BasketballCoach2015 said:

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Texas_Ag11 said:

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This is a great thread with absolutely zero relevance. You can tell its the offseason. Bracketology in April is unhinged! Go outside guys!!!!

(preaching to myself as well here)

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Haha I teach and it's the end of year and just trying to keep myself sane while dealing with egotistical teenagers

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Same here! Not enough blue stars in my universe for you, sir.

It all depends on how the motley crew being assembled meshes together. Nobody has any clue what's going to happen.

A winning record would be a big feat. Winning 1/3 of our SEC games would be big. Making the NIT and winning a game or two would be big.

the recruiting may actually be harder in Year 2 than in Yr 1.

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the recruiting may actually be harder in Year 2 than in Yr 1.

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I highly doubt it. Maybe for some of the top end guys, but overall it should be much easier.

A whole year to establish relationships, evaluate players, know what at least some of the current roster players can do, get to know your coaches and their strengths and weaknesses, etc. should make the entire process MUCH easier than having to recruit an entire roster of players you've never talked to before.

I think that's an underrated part of the difficulty of this transition, and why his recruiting so far has been fairly impressive, it's not like he was also recruiting most of these guys at Samford. Like if another high-major coach took over they'd already have some relationships built and know these players a lot better.

bobinator said:

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the recruiting may actually be harder in Year 2 than in Yr 1.

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I highly doubt it. Maybe for some of the top end guys, but overall it should be much easier.

A whole year to establish relationships, evaluate players, know what at least some of the current roster players can do, get to know your coaches and their strengths and weaknesses, etc. should make the entire process MUCH easier than having to recruit an entire roster of players you've never talked to before.

I think that's an underrated part of the difficulty of this transition, and why his recruiting so far has been fairly impressive, it's not like he was also recruiting most of these guys at Samford. Like if another high-major coach took over they'd already have some relationships built and know these players a lot better.

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I want to be competitive playing a style of ball that makes the best players in Texas want to go to A&M. Not really concerned about the record.

Yeah, said this before but next year's goal is just proof-of-concept. Anything above that and I'll be ecstatic, but we need to show that this system and style of play can work. Now what does that actually look like? It depends. Maybe we post a decent record, maybe we don't but we pull off a few upsets, maybe we're horrible to start the year but we get better as we go and as players figure it out, something like Buzz's first season.

Could go a lot of ways, but that's really my only "expectation" (in the sense that if we don't do it, it will feel like a failure of a season.)

But like a few of us have said, one thing about playing a style outside the norm is you have to be committed to it, and if we're truly committed to it, I expect we'll get blasted a few times. Especially early if we play a decent schedule. Like if we still play Tech in early December that's the kind of game where I'd expect us to get dropped on our head.

bobinator said:

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Yeah, said this before but next year's goal is just proof-of-concept. Anything above that and I'll be ecstatic, but we need to show that this system and style of play can work. Now what does that actually look like? It depends. Maybe we post a decent record, maybe we don't but we pull off a few upsets, maybe we're horrible to start the year but we get better as we go and as players figure it out, something like Buzz's first season.

Could go a lot of ways, but that's really my only "expectation" (in the sense that if we don't do it, it will feel like a failure of a season.)

But like a few of us have said, one thing about playing a style outside the norm is you have to be committed to it, and if we're truly committed to it, I expect we'll get blasted a few times. Especially early if we play a decent schedule. Like if we still play Tech in early December that's the kind of game where I'd expect us to get dropped on our head.

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Nothing looked more half-hearted than an un-committed Louisville full-court press or an un-committed Syracuse 3-2 zone.

Or the like two games a year that Kennedy would try some new stuff on defense for no reason and then we'd never see it again. I remember a few times a year we'd be on here like 'what are we doing here?'

One thing about Buzz is we didn't waste a lot of time doing stuff we were never going to use. If we were going to do something, we were going to do it.

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Or the like two games a year that Kennedy would try some new stuff on defense for no reason and then we'd never see it again. I remember a few times a year we'd be on here like 'what are we doing here?'

One thing about Buzz is we didn't waste a lot of time doing stuff we were never going to use. If we were going to do something, we were going to do it.

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Nightmares of switching everything against Michigan because it was easier than drawing up an actual game plan. Kennedy coaching against Beilein was like me challenging da Vinci to a painting contest.

Makes you really appreciate someone like Kelvin Sampson. You wouldn't see the Princeton offense all year, but you know everybody spent a grueling day or 2 on it in pre-season camp.