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Post by Maxell on Dec 4, 2008 12:23:27 GMT -5
They have Norfolk then Campbell. Both should be blowouts. But then it's Liberty, VA Tech, Charlotte and Kentucky. If the team is where I think it is, we beat both Liberty and Charlotte. I think we then put a scare in either VA Tech or Kentucky and hoping against hope that we get a victory in one of those games. The VA Tech game will be a measuring stick because we played them last year and lost by 39.
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Post by captaggie on Dec 4, 2008 13:00:11 GMT -5
I feel good about getting 4 wins out of that run.
A quick elaboration on my stating conditioning as a weakness, because it means more to me than running more suicides.
Travel - Did we get to the AU game (or others when appropriate) by bus or air? Did we arrive the day before or game day? Lodging - Did we stay at a two or three star hotel? Nutrition - pre game meal - at a good restaurant or MacDonalds?
Negative answers to these areas will influence performance (i.e. second half not like the first). These areas and others impact whether our ladies program (or any other) move up to the next level, because the mid-majors actively fund and manage this areas. With our current budget, its not going to happen.
Yet, we Aggies continue to want more wins without investing more. Its easy to ask the Ladies to step up. When will we?
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Dec 4, 2008 13:12:49 GMT -5
A strategic perspective. We've played 4 SEC schools (Georgia, SC, Old Miss, AU) in the last 2 years. Generally speaking, their coaches respected us and players didn't. After the first half of all the games, our players "earned" their respect. The SEC schools adjusted by increasing their intensity (after getting chewed out by their coaches). Our trend is that our second half has never been close to matching the first. To the best of my memory, he haven't had a decent run in the second half of any of these games. As others have mentioned, conditioning, athleticism (competing with opponent's bench depth & quality) game management (conserve energy) coupled with "battlefield respect" seems to be our weakness when playing teams at this level. All that said, I'm very proud of last night's performance. It exceeded my expectations and I wish I could have been there to support them. I'm also proud that the ladies' program continues to improve. but most hbcu's run out of gas in the second half against ranked teams because we have to play harder than our opponents in the first half in order to stay in the game. you see the same thing happening to #1 ranked unc's opponents. a lot of them stay close in the first half by playing harder than carolina. but in the second half, its hard for carolina's opponents to sustain their level of play because they exert pretty much maximum energy in the first half. i watched the same thing happen to norfolk the other night against michigan. it was a fairly close game leading up to halftime but norfolk had no legs in the second half and michigan pulled away. the only way to avoid that is if your team has good depth and has a hot hand (especially from 3 pt. land) for two halves like we did against depaul last year...
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Post by Maxell on Dec 4, 2008 13:16:23 GMT -5
I feel good about getting 4 wins out of that run. A quick elaboration on my stating conditioning as a weakness, because it means more to me than running more suicides. Travel - Did we get to the AU game (or others when appropriate) by bus or air? Did we arrive the day before or game day? Lodging - Did we stay at a two or three star hotel? Nutrition - pre game meal - at a good restaurant or MacDonalds? Negative answers to these areas will influence performance (i.e. second half not like the first). These areas and others impact whether our ladies program (or any other) move up to the next level, because the mid-majors actively fund and manage this areas. With our current budget, its not going to happen. Yet, we Aggies continue to want more wins without investing more. Its easy to ask the Ladies to step up. When will we? Excellent points. Do we know the answers?
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Dec 4, 2008 13:19:23 GMT -5
They have Norfolk then Campbell. Both should be blowouts. But then it's Liberty, VA Tech, Charlotte and Kentucky. If the team is where I think it is, we beat both Liberty and Charlotte. I think we then put a scare in either VA Tech or Kentucky and hoping against hope that we get a victory in one of those games. The VA Tech game will be a measuring stick because we played them last year and lost by 39. charlotte will not be an easy game, they're pretty good. i don't know if i see us winning that game. when i last saw them, charlotte had a much better team than ecu...
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Post by Maxell on Dec 4, 2008 13:48:15 GMT -5
They have Norfolk then Campbell. Both should be blowouts. But then it's Liberty, VA Tech, Charlotte and Kentucky. If the team is where I think it is, we beat both Liberty and Charlotte. I think we then put a scare in either VA Tech or Kentucky and hoping against hope that we get a victory in one of those games. The VA Tech game will be a measuring stick because we played them last year and lost by 39. charlotte will not be an easy game, they're pretty good. i don't know if i see us winning that game. when i last saw them, charlotte had a much better team than ecu... You are right the Charlotte game will be tough. The common opponent between ECU and Charlotte is Hampton. ECU beat them by 16. Charlotte beat them by 23. Charlotte has quality wins against Michigan and USC. The bottom line is we have to win a tough OOC game at some point. Charlotte might as well be it. Also, we should have a good contingent of Aggie faithful at the game.
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Post by captaggie on Dec 4, 2008 13:52:51 GMT -5
Oldschoolaggie:
If we could control the variables I addressed for Norfolk vs Michigan, the outcome will always favor Michgan. HBCUs will never compete for the same caliber of athletes as a major Div 1 school. I do believe we can get a few upsets (i.e. Hampton's Big Dance win) and mid major wins with better athletes when we invest the funds to prepared our athletes better and are soundly coached, two areas where HBCUs have significant deficits.
Solution(s)? More "effective" fund raising from alumni (easy to say hard to do, I know). But where else will it come from? Not from the school (Battle has defined his position) or business (maybe if marketing is focused on the ladies program).
Yet, didn't we just raise student fees? Is athletics getting any of that? If so, I really hate leaning on students.
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Post by aggiejazz on Dec 4, 2008 13:59:07 GMT -5
I feel good about getting 4 wins out of that run. A quick elaboration on my stating conditioning as a weakness, because it means more to me than running more suicides. Travel - Did we get to the AU game (or others when appropriate) by bus or air? Did we arrive the day before or game day? Lodging - Did we stay at a two or three star hotel? Nutrition - pre game meal - at a good restaurant or MacDonalds? Negative answers to these areas will influence performance (i.e. second half not like the first). These areas and others impact whether our ladies program (or any other) move up to the next level, because the mid-majors actively fund and manage this areas. With our current budget, its not going to happen. Yet, we Aggies continue to want more wins without investing more. Its easy to ask the Ladies to step up. When will we? I can't speak to how the ladies traveled yesterday but I know they stay at good quality hotels and eat well on the road because Coach Bibbs demands it as well as AD Wheeler. The men BB team fly to their out of conference games (can't drive to most of them) and have good accommodations. The baseball coach ensure that his players eat well when on the road. What I can't answer is what is the kind of training treatment for hurts and injuries do the players get on and off the road. One major problem is when the teams are home they don't have a training table that supplements their strength and conditioning training. One more thing, let me end this myth that the MEAC will be easy for the Aggies. The Aggies very well will (positive thinking) end up champions but it will not be easy. Morgan State is looking very good so far and you have two more teams to worry about, Coppin State and Del State. Warning: don't go up to Coach Bibbs with that 'easy MEAC' talk and you will get the cold stare that will shrink ya.
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Post by numberonebrave on Dec 4, 2008 14:21:17 GMT -5
Date Opponent Location Time/Result Details Looks as if Morgan is doing okay!!!!!!!!!!! SEE BELOW 11/11/2008 West Virginia State (Exhibition) Hill Field House W 66-43 Details 11/14/2008 vs. William & Mary (UNC Asheville Tournament) Asheville, N.C. W 70-48 Details 11/15/2008 Fairfield (UNC Asheville Tournament) Asheville, N.C. W 57-55 Details 11/17/2008 at North Carolina Central Durham, N.C. W 63-53 Details 11/21/2008 vs. Louisiana at Monroe (Fifth Third Classic) Huntington, W.Va. L 57-59 Details 11/22/2008 vs. Tennessee State (Fifth Third Classic) W 63-57 Details 11/28/2008 American Hill Field House W 57-54 Details 12/3/2008 La Salle Hill Field House W 71-70 Details 12/6/2008 Bowie State Hill Field House 2 p.m. Details 12/13
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Dec 4, 2008 14:43:11 GMT -5
charlotte will not be an easy game, they're pretty good. i don't know if i see us winning that game. when i last saw them, charlotte had a much better team than ecu... You are right the Charlotte game will be tough. The common opponent between ECU and Charlotte is Hampton. ECU beat them by 16. Charlotte beat them by 23. Charlotte has quality wins against Michigan and USC. The bottom line is we have to win a tough OOC game at some point. Charlotte might as well be it. Also, we should have a good contingent of Aggie faithful at the game. i agree for the most part. i think we'll have about a 50/50 chance to beat charlotte and if we do, with an impressive win against ecu along with a respectable showing against auburn and ole miss, it might be enough to get us a 15 seed, a 14 seed at best (assuming we win the meac tourney). but if we don't beat charlotte, it won't be a loss to hang our heads about (as long as its not a blowout)...
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Dec 4, 2008 14:57:41 GMT -5
One more thing, let me end this myth that the MEAC will be easy for the Aggies. The Aggies very well will (positive thinking) end up champions but it will not be easy. Morgan State is looking very good so far and you have two more teams to worry about, Coppin State and Del State. Warning: don't go up to Coach Bibbs with that 'easy MEAC' talk and you will get the cold stare that will shrink ya. aggiejazz, you're exactly right! that's why i don't think we'll run the table in the conference. we'll have a target on our backs and will have to overcome everybody's best game night in night out. i think we may lose as many as 2 (or 3 maximum) conference games during the regular season. yet, running the table is not out of the question. no matter how the regular season turns out, i'm confident that we'll win the meac tourney because i'm sure the ladies still have that bad taste in their mouths from last season. plus, its the last opportunity for our two best players (bland and taylor-james) to go to the big dance. i expect to see maximum effort out of those two, they'll have a whole lot of fire in their eyes that should also rub off on the rest of the team...
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Post by captaggie on Dec 4, 2008 15:28:33 GMT -5
Just to clarify, my point on competiton (earlier post) was not to imply that winning our conference would be easy. I "believe" our execution will drop due to the level of competition via SEC/mid majors in Dec vs. MEAC in Jan/Feb.
If I was a coach, as a test, I would compare our Ladies' performance against Norfolk in Dec vs. the game in March.
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Post by captaggie on Dec 8, 2008 17:00:28 GMT -5
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