mrjames
Professor
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Loc: Montclair, NJ
Reg: 11-21-04
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03-20-19 06:35 PM - Post#282262
In response to penn nation
Yeah, I mean, that’s another important point. Penn finished No. 100 at Bart and barely made the Ivy Tourney after a stellar non-conf campaign. Brown’s 150 at Bart and got left out. The margin between champ and not Top 4 is shrinking.
At the same time, he’s threaded the needle with three Ivy championships in five seasons while Harvard paid for three years of assistant turnover with some awful classes then got slammed with injuries, while Penn was building up and then got slammed with injuries and right before, then right after Princeton hit its top of cycle.
Paul Atkinson is an outstanding piece and Swain is good too, but every other contributor on this team is a junior or senior, meaning that he’s got one more shot into the teeth of top-of-cycle Penn and Harvard before having to hit reset a bit, and his team already loses the most of the three.
I want to be clear - I don’t expect Yale to slip out of the Top 4 necessarily (until recently it was Jones’s most noteworthy skill). But I also don’t see a clear path to another three title in five year run. He could coach at Yale forever, and I don’t suspect this would be his last tourney. I do suspect it’s likely the greatest performance-based springboard opportunity to a higher level job that he’s going to see, though. And I think if he can, he’ll take it.
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