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Post by thetulsawarrior on Mar 2, 2021 17:41:19 GMT -6
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Post by kmell822 on Mar 3, 2021 16:28:48 GMT -6
Thx for posting, agree 100%. Objective with data. Love it.
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Post by yayphoenixyay on Mar 4, 2021 11:38:59 GMT -6
Thx for posting, agree 100%. Objective with data. Love it. I very much appreciate the effort that this guy put into writing this piece. I think he did try to generally do his due diligence and pick out what he thought was important. That’s awesome to see in depth pieces written about the Phoenix. But, to be totally fair, this was basically a mashup of talking points pulled from this board. For example, in the positive takeaways there was “establishing a culture.” Really? Has one been established when more than half the team is likely gone? Culture isn’t some mysterious force that lingers in the air sans people. It was objective in the sense that numbers were involved, but only numbers that fit the narrative of “nowhere to go but up!” For example, it was Bo who was quoted as saying “PPP is the most important metric.” Then, that was used to justify “players who aren’t the best getting playing time.” Does Will necessarily think/operate the same? Even if he does, that segment only served to justify questionable rotations, etc. Perhaps in sports writing this would pass as “unbiased and objective,” but I come from an academic writing tradition where this couldn’t masquerade as “unbiased.”
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Post by thetulsawarrior on Mar 4, 2021 13:54:44 GMT -6
The piece is what it is -- something to think about and discuss. The author invested more than most of us do when we post on social media. I find the developments of the past year an interesting study -- an experiment in program building. I was skeptical of Darner's RP 40 approach at GB. I just thought it wasn't a good fit, perhaps somewhere else or at another level. Bo Ryan's system worked well at Platteville Milwaukee and Madison. Why not in Green Bay? It is too early to judge but the jigsaw puzzle of players retained or recruited shows some early clues to this program-building effort. At the mid-major level, I feel the Dick Bennett and Bo Ryan "system" approach is the best fit. Not that those two coaches worked the same approach in total.
One footnote: Darner deserves credit for finding some gems. Davis, Pipes, a few of the JUCOs particularly Hemphill.
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