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NCAA Basketball: 5 most underwhelming coaching jobs so far in 2020-21

By Elliott Geller

BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA - FEBRUARY 08: Head coach Archie Miller of the Indiana Hoosiers reacts after a play in the game against the Purdue Boilermakers at Assembly Hall on February 08, 2020 in Bloomington, Indiana. (Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images)
BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA - FEBRUARY 08: Head coach Archie Miller of the Indiana Hoosiers reacts after a play in the game against the Purdue Boilermakers at Assembly Hall on February 08, 2020 in Bloomington, Indiana. (Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images) /
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It’s not easy to have sustained success as an NCAA Basketball head coach. Quite frankly, it’s extremely difficult. While knit-picking and criticizing ‘your team’, people forget in the grand scheme of things, the opponent on the other side of the floor is trying to win too.

I look for three things when evaluating a coach within his program. The longevity of his tenure, how success, but also, how adversity is handled, and what you do with the amount of talent around you. There is nothing I appreciate more when a team does more with less.

That being said, many coaches seem to get a pass and have numerous excuses made for them. As much as I enjoy a team defying the odds, I can’t stand an announcing team forcing an untrue narrative about a coach who is underperforming. It’s been done time and time again, but I would just like to see them call it how it is.

Now it’s all about perspective, so I’m sure I’m missing a ton of coaches who fall in line with this underwhelming stigma. This year is definitely a bit outlier-ish with the pandemic, so there will be certain excuses given. They’re also guys who are struggling like Penny Hardaway, but I think it’s only fair to give him a pass since he hasn’t even been at Memphis for a full three years, to go along with the James Wiseman debacle last year.

The five coaches on my list all have some type of concern for me from my prior pinpoints.

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