Posted by gillispie1 on 8/14/2016 5:40:00 PM (view original):
Posted by emy1013 on 8/14/2016 1:16:00 PM (view original):
Posted by guyo26 on 8/14/2016 12:29:00 PM (view original):
Posted by emy1013 on 8/13/2016 10:56:00 PM (view original):
Posted by guyo26 on 8/13/2016 12:56:00 PM (view original):
"Handed to coaches"? Please don't fill up dac's leaving post with denigrating top coaches.
For those who don't know, and I'm guessing some of you don't, this is the coach that made the spreadsheet on what is high high vs low high and maintained it for years. this is the coach that actively talked to and helped people in his conference. This is a great coach leaving. This coach has done more for the game than any of you ever will.
We've had differences in MI in Rupp dac, but you know I respect you as a coach and have in several worlds. I'll be leaving too once credits are done, but you're a good dude and a great coach.
I understand that you're just to give the guy his props but to make it out like the low-high/high-high thing was anything more than just a simple little chart is kind of ridiculous, don't you think? I mean, give him credit for his run with Michigan State or something like that, not the potential thing. It was helpful, sure, but it certainly wasn't a "Stop the presses" moment in HD history.
No, it's not a stop the presses thing ... but how many times even today do posts get made about what is high high vs low high? Nobody else actually sat down and did it, that's the point.
Of course he's a hugely successful coach, I've competed against him at MSU and also in Heartland before. But there's lots of good coaches, there are less that also try to give something back to the community, which I think he did in multiple ways. That's the only point.
I know what you were getting at and as I said, the potential chart is still a very helpful and quick reference but I just found it a little odd that out of all the things you could have chosen as an example, that the potential thing was the one you picked. No worries, it's all good.
i was, too. guyo, what you don't know is, that example actually proves what a piece of **** dac actually is -- i hate that guy! he does writing/editing, but that high/high spread sheet he just straight lifted off a post i made on the forums and didn't even give credit! bastard. that is just the tip of the iceberg in a long career of deception and thievery, which i will outline below...
no, i kid. dac is an awesome guy, just in general. i wasn't part of it but his MUSDUC (might have the spelling wrong) was very well received and he had a bunch of conference-boosting activities he ran over the years. he brought a lot of spirit to this game and has been a valuable member of the community, for sure. i have had a blast coaching MSU with him and he wanted to leave before last season - like, really, really badly. it basically causes him physical pain to have to look at the team at this point, but he doesn't want me to have to finish our tenure alone (i wanted to finish our 10yr run which ends after this season) - so he is sticking around with me to the end. that's just the kind of guy he is.
Thanks, Jeff - and it's true - I did lift that from a forum post, which gil made summarizing a bunch of other scattered posts way back when posts were sent by pigeon to the main office of Google and a monk transcribed it onto punch cards which were hand-fed into a stadium sized processing unit... (I never meant to deprive folks of that tool - I forgot stuff in the HD folder I deleted was shared...)
Thanks for mentioning the
MUSDUC. I'm probably proudest of that overall, tbh. 10 seasons, almost 100 coaches, 9 conferences, 4 champions, and hundreds of games...took a lot of herding cats :) But I believe it helped peak interest in Knight D2 for a while.
(edited to add, thank you to rogelio who came up with the scheduling method (and even built me a spreadsheet that sorted everything out automatically) - you saved the MUSDUC when folks wanted to bail due to seeding issues, couldn't have done it without you...)
8/15/2016 3:55 PM (edited)