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[QUOTE="Cowtown, post: 1318263, member: 2350"]
Hmmm, running outdoors on grass vs. playing basketball: stops & starts, sprints, repeatedly jumping 40" in the air, boxing out a guy 4" taller & 40 pounds heavier, controlling a bouncing ball while moving as fast as you can while someone else tries to take it away, getting a charlie horse in the thigh, an elbow in the ear, getting run over drawing a charge, stepping on someone else's ankle and rolling your own, sitting on a bench for 15 minutes after you warm up and then come into the game to sprint the length of the floor ... yeah, they're the same ... sure they are ...

I ran on my college XC team and I played college basketball. True. Stop comparing the two because they're not the same thing. Frank Shorter was not Walt Frazier.

Are SU's kids tired this year? I don't know because I don't get the games where I live. Although I did last year, and they were dead tired in February from doing all the above for four months in the glare of the national spotlight. No, I'm not a doctor, but I don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

edit: In my last year coaching at my HS, we had 7 league games and two tournaments in February (won both), with playoffs beginning the first week in March, and we made the final that year. That made 16 games in 5 weeks. My kids were flat out exhausted, and I was running 'em 11 deep. I felt bad making 'em come to practice, even when all we did was shoot-arounds.
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