What a coach does

I guess if you had to break down the job of a college basketball head coach, it would be in three major parts: recruiting, teaching the game, game management. (There is also the administrative management of the department, but that is not as visible.) Personally, I like the coaches that teach the game. Their players know how to play - play the right way. These days there is a handful of coaches who really don't have to do very much coaching since they have a revolving door of NBA talent moving through each year. There are others, however, who rarely get five-star talent, but who keep the kids for three or four years, and mold them into consummate players in their particular system. They teach.