SomeGuy
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02-23-19 01:55 PM - Post#277680
In response to Mike Porter
The point about the Coach reaching is an interesting one. Not sure whether it is really different from the last two years, where Donahue made these types of playing time changes as well. But the changes in conjunction with the public comments about Wang do make it look more like grasping to find answers. I’m always more “stay the course†than most of the board, I know, but a lot of this may have been funny bounces (certainly was against Harvard and Princeton in particular). When the coach starts grasping, that makes those bounces seem like more than they are, and that can create a snowball effect. And because the coach has done a very good job of staying the course and maintaining buy in, if he shows cracks in that confidence in approach, that also can have a snowball effect because it seems different from prior demeanor/approach. That is of course total BS speculation and could have no resemblance to reality. But it does kind of fit the facts.
Regardless of the why, as one of the Princeton guys pointed out, this is similar to what Princeton went through last year. It can snowball on you. There are frankly similarities for this year’s Brown team too. A lot of close losses can have a cumulative impact.
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