Lax Touchstone Award coach of the year

[billhoward]

I was thinking, did Connor Buczek get shafted and not win the Morris Touchstone Award as the D1 men's coach of the year? Because I heard nothing about the 2025 award. But ...

This is a USILA award and like Paul Masson ("We will sell no wine before its time" ), they don't rush things. ND's Kevin Corrigan won back to back COTY awards the last two years but it was announced around Thanksgiving.

Paul Masson wine kept slipping in reputation in the current century. (Lawrence M. Fisher, NYT 1990:  "While many consumers know them - who can forget Orson Welles's breathy incantation of 'We will sell no wine before its time' for Masson - they lack cachet." )

Cornell has won 5 COTY awards, better than  Hopkins, Navy, Penn, Maryland (4 each): Richie Moran 1971, 1987, Dave Pietremala 2000, Jeff Tambroni 2009.

Orson Welles 1978-81 Paul Masson ad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSs6DcA6dFI