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[QUOTE="billsin01, post: 890406, member: 837"]
I'm not sure I agree with either of these outside of the motivation/allure of early PT for recruits. But I have yet to see anywhere that simply playing has some correlation to a player's rate of development. There's a subtle difference between saying 'there's no substitute for game experience' and saying 'minutes/PT directly influence a player's rate of improvement.' Improvement has a lot more to do with how serious a player is about putting in the time/effort outside of practice/games. It's no surprise that Cooney has exploded this year when you hear how hard the kid works. I'm not trying to knock DC2 and Xmas here, but you never really hear that about them and, despite getting minutes as very young players, they are still miles and miles away from basically any projection of their ceilings.

I'm sure JB would love to get minutes for the frosh but I don't think he's going to come back next season and chalk it up as a rebuilding year due to the fact that BJ Johnson didn't log an extra 45 minutes of game time this year.
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