View previous topic :: View next topic |
Who will win this game? |
Maryland |
|
20% |
[ 1 ] |
Connecticut |
|
80% |
[ 4 ] |
|
Total Votes : 5 |
|
Author |
Message |
umbeta1455
Joined: 18 Apr 2005 Posts: 1897 Location: Maine
Back to top |
Posted: 11/19/17 9:08 pm ::: |
Reply |
|
GlennMacGrady wrote: |
The UConn bench are "slugs" who "stunk it up"? The bench shot 8-15 (53%), better than the starters' 30-63 (47%). What they didn't do well is play defense. This may be because they don't get much of a chance to play defense in practice because UConn uses men practice players -- a practice that should be banned.
Maryland, a weak team this year, scored 72 points against UConn, which hardly anyone ever does. They would have been held to 50 by some previous UConn teams. |
Why should men’s practice players be banned? I haven’t seen this discussed before, so I am curious as to why you think so.
|
|
tfan
Joined: 31 May 2010 Posts: 9604
Back to top |
Posted: 11/21/17 4:10 am ::: |
Reply |
|
umbeta1455 wrote: |
GlennMacGrady wrote: |
The UConn bench are "slugs" who "stunk it up"? The bench shot 8-15 (53%), better than the starters' 30-63 (47%). What they didn't do well is play defense. This may be because they don't get much of a chance to play defense in practice because UConn uses men practice players -- a practice that should be banned.
Maryland, a weak team this year, scored 72 points against UConn, which hardly anyone ever does. They would have been held to 50 by some previous UConn teams. |
Why should men’s practice players be banned? I haven’t seen this discussed before, so I am curious as to why you think so. |
I'd like to see it banned because:
1) it lowers the importance of the non-starters, many of whom won't see any significant playing time the entire season. So they watch at the games and watch at practice. Ultimately, the male practice players would be more deserving of a championship ring than the deep bench players.
2) it introduces non-team members - and of a different sex - into the equation. You don't want one team winning because their male practice players are better at pushing them (without discouraging them) than another team's male practice players. Or one team may have not been able to find a bunch of guys who want to regularly scrimmage women for free and they have to practice against their second team. I would be happier with male practice players if they also got championship rings and were listed on the roster with the women.
Last edited by tfan on 11/21/17 4:17 am; edited 1 time in total |
|
tfan
Joined: 31 May 2010 Posts: 9604
Back to top |
Posted: 11/21/17 4:16 am ::: |
Reply |
|
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/i-EEL0ij1jE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
|
|
ArtBest23
Joined: 02 Jul 2013 Posts: 14550
Back to top |
Posted: 11/21/17 10:15 am ::: |
Reply |
|
tfan wrote: |
2) it introduces non-team members - and of a different sex - into the equation. You don't want one team winning because their male practice players are better at pushing them (without discouraging them) than another team's male practice players. Or one team may have not been able to find a bunch of guys who want to regularly scrimmage women for free and they have to practice against their second team. I would be happier with male practice players if they also got championship rings and were listed on the roster with the women. |
Why is finding and recruiting from the school's playgrounds and intramural teams the right people to build a male practice team any different than finding the right walk ons, or managers, or employees for that matter? Winning teams do a better job of that and other stuff. That's why they're winning teams. Maybe the others need to try harder. I really don't understand your complaint.
And there's nothing stopping schools from publicizing their practice players. Notre Dame has published pictures and names and bios of its male practice players and the practice squad has its own Twitter feed. That's a matter of choice, not rule. Nor do I believe there are any rules on who can receive rings although I've never heard of a school giving those to practice players. As far as I know they could if they wanted to spend the money.
|
|
pilight
Joined: 23 Sep 2004 Posts: 66890 Location: Where the action is
Back to top |
|
tfan
Joined: 31 May 2010 Posts: 9604
Back to top |
Posted: 11/21/17 10:48 am ::: |
Reply |
|
ArtBest23 wrote: |
tfan wrote: |
2) it introduces non-team members - and of a different sex - into the equation. You don't want one team winning because their male practice players are better at pushing them (without discouraging them) than another team's male practice players. Or one team may have not been able to find a bunch of guys who want to regularly scrimmage women for free and they have to practice against their second team. I would be happier with male practice players if they also got championship rings and were listed on the roster with the women. |
Why is finding and recruiting from the school's playgrounds and intramural teams the right people to build a male practice team any different than finding the right walk ons, or managers, or employees for that matter? |
The people you mention are paid or part of the team and they all show up on the roster page. If the practice team is the same, why don't they get paid and/or show up on the roster page, either as members of the team, or with the staff? I think the reason is because people don't want to consider how they are actually part of the team. I bet if you had the pictures of the male practice players in the roster section with a bio (son of Albert and Jacqueline Braden), people would freak out. And yet, they are part of the practices. They are just like red-shirt players who practice, but don't play in games, and the red-shirt players show up on the roster page.
Quote: |
Winning teams do a better job of that and other stuff. That's why they're winning teams. Maybe the others need to try harder. I really don't understand your complaint. |
The main determinant in being a winning team is having the best players and winning teams do a better job of getting the best players to attend their school. Or, we could give credit to the coaches for better coaching as people like to do. I have never heard walk-ons, video coordinators, "team manager" or trainers, given credit for the success of any team (as in "we won more games because of them", that is, beyond the standard "we couldn't have done it without them").
Quote: |
And there's nothing stopping schools from publicizing their practice players. Notre Dame has published pictures and names and bios of its male practice players and the practice squad has its own Twitter feed. That's a matter of choice, not rule. Nor do I believe there are any rules on who can receive rings although I've never heard of a school giving those to practice players. As far as I know they could if they wanted to spend the money. |
I would accept male practice players if they are on the roster page, either as members of the team or with the coaches. And also, if the sport was renamed to "NCAA men's and women's basketball".
Last edited by tfan on 11/21/17 11:26 am; edited 1 time in total |
|
ArtBest23
Joined: 02 Jul 2013 Posts: 14550
Back to top |
Posted: 11/21/17 11:19 am ::: |
Reply |
|
tfan wrote: |
ArtBest23 wrote: |
tfan wrote: |
2) it introduces non-team members - and of a different sex - into the equation. You don't want one team winning because their male practice players are better at pushing them (without discouraging them) than another team's male practice players. Or one team may have not been able to find a bunch of guys who want to regularly scrimmage women for free and they have to practice against their second team. I would be happier with male practice players if they also got championship rings and were listed on the roster with the women. |
Why is finding and recruiting from the school's playgrounds and intramural teams the right people to build a male practice team any different than finding the right walk ons, or managers, or employees for that matter? |
The people you mention are paid or part of the team and they all show up on the roster page. If the practice team is the same, why don't they get paid and/or show up on the roster page, either as members of the team, or with the staff? I bet if you had the pictures of the male practice players in the roster section with a bio, people would freak out. And yet, they are part of the practices. They are just like red-shirt players who practice, but don't play in games, and the red-shirt players show up on the roster page.
Quote: |
Winning teams do a better job of that and other stuff. That's why they're winning teams. Maybe the others need to try harder. I really don't understand your complaint. |
The main determinant in being a winning team is having the best players and winning teams do a better job of getting the best players to attend their school. Or, we could give credit to the coaches for better coaching as people like to do. I have never heard walk-ons, video coordinators, "team manager" or trainers, given credit for the success of any team (as in "we won more games because of them", that is, beyond the standard "we couldn't have done it without them").
Quote: |
And there's nothing stopping schools from publicizing their practice players. Notre Dame has published pictures and names and bios of its male practice players and the practice squad has its own Twitter feed. That's a matter of choice, not rule. Nor do I believe there are any rules on who can receive rings although I've never heard of a school giving those to practice players. As far as I know they could if they wanted to spend the money. |
I would accept male practice players if they are on the roster page, either as members of the team or with the coaches. And also, if the sport was renamed to "NCAA men's and women's basketball". |
Nobody's making them do it. They do it because they like to do it. I'm sure they don't care that you don't. "You would accept." Seriously. Get over yourself. There's nothing broken here. Go find a bona fide problem to complain about.
|
|
tfan
Joined: 31 May 2010 Posts: 9604
Back to top |
Posted: 11/21/17 12:35 pm ::: |
Reply |
|
ArtBest23 wrote: |
Nobody's making them do it. They do it because they like to do it.
|
Irrelevant whether they like to do it or not.
Quote: |
I'm sure they don't give a shit that you don't. |
What they think about people who don't like the idea of male practice players is irrelevant.
Quote: |
"You would accept." Seriously. Get over yourself. |
.In this case the words "I'd be happy with" did not apply, so I had to go a notch down, even though it is still too high. I would still want them gone, even if they were on the roster page. But I have a feeling if they ever ended up on the roster page, the sacred cow that they have become might start cracking.
Last edited by tfan on 11/21/17 12:52 pm; edited 1 time in total |
|
tfan
Joined: 31 May 2010 Posts: 9604
Back to top |
Posted: 11/21/17 12:47 pm ::: |
Reply |
|
Surprising how much support the male practice players got, including from Voepel. She wrote an entire article justifying male practice players by talking about the benefits it gives the male practice players and what great guys they are:
Quote: |
Now, can anyone truly believe the best thing for women's basketball is to ban guys such as Shane, Kirk, Danny, Micah, Brian, David, Matt and Scott? Does that really make any sense? |
|
|
ArtBest23
Joined: 02 Jul 2013 Posts: 14550
Back to top |
Posted: 11/21/17 1:06 pm ::: |
Reply |
|
tfan wrote: |
Irrelevant whether they like to do it or not. |
You know whose feelings are even less relevant to the issue? Got a mirror handy?
It's not surprising at all that they are popular. Not many teams have spare 6'3" players sitting around to practice against.
|
|
linkster
Joined: 27 Jul 2012 Posts: 5423
Back to top |
Posted: 11/21/17 1:45 pm ::: |
Reply |
|
GlennMacGrady wrote: |
The UConn bench are "slugs" who "stunk it up"? The bench shot 8-15 (53%), better than the starters' 30-63 (47%). What they didn't do well is play defense. This may be because they don't get much of a chance to play defense in practice because UConn uses men practice players -- a practice that should be banned.
Maryland, a weak team this year, scored 72 points against UConn, which hardly anyone ever does. They would have been held to 50 by some previous UConn teams. |
You suggest an interesting reason for the poor defensive play of the freshmen. Maybe some media type who reads this can ask Geno. From reading reports over the years I am pretty sure that the entire squad takes part in scrimmages. That was the reason Geno added a couple of walk-ons about 4-5 years ago, there weren't enough players to scrimmage.
Nearly half of those 72 points you use as evidence were scored in the 4th period. While supporting your opinion of the freshman defensive effort it also says that MD averaged less than 14 points a period against the regular rotation minus KLS. Depleted opponent or not that is a pretty good defensive effort. UConn's historical defensive stats have had a lot to do with how many minutes the bench played in the 4th period which correlated well with how big the lead was stretched in the first 3. If you look at the seasons where UConn held a lot of teams under 50 you'll also see that those were the years when the bench was very short and the starters played long into the 4th period.
|
|
GlennMacGrady
Joined: 03 Jan 2005 Posts: 8225 Location: Heisenberg
Back to top |
Posted: 11/21/17 3:17 pm ::: |
Reply |
|
linkster wrote: |
GlennMacGrady wrote: |
The UConn bench are "slugs" who "stunk it up"? The bench shot 8-15 (53%), better than the starters' 30-63 (47%). What they didn't do well is play defense. This may be because they don't get much of a chance to play defense in practice because UConn uses men practice players -- a practice that should be banned.
Maryland, a weak team this year, scored 72 points against UConn, which hardly anyone ever does. They would have been held to 50 by some previous UConn teams. |
You suggest an interesting reason for the poor defensive play of the freshmen. Maybe some media type who reads this can ask Geno. From reading reports over the years I am pretty sure that the entire squad takes part in scrimmages. That was the reason Geno added a couple of walk-ons about 4-5 years ago, there weren't enough players to scrimmage.
|
I've seen UConn practices. My main reason for opposing male practice players is that they are the primary defensive opponent of the starting team during home practices. The bench players, as a unit, do not as regularly serve as the defenders against the starters, at least from what I saw.
Using males as the primary defensive team is, to me, an obvious disincentive for the coaching staff to train the benchers to be the best defensive unit possible. The following mindset is surely irresistible: "Since we're going to play these mid and lower benchers only in garbage time of massacres -- if ever -- why should we really care how good they are at defending. Why waste our limited time teaching them sophisticated UConn defense against the starters when we can be teaching that defense to the more important male practice players instead."
This diminishes the college basketball experience for these motivated and dedicated bench players during home practices. They go four years without ever being given the responsibility to play in contested minutes, they only play in garbage time, and they aren't even the focus of the best possible coaching during home practices. They must feel like third class, disposable items.
Male practice players can't travel with the team. So, in order to have a five player defensive unit to play against the starters during road practices, the team must have at least 10 players. That's why Geno recruited two walk-ons several years ago.
If there were no male practice players and the benchers all had much more defensive coaching attention, they would surely look much better defensively during garbage time. These are high level, trainable athletes for defense, even though they may not have the offensive skills of UConn's elite top rotation. |
|
ArtBest23
Joined: 02 Jul 2013 Posts: 14550
Back to top |
|
GlennMacGrady
Joined: 03 Jan 2005 Posts: 8225 Location: Heisenberg
Back to top |
Posted: 11/21/17 3:50 pm ::: |
Reply |
|
ArtBest23 wrote: |
Yeah, that would be great having Stevens and Samuelson and Collier and Williams practicing against 5'10" guards. I'm sure that would get the starters well prepared. |
Don't really understand the point. Banning male practice players would obviously have to apply to all schools. Then, it would be part of every WCBB coach's recruiting and teaching responsibilities to get the best play out of their team using only their team during practices.
Probably nothing much would change regarding the performance and success WCBB teams, either absolutely or relatively, except for the coaching staff who is not competent enough to recruit, train and retain vigorous practice teams. |
|
tfan
Joined: 31 May 2010 Posts: 9604
Back to top |
Posted: 11/21/17 6:05 pm ::: |
Reply |
|
ArtBest23 wrote: |
tfan wrote: |
Irrelevant whether they like to do it or not. |
You know whose feelings are even less relevant to the issue? Got a mirror handy? |
Actually, the feelings of posters are very relevant on a message board when discussing their opinion on various topics.
|
|
ArtBest23
Joined: 02 Jul 2013 Posts: 14550
Back to top |
|
|
|