BE Coaches telling Mack, "We don't like you."

Yeah, I know that quote too. Basically, anything you have heard or seen on Scout, I have too. It's much more joke than anything.

Now some other Big East coaches not liking Mack? That's a theory I could get behind. It's definitely possible that he's rubbed some the wrong way, which easily could unconsciously affect their voting decisions

[GumbyDamnit!]

I think Mack is probably the best coach in the league. Built X while in the A-10 competing locally with Cincy in the Big East and OSU in the Big 10. Always has his teams perform and is a proven NCAA tourney coach. This season after losing some players got his team to a top 5 ranking and beat the number 1 team in the country. Not to mention undefeated in non-con. He should have been COY.

Although that 1-6 record vs Jay Wright throws a bit of a cloud over your theory.

[JohnW22]

I think Mack is probably the best coach in the league. Built X while in the A-10 competing locally with Cincy in the Big East and OSU in the Big 10. Always has his teams perform and is a proven NCAA tourney coach. This season after losing some players got his team to a top 5 ranking and beat the number 1 team in the country. Not to mention undefeated in non-con. He should have been COY.

Although that 1-6 record vs Jay Wright throws a bit of a cloud over your theory.

Let us focus on the 1. The other 6 are anchient history

[Hall2012]

To me, the coach of the year award should go to the guy who gets the most out of his resources. Wright did a great job as usual, but with that wealth of talent and experience, I could've coached them to an at large bid. Same with Chris Mack, he did a great job but had a great mix of young talent and junior/senior leadership that any coach would love to have.

Coach Willard on the other hand, took a 7th place team that nearly everyone expected to take 2 steps backwards http://cbsprt.co/1LiUOfI after losing their top 2 minutes guys and leading scorer up to 3rd. Yes, he had (unproven) talent, but he did that with 1 player older than a sophomore receiving any sort of significant minutes and that guy wasn't even on the team last year.

I absolutely think Willard had more work to do to get his team where it is right now than either Wright or Mack. Especially if only conference play I taken into consideration, at which point everyone knew what Nova and X had, while many still expected the Hall to be neck and neck with St. John's and DePaul.

[GumbyDamnit!]

Well I guess Willard answered some of those X fan critics who said he couldn't hold Mack's jock.

Also not sure if anyone noticed that Coach Wright figured out a way to limit Dunn and Bentil to two combined field goals and 12 total points. Masterful jobs by the two BE COYs.

[DudeAnon]

Yea, I still think Mack deserved it based on the entire seasons Performance, but 2 ass whoopins by Seton Hall definitely makes it a harder argument lol

[BEX]

Mack still nat'l COY despite BE snub. Somebody got it right.

[stever20]

Mack still nat'l COY despite BE snub. Somebody got it right.

based on last night, looks like the BE Coaches did.

[BEX]

Soooooooo, 1 game for you? haha. Gooooooo UCONN! Back to the ack board.

"Despite losing the team's leading scorer, rebounder and point guard from a year ago, Mack guided the Musketeers to a 14-4 record in the Big East and a 26-4 mark overall that includes a victory over then-No. 1 ranked Villanova. The 26 victories tie a school record for most wins in a regular season. Xavier was the first team in the nation to post both 20 and 25 victories this season.

In seven seasons, the 46-year-old Mack has a 160-75 record and ranks second all-time in career victories. He has led Xavier to five NCAA Tournaments in six years."