Key Highlights
- It typically serves as a mea culpa.
- We’re sorry our preseason predictions about your team were wrong. In theory, it’s a straight line: the coach who oversaw the biggest turnaround is handed the award.
- In practice, it’s a yearly argument about expectations and whether we’re rewarding actual coaching or just the greatest surprise. But this year’s race is a little different.
- The pool of candidates is unusually deep.
- It’s been the season of turnarounds.
