Quote: Originally Posted By tkimble on 4/28/2010You continue to put up these threads in order to mock me. I know it. They are to constantly remind me how your team isn't very good, yet you beat me. That's the point of these threads. Stop it, colonels, I can't take it anymore
Lol dude, hardly...I'd much rather be 6-2 in the season than to have beaten you in exhib...you're the #1 team in D3 and I'm a division higher and barely beat you. I'm just really trying to figure this thing out more and get better as a player. I've been rather frustrated lately, so I want to know why largely my team is subpar. I have a ton of respect for you tkimble, don't ever forget it.

Quote: Originally Posted By dalter on 4/28/2010
Colonels, I know Miller's still getting decent minutes. But not quite the minutes he should, and much more importantly the frosh is getting lots of minutes that he shouldn't, and against other teams' starters to boot. I know, the last thing I wanted to do was promise Mason a start, but after putting $10K into him, I didn't want to lose him at any cost either, thus here I sit. I've made another adjustment that will hopefully get Miller some more minutes, but we'll see. I'm sure there will be more lineup jockeying before the season is over...I have to find a way to keep Karg happy as well.

And understood that there is a give-and-take when it comes to categories. It's DII and you're not going to have players who are great at everything. But my point is that you need to plan out ahead ... know that if you need/want a team with (for example) 2-3 shooters in a given season, you need to plan accordingly a few seasons before in recruiting. And also players that will complement each others' skills. Fair enough, I do kind of go into recruiting on a whim and just scout/recruit guys that look good in a good amount of relevant categories, really kind of disregarding (but still being aware of where they're poor) the low ones. I'm sure since you brought this up it will be more on my mind when recruiting comes up, though I can't say if I will actively seek to use it or not. Thank you.

Quote: Originally Posted By wronoj on 4/28/2010to 2 of dalter's points:

1) Start Miller at Center despite the promise, and start the frosh at PF. Then bring Brodkowski or whatever off the bench. With only 1 standout rebounder, you need him on the floor 28-30 minutes. I considered it, I will certainly be making more maneuvers before the season is through.

2) On the team building front, i touched on this a little bit, but not much. If you want to learn how it's done, check out Gillispie's teams in d2. He's among the best at team composition, and d2 precludes the issues you might have trying to learn from a d1 coach who loses players to Early Entry... Thanks, but personally, I am concerned that I will become X coach and will lose some of my coaching "personality" if you will, thus I'm not really looking into how to do things better, but what's wrong with the team and why they are presumably underperforming, and you guys are helping just as I have asked and I appreciate it.

Quote: Originally Posted By colonels19 on 4/28/2010

Quote: Originally Posted By wronoj on 4/28/2010
to 2 of dalter's points:

1) Start Miller at Center despite the promise, and start the frosh at PF. Then bring Brodkowski or whatever off the bench. With only 1 standout rebounder, you need him on the floor 28-30 minutes. I considered it, I will certainly be making more maneuvers before the season is through.

2) On the team building front, i touched on this a little bit, but not much. If you want to learn how it's done, check out Gillispie's teams in d2. He's among the best at team composition, and d2 precludes the issues you might have trying to learn from a d1 coach who loses players to Early Entry... Thanks, but personally, I am concerned that I will become X coach and will lose some of my coaching "personality" if you will, thus I'm not really looking into how to do things better, but what's wrong with the team and why they are presumably underperforming, and you guys are helping just as I have asked and I appreciate it.

Quote: Originally Posted By dalter on 4/28/2010

Quote: Originally Posted By colonels19 on 4/28/2010

Quote: Originally Posted By wronoj on 4/28/2010
to 2 of dalter's points:

1) Start Miller at Center despite the promise, and start the frosh at PF. Then bring Brodkowski or whatever off the bench. With only 1 standout rebounder, you need him on the floor 28-30 minutes. I considered it, I will certainly be making more maneuvers before the season is through.

2) On the team building front, i touched on this a little bit, but not much. If you want to learn how it's done, check out Gillispie's teams in d2. He's among the best at team composition, and d2 precludes the issues you might have trying to learn from a d1 coach who loses players to Early Entry... Thanks, but personally, I am concerned that I will become X coach and will lose some of my coaching "personality" if you will, thus I'm not really looking into how to do things better, but what's wrong with the team and why they are presumably underperforming, and you guys are helping just as I have asked and I appreciate it.

I don't really think the team is underperforming. You have low ratings and iq.

Quote: Originally Posted By smackawits on 5/01/2010
colonels....I can see your frustation since you're a OVR guy and you've outrated all of your opponents in OVR. I won't go over what the others have told you already regarding your talent, but it should put some concern in your head that OVR is not the be-all and end-all that you have shouted from the mountains in other threads. As you are finding out, the layering of this game is immense with IQ making a big impact on the game despite the "talent" that may be present as measured by OVR (amoung other things as the group has pointed out). This is what some of the others (dalter, for instance) have been advising you on in other threads. It is what you have argued that "doesn't make sense" with this game in those threads. It still might not make any sense to you, thus you have asked for (and have gotten) some very good help. I agree that I've gotten great help and I realized back in December/January the shortcomings of OTR and have adjusted my opinions/thoughts accordingly. I still think Montevallo should have been a gimme regardless, but I don't want to rehash essentially what is old news. I understand how walk-ons and high WE-ST-DU can skew an OTR and again, I feel my expectations as a result are valid. I never said OTR was be all-end all, but by the same token its a valuable tool when used correctly as well, but it isn't independent of the other circumstances in the game that you mentioned.

I would also comment that as you gain skill in the game that you look to schedule a little better (harder) than you have scheduled. You may have scheduled lightly this year because of your number of freshman , but next year's schedule is weaker still...though your guys will be better. I'm a scrub pounder, I've admitted it. I like the easy big W...not sure if/when/how I'll ever make the tournament...hell I'm not even sure how much longer I'll be playing the game, but I thoroughly understand that my scheduling tactics lead to low SOS and consequently low RPI. I guess part of me resents the lack of importance of/in winning in RPI...hence you see below .500 teams make the NT and PI, despite getting blown the eff out by great teams that boost(ed) their SOS and RPI...so that's a factor as well. I would love to see how my BPI rankings would fit into 1 season of HD, alas, that isn't happening. Not only would I get penalized for scrub pounding, but others would get penalized for getting annihilated by top tier competition.

This is just my 2 cents that I am respectfully submitting. I'm not trying to highjack your thread to take it in a different direction. Fair enough and thank you.