Under Review: It's Unbelievable That Brad Underwood Is Still Underrated

It feels like just yesterday that we hired Brad Underwood away from OK State and now fast forward to August 28th, 2024 and he's got just as many top 10 wins as Rick Pitino. That doesn't seem or feel right based purely on longevity reasons alone. Pitino was cutting nylon at Kentucky before Brad Underwood was changing diapers. But this is what the statistics say and they certainly can't be wrong. They're statistics. 

Obviously I'm baited here into shitting on Danny Hurley but I'll save that for next March when the sting of a 30-0 run finally starts to numb. For now just know Danny Hurley is on my master list of pieces of shit that I would gladly eat for breakfast lunch and dinner if it meant a Final 4. I have no problem eating Danny Hurley in that case whatsoever. 

CHEW ME LIKE A FUCKIN MAN - Coach Hurley 

Truthfully they're both great coaches. I just had no idea Underwood was so much more dominant. 

Another couple things: 

- Surprised no Coach K. He's usually at the top of these things. 

- Jim Boheim once killed a guy, for real

- John Chaney was undefeated against top-10 teams at Temple

- Bill Self only plays overrated Big 12 teams which is partially true. But more importantly I suppose is that a friend of mine played for Bill Self and Bruce Weber. He described the difference as Bruce would ask you about class and your mother. Bill wanted to know who slept with the most girls that week. Makes sense at 30,000 feet when you consider NIL and players not playing that much defense as they did when your dad was coming up in life. 

- "No Sean Miller" would have surprised me a couple years ago 

- Matt Painter makes his team run the mile every fall. A lot of you reading this cannot run a mile. Just saying. 

- I would love to spend a year on John Calipari's staff. Of all the staffs in America you have to imagine that one has the best locker room culture/history/hooker traditions. 

- Bruce Pearl is basically Big Pussy from Sopranos. I understand he's one of the boys but you can't wear a wire and ask me to forget about it. 

- Again, not trying to pick a fight here, just saying Danny Hurley should've been higher on the list. 

PS - Happy Birthday to my oldest brother Brian. He's a huge Illini fan and would love to know Brad Underwood fucking rocks at beating top 10 teams. Shoutout older brothers everywhere.