Coaching is difficult to evaluate as you suggest although over time, the best evaluator is your won loss record unless you are coaching in Bangor Maine. Coach is less than 2 years from a historic 16-0 IL season after a rocky non-conference performance. His team came back from double digits against Notre Dame at the big dance with a final shot from Cannady bouncing off the rim. Is the Tigers slow start a function of not getting the most out of his players or is it a function of a young team with growing pains other than the best four players on the floor? Time will tell.
**Tigers and Mitch honored Coach Martelli for his 10 year leadership of Coaches for Cancer -- class act. A number of St. Joe graduates were sitting behind the Tiger bench and in front of our family. After acting "that way", my wife asked me why? I shared with her where they came from and she immediately understood.