WBB: Friday, November 10th Guilford College

[ATLaggie]

Nov 11, 2023 8:30:09 GMT -5 DECKS said:

Outside of an exhibition we should not be playing D3 schools.

Could you elaborate, because it sounds like you should be working in the front office of the athletic department.

[DECKS]

Nov 12, 2023 9:41:19 GMT -5 ATLaggie said:

Nov 11, 2023 8:30:09 GMT -5 DECKS said:

Outside of an exhibition we should not be playing D3 schools.

Could you elaborate, because it sounds like you should be working in the front office of the athletic department.

That level of competition isn't going to make us better. We'd be better tested in practice. I suspect the intent was to get another home game for fans.

[oleschoolaggie]

usually, early season "cupcake games" are more less intended to give your team an easy win while allowing your team members to form a "team identity" without losing the game. we go thru this every season, particularly when there is a significant roster turnover.

essentially all of the major d1 schools do it. i mean, do ya really think pittsburgh scheduled us because they believed we'd test their squad? unc played radford and lehigh. do you really think they expected challenging matchups against radford and lehigh?

unless your squad returns your top 6 or 7 players, then playing cupcakes early in the season is par for the course. its not intended to improve your "sos" (strength of schedule). instead, its intended to accommodate the process of forming "chemistry" with the new players that you've added to your team. and that applies to teams that didn't necessarily hire a new coach, but its "twice as important" when your roster is 90% new players and your entire coaching staff is new like our men's team.

yet, our men have "zero" cupcake games on our schedule! we have a team full of guys who have "NEVER" played together as a team before and a coaching staff who has "NEVER" coached any of the players before. i mean, if ever there was a scenario to schedule 2 or 3 cupcake games, it would be this years aggie men's basketball team.

i mean, coach "t" rob has a bunch of returnees this season compared to our men, yet coach "t" rob saw it fit to schedule early season "powerhouses" such as guilford college and averette college which i totally understand why.

guys and gals who've ever played organized team basketball before know what i'm talkin' bout when i say that playing "organized team basketball" is not a simple matter of placing 5 talented players on the basketball court together and expect them to play as a team like a "well oiled machine". it takes "time" in "real games" (not scrimmages) to really learn your new teammates and probably just as long for the coaches to learn his new players in "real game" situations.

so this early in the season playing against stiff competition is not gonna allow our "very young" true freshmen in particular, but also all of the new players, to look good on the basketball court. no team that's very reliant on freshmen are gonna look good early in the season unless its a program like kentucky or duke that have several mcdonald's all american freshmen on their teams...

[saabman]

Nov 12, 2023 15:03:46 GMT -5 oleschoolaggie said:

usually, early season "cupcake games" are more less intended to give your team an easy win while allowing your team members to form a "team identity" without losing the game. we go thru this every season, particularly when there is a significant roster turnover.

essentially all of the major d1 schools do it. i mean, do ya really think pittsburgh scheduled us because they believed we'd test their squad? unc played radford and lehigh. do you really think they expected challenging matchups against radford and lehigh?

unless your squad returns your top 6 or 7 players, then playing cupcakes early in the season is par for the course. its not intended to improve your "sos" (strength of schedule). instead, its intended to accommodate the process of forming "chemistry" with the new players that you've added to your team. and that applies to teams that didn't necessarily hire a new coach, but its "twice as important" when your roster is 90% new players and your entire coaching staff is new like our men's team.

yet, our men have "zero" cupcake games on our schedule! we have a team full of guys who have "NEVER" played together as a team before and a coaching staff who has "NEVER" coach any of the players before. i mean, if ever there was a scenario to schedule 2 or 3 cupcake games, it would this years aggie men's basketball team.

i mean, coach "t" rob has a bunch of returnees this season compared to our men, yet coach "t" rob saw it fit to schedule early season "powerhouses" such as guilford college and averette college which i totally understand why.

guys and gals who've ever played organized team basketball before know what i'm talkin' bout when i say that playing "organized team basketball" is not a simple matter of placing 5 talented players on the basketball court together and expect them to play as a team like a "well oiled machine". it take "time" in "real games" (not scrimmages) to really learn your new teammates and probably just as long for the coaches to learn his new players in "real game" situations.

so this early in the season playing against stiff competition is not gonna allow our "very young" true freshmen in particular, but also all of the new players, to look good on the basketball court. no team that very reliant on freshmen are gonna look good early in the season unless its a program like kentucky or duke that have several mcdonald's all american freshmen on their teams...

It also allows you to rotate players into the lineup that may not see the floor at all for the rest of the season. But it gives you an idea what backups may be rotated in for certain situations.