The Resume

(September 18, 1952- )
Coaches the University of Louisville (2001- )
Coached Boston University (1978-83), Providence College (1985-87), New York Knicks (1987-89), University of Kentucky (1989-97) and Boston Celtics (1997-2001)
Led Kentucky to NCAA Championship (1996)
Led teams to NCAA Final Four (1987, 1993, 1996, 1997)
Played at the University of Massachusetts (1971-74)
Wrote 'Success is a Choice'

Why he might be annoying:

He keeps switching between being a college hoops coach and a pro hoops coach.
He has a short fuse.
When he was a player at UMass, he broke the starting point guard's finger during a fight, suspending him for the rest of the season.
He spent the night of his honeymoon being interviewed for an assistant coach position.
He admitted that he took the Celtics job more for the $50 million contract they gave him than for the team.
As a Celtics coach/president, he made foolish draft choices and gave mediocre players huge contracts.
After being booed during a Celtics loss, he ranted: 'Larry Bird is not walking through that door, fans. Kevin McHale is not walking through that door, and Robert Parish is not walking through that door. And if you expect them to walk through that door, they're going to be gray and old.'
Many Kentucky Wildcats fans consider him a traitor for becoming the coach of the University of Louisville, their chief rival.

Why he might not be annoying:

He took a Kentucky team that was reeling from NCAA probation and made them a national power again.
He is the first coach to take three different teams to the Final Four.
Tubby Smith and Billy Donovan were assistant coaches under him who had their own coaching successes.
His son, Daniel, was just six months old when he died of heart failure (1987).
His best friend and brother-in-law, Bill Minardi, was killed in the World Trade Center during the September 11th terrorist attacks.
Despite his nomadic ways, he intends to finish his coaching career at Louisville.

Credit: Hoxy

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• 2007 Most Annoying 301-400 (Ranked: 306)
• Basketball Hall of Famers (Ranked: 2013)
• Basketball Players
• Bleacher Reports Top 10 Worst Sports Infidels [December 2009] (Ranked: 8)
• Boston Celtics
• Celebrities Born on the Same Date [September] (Ranked: 9181952)
• ESPN's Who's #1 Top 25 Flops of the ESPN Era (Ranked: 14)
• ESPY's Best Coach/Manager (Ranked: 2013)
• Hoxy's Profiles [Series 1]
• I am a Kentuckian
• I am an Adulterer
• I Attended University of Massachusetts
• I Come from Queens
• I Married in 1976
• I Was a Victim of Extortion/Blackmail
• Look at Me, Oh!
• Look at Me, Yes You! - Finger Pointers
• Look at My Tongue
• Mad Magazine's 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things [2009] (Ranked: 17)
• Male Cigar Smokers
• NCAA's Basketball Champion Coaches (Ranked: 2013)
• NCAA's Basketball Champion Coaches (Ranked: 1996)
• Profiles 11001-11250 (Ranked: 11209)
• Short Fuses
• Sport Coaches/Managers

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 25 Votes: 44.00% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 9 Votes: 77.78% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 9 Votes: 88.89% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 11 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 23 Votes: 52.17% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 6 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 6 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 62 Votes: 53.23% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 40 Votes: 45.00% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 27 Votes: 59.26% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 26 Votes: 73.08% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 16 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 79 Votes: 65.82% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 72 Votes: 70.83% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 85 Votes: 76.47% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 248 Votes: 76.21% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 161 Votes: 70.81% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 446 Votes: 69.51% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 2885 Votes: 68.11% Annoying