Out of Bounds: The most overrated college coaches

Watching ESPN during this month you can't keep from hearing about March Madness, and really who would want to? But the one thing I hate about college basketball, and especially the tournament, is how crappy some of the coaches really are. 

If you're a casual fan you might think, "Well that team went 35-3, their coach must be good."

Wrong.  Wrong wrong wrong WRONG. 

This was never more evident then watching Kentucky, my National Championship pick, get ousted by a West Virginia team missing its starting point guard and running the same high screen play every freaking time. 

But we'll get to me ultra-bashing the great John Calipari in a few minutes, or possibly longer depending on your reading level. 

So in order to stick with the March Madness theme I'm going to talk about the four most overrated college coaches, which will be like the regions in the NCAA tournament ,and then I'll tell you what coach would be the number one seed in that region. 

So without further ado, let's get to it.

The Big Recruiter, Small Coaching Region

This is a coach who always has coached the top picks in the NBA draft.  He also only coaches them for one season and usually just relies on his NBA caliber player to do whatever without coaching at all. 

This coach almost never wins a National Championship. 

This coach's school may or may not get hit with penalties due to recruiting violations. 

I gave strong consideration to giving the No. 1 seed to Thad Matta for his give the ball to the star and clear out offense he ran with Greg Oden in 2006-07 and again this year with Evan Turner. 

But no the No. 1 seed in this region goes to the one, the only, Coach Calipari.  Derrick Rose, Tyreke Evans, DeMarcus Cousins and John Wall, all were recruited within a span of three years by Coach Cal. 

How many National Championships did they win in those three years? 

That would be zero. 

Instead of coaching those stars, he just lets them do their own thing.  

They run the give and go offense, give me the ball and go to hell.

The Stubborn, "I'm making no adjustments during this game no matter what" Region

The name is pretty much self explanatory for this region. 

This is the type of coach who thinks his gameplan is the only way to play, even when his team is getting blitzed or has trouble with one area of their play. 

There are many examples of this kind of coach this year.