Twitter was a buzz today as the Big Ten released their conference awards… randomly though Twitter at 12:15 in the afternoon. And while Chris Collins was awarded the sole Big Ten Coach Of The Year chosen by the coaches and media panel; the Associated Press let out their own selection and awarded Matt Painter Co-Big Ten Coach Of The Year alongside Collins.
I may have let my bias show initially on why I thought Matt Painter deserved the honors. Hey, can you blame me? I’m a Purdue fan through and through. But I can also be objective (even if it takes me a few hours) to step back and look at why I think the AP got it right in awarding this to both coaches.