Today, I look at the offensive four factors for coaches in the SEC, Big East, and Big 12. For returning coaches, I take each coach’s average performance with his current team. For new hires, I take the average performance with the previous team. Finally, I rank BCS coaches from 1 to 74 in each category.

Our short term memory tends to remember Florida’s poor shooting in 2010, and average shooting in 2011, and think Billy Donovan is not an offensive mastermind. But that is a mistake. No active BCS coach has had a higher eFG% than the Gators headman. His team’s eFG% was so far off the charts from 2003-2009, that two seasons of average shooting have not knocked him from the top spot. And he brings in an extremely talented shooter in freshman Brad Beal next season.

Despite forcing a lot of turnovers, Mike Anderson’s teams do not get rattled by the chaos. His teams almost never turn the ball over. And Cuonzo Martin’s teams are also very careful with the basketball.

Want a contrast in styles? Mike Brey and John Thompson III seem to run similar systems. Both use a perimeter oriented attack. But JT III’s take a lot more risks to get easy looks around the basket. Those risks raise JT III’s TO%, but also significantly raise his eFG%. In fact, despite running completely different offensive sets, Jim Boeheim’s teams come much closer to resembling JT III’s teams. The Syracuse coach also tolerates turnovers to get easy buckets inside.

Multiple Big East coaches are great at teaching offensive rebounding, including newcomer Ed Cooley. Interestingly, despite leading a guard-oriented attack last year, Providence was quite proficient at getting offensive rebounds last year. So Cooley’s offensive principles may translate well to the Friars.

And do not overlook the ability of Steve Lavin, Buzz Williams, and Jim Calhoun to teach their players to get to the line.

Bob Huggins has a reputation for developing players into great offensive rebounders, and his assistants have followed in his footsteps. While Huggins West Virginia teams have been 6^th in offensive rebounding, Andy Kennedy’s Mississippi teams are 19^th, Mick Cronin’s Cincinnati teams are 11^th, and Frank Martin’s Kansas St. teams are 1^st.

Meanwhile, Bill Self’s former assistant Billy Gillispie knows the high-low offense and he was able to developing Patrick Patterson into a star at Kentucky while getting the Wildcats to shoot a high percentage. But Gillispie’s Kentucky teams turned the ball over at such a horrific rate, that his overall offensive numbers look horrible.