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Message: [QUOTE="CardiacCuse, post: 4587678, member: 6979"] it takes years to learn together ...how to cover for your teammates, where to move, etc... these freshman are good players but they werent ever going to come in as a big group and allow the team to have a great zone...even with 5 mcd all americans...it wouldnt happen. you see how JB always talks about how upper classmen are better etc... so JB favors the older players and keeping players around as long as possible...so his defense can work... but he needs the one and done type athletes to make the d work..not girard and jesse but those athletes arent staying for 3/4 years to make it hum. so he has lesser athletes now (partly not of his choosing, as well)...but they cant execute what is needed of them he isnt going to get 4 year studs that will make the zone work. it is simply not going to happen ever again. if theyre good enough they will leave earlier, if they arent good enough, they arent good enough. can he adjust? can he reinvent himself? is he just being stubborn? or is he doing the only thing he can to hold on as long as possible? is keeping everything as is without changing the only thing he is capable of or is this just refusal to make changes that he is capable of? is it that his system being in place and taking out all the guesswork from year to year...is that all that's allowing him to be "the coach" ? the team needs big picture adjustments...huge innovations...and an abandoment of the systems JB has kept in place for decades. [I]it could still work...if the planets align...[/I]but why hold out for that random occurance? it's time for innovation. innovation that will enable consistent winning. if JB wants to stay, I think he has to either do that ...or realize that he wont be a winner anymore...and it will get a lot uglier from here... [/QUOTE]

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