Funk and tourney success

[jay santos]

For the record, this thing where Funk and other Ute fans harp on the tourney success thing as the only important criteria in evaluating a team, program, coach, player, whatever is really really stupid and overstated.

Yeah, we get it. BYU has not had good tourney success lately. Utah has. It doesn't take away the importance of other measures such as overall record, head to head record, conference championships, national rankings.

Success in the tourney may be the most important of all those, but because it's a one game situation, there is a lot of randomness involved. Roy Williams looked like a bad coach for years because of tourney failures. Now he's an expert. I'd say the reason for the change is due more to luck and randomness than anything else.

Weber State obviously has not had a better program/players/coaches/teams, etc over the past 20 years than BYU, but they've had more tourney success.