Posted by rogelio on 7/15/2016 11:39:00 AM (view original):
Posted by CoachWard95 on 7/14/2016 5:52:00 PM (view original):
I am going to set goals in my 10 season tenured and it first starts with my first ever conference tourney championship! I would like to accomplish it as soon as possible. In my 10 season tenured here at Miles do I accomplish a A+ perstige or not? If I make the national tourney every season is that possible or the pti to say atleast? It shouldn't take 10 seasons to rewrite my record on here so I am going to start on that ASAP.
I have to go through Flordia Gulf Coast to get my first ever championship. Its been a hard long journey of 7 months no postseason play and no experience in the post season. I expect to change that immeditely, so the question is what team should I focus on building a ATH DEF team? What formations I should run during my tenured at Miles? If I should change it up every 4 years to be unperdictable? Should I build a pure scoring fest team? A per def team? Should I build my bigs lineup and expolit the inside on sims?
Thanks for the input everything is deeply appreciated.
Winning the CT gets you nothing, except into the NT. Prestige, at D2, means little except to limit which recruits you "see" or can pull down. So, ignore it. Building a team that consistently gets to the Sweet 16 is always the goal. Why? Because the lowers your cost to play to near $0. Therefore, your goals should be as follows:
- Get to the NT every season.
- On average, win 2 NT games each season.
How do you do that?
- You don't need to "build an ATH DEF team". However, you do need to understand that guys that are weak, cannot jump, and have no interest in moving their feet on defense are liabilities. There I said it. So, Rescind the scholarships of Mims & Anderson...immediately!
- However, revising my statement from the other thread, hang on to Morris until the cycle before the signings start. If you are doing well in recruiting, then cut him just before the signings start. If you are struggling, or you find a very good Junior guard that you want to sign and start, then keep Morris.
- Understand that I am only refraining from telling you to cut Liebowitz because he is a senior and it wont benefit you to cut him.
- After you cut Mims & Anderson, notice that your team has good IQ in Man and a minimum of C- in Press! So, you may be able to run press/man at the end of games when you are behind. In no way should you switch to zone or press (full time). Triangle & Man is fine.
- Starting lineup Guard: a guy not yet on your team; Guard: Spratt; SF: Dietz; Post: Frantz & Cave. Note: depending on your opponent you can flip Frantz & Cave between C & PF. Likewise with Spratt & the guy not yet on your team at the guard spots.
- In recruiting, the one must-have is that starting guard and developmental post player. You get to offer the guard a start and 25 minutes! The post player probably only 15 minutes.
- Prefer walk-ons to recruits that can't help you. With 5 seniors graduating, you want 1 walkon. Don't ask why, just do it. So, if you have 2 openings and cut only the 2 I mentioned at the start, then you only want the Starting Guard, Developmental Post player and 1 other (possible redshirt or ineligible).
- Scheduling for next season, do not schedule more than 2 or 3 human-coached teams for next season. Miles will need wins more than SOS.
Circling back, at D3, a coach can overwhelm other teams by just building an ATH/DEF/ FT monster. At D2, you are better off just putting a floor on ATH & DEF for the recruits you target and building a mix of players that do different things for you by position. Think of it as just not allowing too much of a gap between your player's ATH rating and your opponent's. No need to ignore everything else, but a guy like Mims 34/16 is just not a D2 player. That's a D3 contributor...but not one you really want.
So, this is my lineup!!!!
pg: Sg: Sf: Pf: C:
1. S.Spratt 1. none 1. R.Dietz 1. P.Cave 1. R.Frantz
2. E.Spinella 2. T.Morris ?! 2. R. Kacerski 2. V.Liebowtiz 2. V. Liebowtiz
3. none 3. R.Dietz 3. P.Cave 3. R.Dietz 3. P.Cave
4. none 4. none 4. none 4. R.Frantz 4. none
So my question is since T.Morris is low on potential do I cut him as well. I can always use either some players who don't get playing time as backup or use my 1. and 2. as backup at small foward as backup. You said you want to take a walk-on as well do I take a walk-on this recruting session?