Synergy

[W'boro'Cuse315]

 

[M2MPrinciples]

But how are we at ideating? Let’s bluesky the low-hanging fruit, no need to reinvent the wheel. We can circle back if anyone doesn’t have bandwidth but let’s move the needle with some paradigm shifts to put us on the bleeding edge.

 

[SUFan44]

Well I guess we have no shot then. Council is in his last year of eligibility.

False. He will get a year back with the new JUCO rule. St. Bonaventure is working like crazy to keep him.

 

[miamicuse]

And yet there is still a "Top 25" and good teams rise, often quickly, to win games out of the box and grab those spots.

Nowadays, good coaches coach effective, basic, modern game plans that don't require half a season+ to implement effectively or require repetitive long amounts of game time for players to gel and get effective. They get their "team" to play as a team and tune out the competing nil bags and competing dramas that can arise.

No one says it's easy, but it's not some ridiculously complicated enigma that we can't possibly figure out either... At least for the right coach.

Oh I don't disagree with your points, I am simply saying in the NIL world with the transfer portal, synergy is much more challenging to achieve compared to previously when JB was coaching most of the time.

I bet players are all thinking one season at this school and my next stop is a school with a bigger bag. They are much less likely to find ways to make other players better.

They are mostly concerned about their own stats because more points for me means less points for other players and hopefully a better offer end of season.

where before you try to get along with your teammates who are usually your roommates because you may be together for 4 years so you might as well get along.

They know even if they stay, the NIL will have a shuffle at the end of season. So you want to get the biggest piece of pie and may be, just may be, you want your biggest "competition" to move on.

There are schools who are doing better in this than others. I don't know if the lack of motivation to play defense is part of this problem. Obviously Red hasn't been able to motivate them to sacrifice for each other for the team's overall performance.

There will always be top 25 regardless. If there is such a thing as a "synergy index" and every D1 school has 20% less synergy the ones on top will still be the ones on top, just that the cuse has a big drop off in talent, synergy and motivation all rolled together.

 

[IthacaMatt]

But Red should have a basic idea of how certain guys would fit together.

An obvious mistake this year was having our 2 guys in our starting backcourt that couldn’t shoot 3s. But this shouldn’t have been a surprise….

Lampkin and Davis have never been rim protectors in college. I don’t think they expected Donnie to be much of one either. They knew Bell and Starling were subpar perimeter defenders. Maybe Red was expecting more from McLeod. But this was a major issue this year that we easily saw coming.

We didn’t have enough varying skill sets this year. Red has to do better t at that this time

Yeah, but most people would have thought, pre-season, that he would have played the guys - at least sometimes - who could address the short-comings of others. It's the whole reason you have a bench.

 

[IthacaMatt]

I think when the portal adds all happened and we said Who? That was when. Also I looked up Carlos and he looked like he was 5’9. I don’t care if that works some places but I know short guys do not work in the dome.

Let’s do the opposite this year and actually get some studs.

Yeah, not getting Leffew and having to settle for Carlos was a bad sign, but it was still only 1 guy. We thought we would get contributions from Westry and Cuffe back in October, and that JJ would improve, not regress.

 

[IthacaMatt]

But how are we at ideating? Let’s bluesky the low-hanging fruit, no need to reinvent the wheel. We can circle back if anyone doesn’t have bandwidth but let’s move the needle with some paradigm shifts to put us on the bleeding edge.

My favorite new ones of those that I absolutely hate is "cohort". OMG, kill me now.

 

[HRE Otto IV]

With players on a one year contract and HS kids typically not committing until their SR season starts, is there a point in having a HC on anything longer than a 3 year contract?

If there is no stability in the roster, what is the advantage in a long term commitment to a HC? It would protect the school from a bad hire. If the HC has a good season he gets a 1 year extension every year. A bad season and you go.

It will never happen because schools are still run like academic institutions and not pro sport franchises, but it would be in the school's best interests. They really hold the leverage but somehow the HCs take advantage of the naivety of the schools.

The contracts HCs get are insane. Even more so in FB. Although in FB you need 5 years, as it is more developmental.

 

[IthacaMatt]

With players on a one year contract and HS kids typically not committing until their SR season starts, is there a point in having a HC on anything longer than a 3 year contract?

If there is no stability in the roster, what is the advantage in a long term commitment to a HC? It would protect the school from a bad hire. If the HC has a good season he gets a 1 year extension every year. A bad season and you go.

It will never happen because schools are still run like academic institutions and not pro sport franchises, but it would be in the school's best interests. They really hold the leverage but somehow the HCs take advantage of the naivety of the schools.

The contracts HCs get are insane. Even more so in FB. Although in FB you need 5 years, as it is more developmental.

This is just too sensible.

 

[Col. Bleep]

Well I want 1+1=11.

Now you're talking synergy!

I was not a math major.
But I do believe i synergy.
Because one thing I do know is that 7 x 13 = 28