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IAA Fan:
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--- Quote from: ytownchief22 on April 25, 2017, 09:05:31 AM ---The team is going to be athletic, that's for sure. Up and down the court. Love it.
Also if anybody didn't see. WKBN got granted access to practice and had coach mic'd up.
http://wkbn.com/2017/04/24/calhouns-vision-brings-a-fan-base-excitement/
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Nice! One quote was "you should be running and dunking, and getting this place going"! That is EXACTLY what is needed. Opening practice, wearing a mic. That is MARKETING his program! This guy gets it. We can only hope some of the sports adminstration was listening.
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So you think this was Calhoun walking in and playing "Dirty Harry" in order try and carry the ransom for the kidnapped girl? :) Just telling the admin what he was going to do? (just teasing) They would never hire or keep someone like that. Also when was the last time in the last 10-years we had a court practice in April? Substituting speed for skill is not going to make it in the Horizon...defense. Oh wait Butler and Loyola left ...maybe it will. Coach needs time to adjust to DI, I will give it to him. Creating a "buzz" can be nothing but good for the program ...that's for sure.
go guins:
1AA, I have never, and still don't get the adjust to D-1 stuff. Coaching is coaching. BB or FB is BB and FB. If you can coach you can coach. Guys go up and down all the time. The good ones win at every level and the lesser perform to a lesser extent. Yes, he will need time to recruit players and some with need a year to be physically ready. same as with ALL programs, but you act like the Horizon League is some really tough league to get prepared for. and to me is is really about lower than weaker mid-major play. Seems to me that the Horizon League is going to have to adjust to coach Calhoun as much as he is going to have to adjust to them.
IAA Fan:
You hit the nail on the head. DI is less about style than DII, especially at the MM level. When you are an upper end conference club, in an upper-level conference, then 1-guy is not going to make the difference. At our level, one player can make your entire team. A DII club is almost never going to see that caliber of a player, so they adjust style to get an edge. I do not see any Horizon team adjusting to YSU, with two exceptions that are already speedy. Now certain dominating upper-end teams in DI will play a certain style (UK, Mich State, UNC, Old UCLA, etc.) but those are few and far between. You don't see Matta changing the Buckeyes to win 2-games a year again MSU do you? Now if 9 teams in the Big-10 played the same style as MSU, then Matta would lose his job if he did not "keep up with the Jones". YSU was one of a few teams that adjusted to compete with Butler in the conference, but they were so good for so long we had no choice. Should Calhoun win consistently (and we all hope for that to occur) then maybe a couple of coaches will adjust.
Double ET:
Coaches can decided on the types of offensive and defensive scheme that they want to play. Unless they can find the types of good players to fit into those schemes, it would not work.
I used to visit my family in Las Vegas in the 80's. Many of my relatives graduated from UNLV. Jerry the "shark" won lots of games with an uptempo game known as "the running rebels" at UNLV. I was able to watched couple of games at UNLV the year when they won the NCAA. I believed 4 of the starting 5 played in the NBA. The Shark was the talk of the town.
His offensive scheme was very simple. He figured that a team would typically have 12 turnovers per game. He had his players raced past mid-court and shot the 3's as soon as possible. The quick shoots eliminated the turnovers resulting in almost in average gain of 10-15 points. They regularly scored over 100 points.
Fast forward a few years, the shark was kicked out of UNLV because of some type of violations. He went to other schools using similar schemes without any success. HE COULD NOT GET THE PLAYERS!
We shall see if we will be successful. We needs good players. Right now, we have a power forward who could not shoot over 50% FT, could not finish under the basket, could not make layups and could not get away from fouls trouble. We need good players...... Hope the new coach can bring them in....
ytownchief22:
Devin Morgan @D_Morgan22 1h1 hour ago
Blessed to say I've committed to Youngstown St University ⚪️🔴⚫️
PG. Delaware State transfer. Averaged 15 ppg.
Cam and Santiago play while Devin sits out a year and then the reigns are his.
Love what this staff is doing!
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