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Fill Bleenar's 3 reasons for Husky bball "slipplage"
DugtheDoog
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And no, this is not a joke...
1. Weaker local talent pool
2. NCAA new handcheck rule
3. Sean Miller ( ok maybe a bit of a stretch here)
1. Weaker local talent pool
2. NCAA new handcheck rule
3. Sean Miller ( ok maybe a bit of a stretch here)
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Just for kicks, here are the easy defenses to Bleenor's post. The weaker local talent is a reason, but it's still an excuse. Identify, recruit, and develop other players. Basketball is a global game.
Lol at the hand check rule. I don't know where to begin with that one.
Sean Miller - Romar had some good seasons when Howland was cleaning up in recruiting at UCLA. Lute Olsen had some good teams in the early Romar years as well. Stanford was better. The conference hasn't been very good for quite a few years.
In another post in the same thread, Bleenor said people are delusional about Husky Football too. He said the football team isn't good and that the recruiting and talent hasn't been up to par. Yet he sucked Sark off and continues to do so. A bit of a contradiction there by Spleenor?
Seven recruited plenty of good players but they simply aren't being developed or utilized correctly by Petersen and his staff ... just look at how many players were picked in the first 45 picks in the draft and look at how many players Seven brought in.
Butler Cabin has SEVERE confirmation bias tied to how great Seven was as a coach (i.e. gave great access) and then searches out any and every piece of information that feeds into that perception while blowing off any and all evidence that suggests that Seven really was more of a fraud than not.
The easy way to see this is how the standard talking points was that Seven inherited no talent from Tyrone even though almost every single player on Seven's first 2-3 teams worth a shit were all guys that came in from Tyrone's last 1-2 classes ... but when that is brought up, it's all about how much player development that they had under Seven (even though the amount of player development was a laughing point as players rarely improved year to year). Now, it's all about how Seven brought in significant talent and Petersen isn't developing them because it fits the script.
Until Petersen a) wins, b) wins with his players, and c) Seven unquestionably falls on his face at SC with the same script that he used on Montlake, the narrative and talking points about how great Seven was will continue.
I could sit here and list 40 schools who are successful without talent oozing from a 15 mile radius. One very close to home, GU, is mentioned above. Odd, during all these "down" years, GU still seems to find talent.
Having a great depth of talent certainly makes life easier, but no coach should get the crutch of no local talent when you're paid millions of dollars a year. Can you imagine telling your boss that your sales just are going to flatline for a couple years because there isn't as much around? Yeah right. Pink slip.