Well, let's see... (and yes, this is with a grain of salt too)

1) Winning back to back championships isn't hard when you manage to convince all your NBA-talent players to stay from a winner... VERY few coaches keep that kind of underclass talent around for an extra year.  We'll see how he does with them gone next year.

2) Ben Howland... did help build Pitt up, but it's not hard to get top-flight talent at UCLA, let's be honest.

3) Bill Self did turn around Illinois, but like Howland, it's not hard to get the talent in at Kansas, which has really been the only consistently good school in the Big 8/12.  Not to mention those 1st round bounce outs in the Big Dance from last year and the year before didn't help.

4) Billy Gillespie?!?!?!  Yes, obviously a homer pick.  We'll see how good A&M is next year without Law III, and being this far behind in UK recruiting isn't gonna be much help.

5) I don't know what it is, but something smells fishy about all those recruits Calipari is getting up there, but time will tell.

Now... saying Pitino's last 3 teams haven't been that good?!?!?!  Let's see, a Final 4 team in 2005, a down year due to injuries and losing underclass talent (see what I put for Donovan), and a tear down the stretch after a BAD start with a VERY young team, and that's bad?!?!?!  Take the blinders off. 

Bob Knight?  Still took a VERY bad Texas Tech team and rebuilt them, including a Sweet 16 run in 2005.

As for my other choices... Matta is a no-brainer, great recruiter and coach, Few's done a GREAT job of turning a tiny school from the plains of eastern Washington into a national player, and Bennett's turned the former laughingstock from the Palouse into a perennial Pac-10 contender.  Williams is on there for keeping Kansas and now UNC at a high level, and Kent should be on there for turning another former laughingstock into a Pac-10 contender.

Yep, at least within reason.  I've never ordered single malt scotch, just Johnny Walker Black. 

That's where Mirage falls down, though, as they don't have enough waitresses. 

BTW, as to smell of blood:  http://www.merginet.com/all_about_ems/workshop/EMSsmell.cfm 

 10/10!  I always do better on the ones that have no point value.

Don't see how a team is divided, and by the way, the QB isn't the only position that can have a leader.  That's a very common misconseption.

If you have two running backs, a speed guy and a power guy, you use the speed guy on outside carries and the power guy on dives.  If you have a hurry up offense QB and a basic offense QB, you should use them to their best ability.  As Herm Edwards says, "You play to win the game!"