Thoughts and Musings on the season so far

[WuShock16]

Maybe they're Jerry West award voters. As always, Ron doesn't care, and he'll be not caring all the way through April.

FIFY

[Cdizzle]

Well ****, why doesn't he just give all 5 to the Sycamores then?

They need another quality loss to cement more legends on the All-Valley roster. Luckily, they still have such an opportunity on their schedule. If they can keep it within 20 this time, look for green ribbons all around.

[Ricardo del Rio]

KenPom's player of the year rankings for the MVC, as of today.

1 - Fred
2 - Ron
3 - Mock (EU)
4 - Balentine (EU)
5 - Washpun (UNI)

Errr on Washpun.

Thanks for the information.

[ShockdaWorld]

Errr on Washpun.

Thanks for the information.

He was very effective in the non conference season, against B12-2 and ACC teams that don't have much desire defensively.

[Cdizzle]

He was very effective in the non conference season, against B12-2 and ACC teams that don't have much desire defensively.

Or a scouting report.

[Signman]

Random thought... How delusional are ISUblue fans? They are having a serious conversion about whether Baker deserves 1st team and someone actually thinks they could get 2 to 3 first team All valley selections. Now I guess with the MVCs "share the wealth" mindset it wouldn't surprise me, but shouldn't be expected. Not sure that they even get 1
http://www.sycamorepride.com/showthr...ru-MVC-Article

Did a quick analysis. When Fred and Ron play in a game together their win loss record is 111 wins to only 10 defeats in the last four years. In Valley competition it is even scarier 62-3. I would say that deserves first team honors for both of them without even thinking past these numbers. To suggest, like the Indiana State fan did, that Ron should be second team is ludicrous. In fact they should figure out some way that they could tie for player of the year.

[Kung Wu]

2. The lack of good decision making the first few possessions against the press is concerning. While Evansville is a well coached team and we were on the road, against a team like Maryland or Xavier, that is not going to get it done. Fortunately, Marshall made some adjustments and it was no problem later. I am sure coach will work on this.

Keep in mind that starting back in August, Marty and his crack pot team have been analyzing HC3GM games all the way back to his Winthrop days to get an idea of how Marshall breaks a press.

He has been feeding the game footage into a neural network on their computer science department super computer breaking down every single offensive possession and recording exactly where each of our players were on the pitch. Then he had that math professor that bathes once a week and nobody ever sees come out of the math department building's basement, analyze the artificial intelligence and calculate a specific probability for each player on our squad on exactly how they would react should they be pressed. He even had it regression tested against MVC opponents.

The numbers were adjusted for time of day, probability of what type of meals were consumed, outside temperature and evapotranspiration data. How sweaty were the WSU players at the beginning of the press? Were they wearing the yellow uniforms or the blacks? Did any of them cut their hair differently indicating a different psychosocial behavior that could affect their probabity?

Not satisfied, he then decided to hire private investigators to collect as many high school video tapes of each of our players that he could. Even Zach Bush was under the microscope. All of the data was refed into the neural network, reanalyzed, regression tested, and so on until finally he had his strategy.

Then he hired local high school coaches to come in and individually coach each Ace where to be and when. The timing had to be perfect.

This went on for week after week, month after month.

All said and done, rumor has it that their players can go to each of our player's statistically likely position -- to the decimeter -- blind folded, backwards, and with fog horns blaring in their ears.

That game. THAT game. THAT would be his Battle of Midway! His Operation Overlord! This would be the game where he out maneuvered the sly General Marshall. Finally, the coveted MVC Coach of the Year trophy would be his! ALL HIS!

Muhhaahaa. MUHAHAHAHAHA. MUHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

[another shocker]

Keep in mind that starting back in August, Marty and his crack pot team have been analyzing HC3GM games all the way back to his Winthrop days to get an idea of how Marshall breaks a press.

He has been feeding the game footage into a neural network on their computer science department super computer breaking down every single offensive possession and recording exactly where each of our players were on the pitch. Then he had that math professor that bathes once a week and nobody ever sees come out of the math department building's basement, analyze the artificial intelligence and calculate a specific probability for each player on our squad on exactly how they would react should they be pressed. He even had it regression tested against MVC opponents.

The numbers were adjusted for time of day, probability of what type of meals were consumed, outside temperature and evapotranspiration data. How sweaty were the WSU players at the beginning of the press? Were they wearing the yellow uniforms or the blacks? Did any of them cut their hair differently indicating a different psychosocial behavior that could affect their probabity?

Not satisfied, he then decided to hire private investigators to collect as many high school video tapes of each of our players that he could. Even Zach Bush was under the microscope. All of the data was refed into the neural network, reanalyzed, regression tested, and so on until finally he had his strategy.

Then he hired local high school coaches to come in and individually coach each Ace where to be and when. The timing had to be perfect.

This went on for week after week, month after month.

All said and done, rumor has it that their players can go to each of our player's statistically likely position -- to the decimeter -- blind folded, backwards, and with fog horns blaring in their ears.

That game. THAT game. THAT would be his Battle of Midway! His Operation Overlord! This would be the game where he out maneuvered the sly General Marshall. Finally, the coveted MVC Coach of the Year trophy would be his! ALL HIS!

Muhhaahaa. MUHAHAHAHAHA. MUHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

orson "citizen kane" welles himself would approve of this writing

[bleednblackngold]

Keep in mind that starting back in August, Marty and his crack pot team have been analyzing HC3GM games all the way back to his Winthrop days to get an idea of how Marshall breaks a press.

He has been feeding the game footage into a neural network on their computer science department super computer breaking down every single offensive possession and recording exactly where each of our players were on the pitch. Then he had that math professor that bathes once a week and nobody ever sees come out of the math department building's basement, analyze the artificial intelligence and calculate a specific probability for each player on our squad on exactly how they would react should they be pressed. He even had it regression tested against MVC opponents.

The numbers were adjusted for time of day, probability of what type of meals were consumed, outside temperature and evapotranspiration data. How sweaty were the WSU players at the beginning of the press? Were they wearing the yellow uniforms or the blacks? Did any of them cut their hair differently indicating a different psychosocial behavior that could affect their probabity?

Not satisfied, he then decided to hire private investigators to collect as many high school video tapes of each of our players that he could. Even Zach Bush was under the microscope. All of the data was refed into the neural network, reanalyzed, regression tested, and so on until finally he had his strategy.

Then he hired local high school coaches to come in and individually coach each Ace where to be and when. The timing had to be perfect.

This went on for week after week, month after month.

All said and done, rumor has it that their players can go to each of our player's statistically likely position -- to the decimeter -- blind folded, backwards, and with fog horns blaring in their ears.

That game. THAT game. THAT would be his Battle of Midway! His Operation Overlord! This would be the game where he out maneuvered the sly General Marshall. Finally, the coveted MVC Coach of the Year trophy would be his! ALL HIS!

Muhhaahaa. MUHAHAHAHAHA. MUHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Very nice! You forgot to throw in the enormous amount of pizza and pasta this must have taken!