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Message: [QUOTE="Townie72, post: 1850190, member: 780"] With all the "I think what Townie was trying to say" posts, let me give it another shot. Baber's offense and defense (schemes, techniques, tempo, etc) are either: 1. Easy to install ( or easy to partially install to a functional level) 2. Moderately difficult to install 3. Difficult to install (to a functional level) If it's #1 - Easy to Install - We will probably see results relatively quickly. The downside of this is that if its that easy to install (not hard to learn or to operate), than it won't really be that much of an advantage longer term. And if it works and its easy to install, we'll see lots of people trying to do it and any advantage we have will be short-lived. If it is #3 - Hard to install --- that probably means SU is going to sputter for a while learning it and operating it. Those looking for a quick fix (points, points, points) are not going to be happy. This could take a year or two or even three. So, in an odd way, difficulties in 2016 might be "good news" because it means that this really is a revolutionary change. And once we get the system going, few will want to follow (even if they understood how the thing really works and how to install it.) Because fan bases --- always impatient and demanding --- are going to be screaming bloody murder at the bottom of the learning curve. Now the "scheme" learning curve --- if it is steep --- can be offset by some other things. Babers may be better at game management, play-calling, player selection, player motivation and all those basic coaching things that make coaches coaches. We will see. I am reminded of the semi-revolutionary changes Billy Bean incorporated that were described in "Moneyball". It took a while to kick in. Every time I watch the Yankees or Red Sox have those interminable At Bats fouling off pitch after pitch driving up the pitches thrown so they can get to the bullpen, I think about how revolutionary that was as a strategy. I hate it. But it works. I think I'll like Baber's offense. But this may take a couple of years to put in. And that could be good news. [/QUOTE]

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