"And when you have a staff that is conservative in nature, (and lord knows ours
is) it exacerbates the problem because the conservative play calling keeps
games closer than they have to be, so less mop up duty for the youngsters."
Yet another way in which the OHBC was/is a genius. Most people couldn't
understand why he had such a penchant for RUTS, but - when you think about the
opposite, conservative approach we're seeing now - putting a game far out of
reach every chance you get so you can give your less experienced players some
game time seems like a stroke of genius.
Besides, the fans love RUTS, even if the opponent's fans and coaches... and
some announcers... make derisive comments about the coach who does it.
Cee
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve McKibben
To: gatortalk@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: [gatortalk] Talk about the fake
Go back and tell me the last year that we redshirted everyone, or even
half of our incoming freshman class, and we'll talk.
Fact is we sign more than twenty every year because fourth and fifth
year players are becoming more and more scarce - due to all of the various
types of attrition you mentioned.
And when you have a staff that is conservative in nature, (and lord
knows ours is) it exacerbates the problem because the conservative play calling
keeps games closer than they have to be, so less mop up duty for the
youngsters. In addition, our staff seems to set a higher standard of
(practice?) excellence before the players have earned enough "trust" to see the
field.
Your "relatively veteran team" may be so in terms of time spent on
campus, but not when it comes to minutes spent on the field.
--- On Tue, 10/12/10, John Vega <zebu...@gate.net> wrote:
On Oct 12, 2010, at 11:20 AM, Steve McKibben wrote:
If you have 85 scholarship players, 50 underclassmen is a lot.
If you sign 20 players every class, redshirt everyone, and lost only
1.5 players each year due to transfers, grades, stolen computers and the ilk,
your classes stack out as follows:
20 True Freshmen
18.5 Redshirt Freshmen
17 Redshirt Sophomores
15.5 Redshirt Juniors
14 Redshirt Seniors
Total: 85, of which 55 are Freshmen and Sophomores.
That would mean that a team with only 50 underclassmen is a
relatively veteran team.
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