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Username Post: Coach of the Year        (Topic#21232)
PennFan10 
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02-26-18 12:59 AM - Post#249548    

http://www.thedp.com/article/2018/02/penn- mens-bas...


DP article arguing for SD for COY. I really think this is a done deal no matter the remaining result no? Is there even a close 2nd?

 
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02-26-18 11:18 AM - Post#249568    
    In response to PennFan10

I can’t help but wonder how Donahue’s year off from coaching may have influenced his style now. He went a lot of years consecutively coaching a team and his year off after BC he was on ESPN where he got access to all the top programs, their coaches, players and their practices. It’s tough to get an inside look into how the top programs work and I’m certain Steve went to school during hat time.

His willingness and ability to create a style around his existing talent is a big part of Penn’s success this far.

 
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02-26-18 11:53 AM - Post#249576    
    In response to PennFan10

Hopefully Penn is treating him well.

 
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02-26-18 12:45 PM - Post#249587    
    In response to PennFan10

What is remarkable is how he both forced some fundamental change (playing a 3 based style with guys who didn’t shoot it so well, losing the top player in the program who wasn’t a stylistic fit, etc.) along his traditional tendencies AND fashioned something new for him that maximizes the talent.

 
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02-26-18 12:56 PM - Post#249588    
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I think we also have to acknowledge the dramatic increase in athletic fitness and reduction in injuries over the pattern under Miller and Jerome. All of the guys in Donahue's program are much stronger and flexible after as little as a year---look at the difference in Caleb Wood's physique after one year. Guys like Foreman and Woods can play bigger men with their strength. Max and AJ both are much stronger than they were. And none of the starters have gotten hurt--just freshmen who probably need the year to get fit enough to play Donahue's way.

 
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02-26-18 01:10 PM - Post#249594    
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  • palestra38 Said:
And none of the starters have gotten hurt...


If you just jinxed this team, I swear I will hunt you down and dispense justice.

 
palestra38 
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02-26-18 01:11 PM - Post#249595    
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Sorry....none of the starters HAS gotten hurt.

 
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02-26-18 01:14 PM - Post#249597    
    In response to palestra38

Don't forget about smart game strategies. For instance, they beat Harvard by going to the basket and shooting 76% from 2 pt range.

 
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02-26-18 01:33 PM - Post#249598    
    In response to 10Q

Bilsky isn't around to muck it up

 
penn nation 
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Re: Coach of the Year
02-26-18 01:38 PM - Post#249600    
    In response to PennFan10

There's a case to be made for McLaughlin for 2nd.

Lose your way best player right before the season begins, but somehow be very competitive in the majority of the Ivy games played to date.

  • PennFan10 Said:
http://www.thedp.com/article/2018/02/penn- mens-bas...


DP article arguing for SD for COY. I really think this is a done deal no matter the remaining result no? Is there even a close 2nd?




 
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02-26-18 02:54 PM - Post#249615    
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The more amazing part to me is how he got everyone to play their strongest role. I complained earlier in the season about how Foreman holds the ball, doesn't keep his eyes up on the drive, and shoots the three - none of which are good for the team. Now he does none of those things and is also a physical defender and calming endgame presence.

AJ sacrificed a lot of his spacing and offense to make room for Max. He played this season as a defense-first power forward and now is facilitating (and finding his offense again). he is dishing out of double teams very effectively.

Max took way too many shots earlier in the season. Now he is making incredible lead passes.

Woods was a high variance high turnover PG. Now he is a defensive rock.

Wood was MIA last season and a turnover machine. Now he is a sharpshooter and catalyst on offense.

I could go on and on - but this has to be one of the most amazing coaching and teamwork stories I've seen. Getting everyone to emphasize their strengths as opposed to highlight their weaknesses (and get everyone's buy-in) has to be one of the most impressive coaching accomplishments I've seen.

Penn is not a dominant team, but they are not giving away games. The transformation through the season has just been a privilege to watch.



 
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02-26-18 09:05 PM - Post#249691    
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You can see when a team has that cohesive "it" factor, where they make each other better and play within their skill sets while playing hard and reveling in team success. Penn has looked like that in all the games I've seen. Plus they've made a lot of good adjustments on both ends to overcome various challenges that came up. Hard to see how Donahue is not coach of the year.

 
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02-27-18 01:08 AM - Post#249713    
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Donahue will clearly win, and I agree he should, but don't dismiss the jobs done by Amaker (might share the title without getting anything from his best player) and Jones (lost two of his top three right before the season and still cruised to top four yet again).

 
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02-27-18 12:10 PM - Post#249727    
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All true, but this’s is the Penn board, and Steve’s our boy. Plus, he got the program back to the top of the conference in three seasons. Did anybody expect that? I certainly didn’t.

 
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02-27-18 12:34 PM - Post#249728    
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I think there is an argument that Amaker has underperformed. Losing Aiken is a big deal but he still has more talent than everyone else. Seth Towns is a POY candidate and Lewis is a periodic monster with a shield of invisibility at times. Overall, with the league down and Harvard clearly the most talented, I think they should have run away with the league.

McLaughlin has done a great job with less despite the disgruntled fans in Hanover.

 
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02-27-18 07:41 PM - Post#249761    
    In response to PennFan10

The award should go to Steve, and I can't see how it wouldn't. When you have people looking at a team a lot, and they can't figure out how *that* team is generating *those* results, that's often a clear signal of strong coaching.

 
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Coach of the Year
02-27-18 07:46 PM - Post#249762    
    In response to mrjames

Look, for example, at the Ivy POW awards.

If you followed the weekly honorees the whole year, you would have absolutely no idea that Penn has only one loss heading into the final week.

Edited by penn nation on 02-27-18 07:47 PM. Reason for edit: No reason given.

 
PennFan10 
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02-27-18 11:16 PM - Post#249790    
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  • PennFan10 Said:
I think there is an argument that Amaker has underperformed. Losing Aiken is a big deal but he still has more talent than everyone else. Seth Towns is a POY candidate and Lewis is a periodic monster with a shield of invisibility at times. Overall, with the league down and Harvard clearly the most talented, I think they should have run away with the league.

McLaughlin has done a great job with less despite the disgruntled fans in Hanover.




Having thought more about this I need to amend my view. Amaker has lived up to expectations for the Ivy slate and this is a COY award for League play so he is certainly a viable candidate. He has turned his team into a defensive monster and genrall6 gotten enough offense to win. At 12-2 he would certainly merit COY. The OOC games was where I thought he didn’t do his best work, tinkering with lineups and losing winnable games against lesser competition.

 
Charlie Fog 
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02-28-18 08:51 AM - Post#249804    
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Ok let’s give Amaker COY and we get both the banner and the bid, deal?

 
10Q 
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02-28-18 08:59 AM - Post#249805    
    In response to Charlie Fog

Let's give him COY, forget the banner and just Dance Dance Dance. That means advancing to the Sweet.

 
LyleGold 
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02-28-18 09:25 AM - Post#249807    
    In response to 10Q

Amaker can have the COY (although SD deserves it) and enough banners to carpet the lobby of that high school gym where his team plays as long as we get the bid, which goes to the league champion and is the only thing that counts. The fact that the league sold out and now arrives at its champion in a watered down manner is bad enough; that it pretends the league championship is something else is even worse.

While this may be more palatable to millenials who grew up being told that "everybody is a winner" and "everything you do is wonderful", it cheapens something that once distinguished us. Now we're like everybody else.

 
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02-28-18 09:36 AM - Post#249809    
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4d7Wp9kKjA

 
penn nation 
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02-28-18 09:37 AM - Post#249811    
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  • 10Q Said:
forget the banner and just Dance Dance Dance.



ba ba ba ba ba.....


 
Silver Maple 
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02-28-18 12:41 PM - Post#249830    
    In response to 10Q

The FBI surround the house, "Throw the kid out,", they say, "give us your guns, and come out with your hands up."
The kidnappers say "We'll throw the kid out, but let us keep our guns, and get to our car."
The FBI says "Throw the kid out, we'll let you get to your car, but give us your guns."
The kidnappers say "We'll throw the kid out, but let us keep our guns - we don't have to get to our car."
The FBI says "Keep the kid."

The FBI decides to lob in teargas, but they don't have teargas, so several of the agents put on the death scene from Camellia. Tearstricken my abducters give themselves up. They are sentenced to fifteen years on a chaingang, and they escape, twelve of then chained together at the ankle, getting by the guards posing as an immense charm bracelet.

 
10Q 
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02-28-18 12:58 PM - Post#249837    
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Id like to know what you are talking about.

 
Silver Maple 
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02-28-18 01:18 PM - Post#249843    
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Woody Allen standup routine re: hostage negotiation.

 
palestra38 
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02-28-18 02:16 PM - Post#249855    
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Almost all of which were incorporated into "Take the Money and Run"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEm0zi8QrpA

Bank robbery

Later, there is the hysterical chain gang escape where they hold an old woman hostage.

 
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02-28-18 03:22 PM - Post#249870    
    In response to palestra38

While we are completely off topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9i5F0VqohY



 
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02-28-18 03:27 PM - Post#249872    
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftiIPJky_Vs

 
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02-28-18 04:08 PM - Post#249880    
    In response to Cvonvorys

The joke in my day was female undergrads boasting they had access to one of the country's largest organs.

[See Irvine Auditorium, Curtis Organ]

 
palestra38 
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02-28-18 04:30 PM - Post#249888    
    In response to penn nation

But you weren't there when "Deep Throat" played 3 showings and the frats came out in large numbers to sit in the balcony and brought even larger numbers of Mayo packets from dining service.

 
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02-28-18 05:09 PM - Post#249898    
    In response to Silver Maple

Leave the gun, take the cannoli.

 
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02-28-18 06:01 PM - Post#249908    
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  • LyleGold Said:
Amaker can have the COY (although SD deserves it) and enough banners to carpet the lobby of that high school gym where his team plays as long as we get the bid, which goes to the league champion and is the only thing that counts. The fact that the league sold out and now arrives at its champion in a watered down manner is bad enough; that it pretends the league championship is something else is even worse.

While this may be more palatable to millenials who grew up being told that "everybody is a winner" and "everything you do is wonderful", it cheapens something that once distinguished us. Now we're like everybody else.


So, if I understand you correctly, given the option between:

a) Last year's team (13-14 regular season, 6-8 Ivy, 4th place) holding on to defeat Princeton in that Ivy Tournament semifinal and then defeating Yale for the NCAA berth (#16-seed), or

b) This year's team winning the regular-season Ivy title (23-7 regular season, 13-1 Ivy, 1st place, assuming a sweep this weekend) but coming up just short against Harvard in the Ivy Tournament final and going to the NIT where it has a legitimate shot at winning at least one post-season game

you'd select option "a" as your preference? That would be the more satisfying season because they received the NCAA Tournament bid, in your opinion? Interesting....
http://www.letsgoquakers.com/


 
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02-28-18 06:08 PM - Post#249909    
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Option 2 would be FAR worse. Option 1 was all house money. No one thought we deserved anything and I frankly was a little relieved (after the fact--disappointed at the moment) that Howard had choked the FT and that a team with no business being there wasn't dancing. But if we sweep this weekend and then lose in the tournament, I will be extremely disappointed.

 
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02-28-18 06:21 PM - Post#249923    
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This entire season was house money. No-one but no-one (well, aside from 10Q's joke) predicted Penn would come in first and if they do--that's an amazing and unexpected achievement.

 
palestra38 
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02-28-18 06:22 PM - Post#249925    
    In response to penn nation

House money is when you don't deserve it. We deserve it unless we blow it this weekend. You are misusing the term.

 
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02-28-18 06:32 PM - Post#249929    
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  • palestra38 Said:
Option 2 would be FAR worse. Option 1 was all house money. No one thought we deserved anything and I frankly was a little relieved (after the fact--disappointed at the moment) that Howard had choked the FT and that a team with no business being there wasn't dancing. But if we sweep this weekend and then lose in the tournament, I will be extremely disappointed.


If that happens, I'll be very disappointed, too. But that's not the question so let me rephrase it. If I told you that next season (2018-19) the Ivy regular season champion won't win the Ivy tournament, would you prefer to finish around .500 overall, .500 in the league and win the Ivy Tournament? Or win 20+ games, go 13-1 in the league, but not win Ivy Madness? Which is going to be the more enjoyable season to devote 4+ months to watching?
http://www.letsgoquakers.com/


 
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02-28-18 06:39 PM - Post#249931    
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Well, neither option is particularly satisfactory since I clearly believe the regular season winner should get the bid. My main gripe is that now that we have the current system and will be stuck with it indefinitely, we can't try to have it both ways and claim titles for something that we no longer value. I felt the same way about claiming a title after losing a playoff game that supposedly wasn't for the championship after all, just the automatic bid.

If forced to choose between the two, I would gladly skip away with an NCAA bid I didn't deserve by winning a tournament that shouldn't exist. I agree with P38 that the potential horror of going 13-1 and losing the bid in the tournament would be tough to take and far outweigh any joy from option A.

 
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02-28-18 06:56 PM - Post#249934    
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The ILT is better for the league overall. And going 13-1 in the league, regardless of the result of the ILT is absolutely valued by every coach and program and they all would unapologetically hang a banner if/when that happens for every recruit and alum to see forever.



 
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02-28-18 07:32 PM - Post#249936    
    In response to PennFan10

I'll be disappointed if this team doesn't go to the NCAAs.

But I'll be far more disappointed if they don't come in 1st in the league. That banner is important.

First things first - win Friday. Any talk beyond Friday is speculative.


 
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02-28-18 08:37 PM - Post#249949    
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That's true. The best way to look at this is to rely on the words of the immortal Rick Springfield: "I want to tell her that I love her but the point is probably moot." It doesn't matter what we want. It is what it is.



 
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02-28-18 08:54 PM - Post#249952    
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  • TheLine Said:


But I'll be far more disappointed if they don't come in 1st in the league. That banner is important





Ok, that's how you feel, but I can't understand how winning the regular season could matter more to you than going to the NCAAs. When I said that "we no longer value" the regular season, I point solely to the fact that it no longer carries the automatic bid with it. That was its real value.

I can tell by your screen name that you go back to the days when enough students cared that there WAS a line. Back then, going to the tournament was the main goal and it happened about half the time over the course of a few decades. Did you really feel any consolation after losing the playoffs in '96 (or '81 if you are old enough to remember) by having a share of the regular season? Do those banners make you feel anything other than disappointment?

I guess it's possible that some people see it that way. I just don't.

 
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02-28-18 09:19 PM - Post#249954    
    In response to penn nation

Why do you say I was joking?

 
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02-28-18 10:10 PM - Post#249960    
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A share of the regular season doesn't count.

We'll have to agree to disagree.


 
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02-28-18 10:36 PM - Post#249963    
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  • TheLine Said:
A share of the regular season doesn't count.

We'll have to agree to disagree.




Wait, we DO agree on that. Not only do I think that a shared title followed by a playoff loss didn't count as a title back then, finishing first in the regular season followed by an ILT loss now doesn't count as a title either. To claim the Ivy League championship, you have to win the automatic bid. We just go about it in a way that devalues the regular season.

 
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02-28-18 11:32 PM - Post#249974    
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Your favorite MLB team wins the pennant, only to be knocked out in the playoffs by the 2nd place team. Do they take the the pennant away and reward it to the 2nd place team? And does that pennant lose its value?

Where we agree is that we'd like both the banner and the NCAAs.




 
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03-01-18 12:03 AM - Post#249976    
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  • LyleGold Said:
  • TheLine Said:

When I said that "we no longer value" the regular season, I point solely to the fact that it no longer carries the automatic bid with it. That was its real value.




That's the part that is wrong to me. They split it up, which doesn't mean winning a banner has no value. It may have no value to you, but to the program and the school, banners have tremendous value and help the school attract athletes in the future.

Would you rather finish 4th each of the next ten years and win the bid via the ILT 5 times or finish first 10 years in a row and win the bid via ILT 5 times?

Just because they split the regular season championship banner and the bid into two separate pieces doesn't make one or the other less valuable to the school/team. Donahue has said the first and only goal is to win the league this weekend and hang that banner. Next weekend they can focus on the bid.


 
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03-01-18 10:55 AM - Post#249988    
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I'm not sure why we need to debate these false alternatives:

Would y'all want us to finish first in the IL??

Would y'all want us to finish third in the IL but win the Ivy League tournament?

I would suggest both options would be favorable... Maybe not most favorable.

I think it's safe to say that all Penn posters want us to finish first in the IL and win the ILT and then knock off Purdue & Creighton to get into the Sweet Sixteen... In my ideal scenario, we crush Princeton in the first round before knocking off Harvard.

 
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03-01-18 01:19 PM - Post#250022    
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Why do you have Princeton even in the ILT in your "ideal" scenario? I like it so much better if they don't get in. We have already crushed them this year, including at Jadwin. Why tempt fate?

 
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03-01-18 02:40 PM - Post#250028    
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My ideal scenario includes beating them in the Tourney. I guess my nightmare scenario is losing to them in the Tourney.

 
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03-01-18 03:00 PM - Post#250030    
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I'd like a pony. The point is that you don't get everything you want.

 
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03-01-18 03:08 PM - Post#250031    
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  • Silver Maple Said:
I'd like a pony. The point is that you don't get everything you want.



Be careful what you ask for


 
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03-06-18 02:22 PM - Post#251088    
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I was just reflecting on SD's coaching season. People have pointed out the strength of schedule and the decline of the league as reasons to discount the accomplishment.

The masterful coaching job was not because of the record in of itself and not because of the ivy league title. Those were byproducts of the coaching. The real beauty was in getting far more out of the talent than we've seen in the last decade. Everyone had a purpose and role and there was team buy-in. They competed to the end of EVERY game, even if there were mistakes in some of them.

I commented that I was impressed even after some of their early bad losses. An Ivy title makes it more obvious that SD was a great coach this year, but I think I would have felt that way regardless.

Hope he can recruit like mad from here, because he can clearly organize a team to play well.


 
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03-06-18 02:45 PM - Post#251093    
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I remarked right after the Nova blowout loss that Penn actually did not look bad out there one bit. No deer in the headlights look. Nova was simply at a way way higher level.

 
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03-06-18 03:06 PM - Post#251098    
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I attended that game and felt the same way.

 
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03-06-18 03:09 PM - Post#251099    
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Yes-- anybody who still has doubts about Donahue's ability with Xs and Os, as well as in creating an effective culture, should just shut up at this point. And now we'll find out how well he can recruit. If, after the season the team just had, Penn can't start bringing in the caliber of player that HYP have been getting for the past few seasons, it will mean either that recruiting is a weakness for Donahue, or that the systemic disadvantages are just too great to overcome.

 
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03-06-18 03:22 PM - Post#251100    
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  • Penndemonium Said:
I was just reflecting on SD's coaching season. People have pointed out the strength of schedule and the decline of the league as reasons to discount the accomplishment.

An Ivy title makes it more obvious that SD was a great coach this year, but I think I would have felt that way regardless.

Hope he can recruit like mad from here, because he can clearly organize a team to play well.




Not sure to whom you refer, but "discount" is pretty unfair. I don't remember anyone doing that, although some people roasted SD's foul/no foul end game strategy. I honestly don't believe anyone has downplayed his coaching accomplishments. That doesn't change the reality that we have a better chance to win the real championship due to Yale and Harvard being weakened by injuries and Princeton's unexpected collapse after a 16-0 championship year. Those factors will not be present next year, so this is a chance we can't let slip away. The real recruiting boon will come from an appearance in the NCAAs more than a share of a regular season title. That's not a knock on SD at all; it's just reality.


 
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03-06-18 08:52 PM - Post#251138    
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If Stevie D doesn’t get COY, I will throw a streamer in protest after penn’s first FGM on Saturday! Technical be damned

Edited by Charlie Fog on 03-06-18 08:54 PM. Reason for edit: No reason given.

 
JadwinGeorge 
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Age: 75
Reg: 12-04-15
03-06-18 09:32 PM - Post#251144    
    In response to Charlie Fog

Donahue is COY and its not even an issue. Move on please

 
Charlie Fog 
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Age: 55
Loc: Philly
Reg: 11-12-13
03-07-18 07:39 AM - Post#251174    
    In response to JadwinGeorge

I still might throw a streamer.

 
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