RockyMTblue2
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One of the greatest things for me about the NCAA championship series for me every year is it introduces me to teams and coaching staffs I would otherwise never see. The best of it is most often in the early rounds when I see really good coaching applied to lower seeded teams and they demonstrate how to attack a team with more talent but less discipline/coaching. They don't often win, but they sure make a case for some weakness in the crew that just barely beat them.
I have no doubt that the bottom half of the draw has coaches that are better than at least 1/2 of the top half coaches. As Tennessee so amply demonstrates, if you have the draw to get the high school athletes, you can be less than mediocre in the coaching realm and still plug on - that is the top end of living on a legacy but there are plenty more that come to mind.
I would like to see a big legacy team go get one of these coaches and see where it goes.
I'm convinced that one of the reasons Geno is so open in his coaching is that he knows the people who can actually absorb and apply it cannot get the recruits to put them in his league, yet he wants to see the game advance AND those who can get the recruits don't have the drive and brains to emulate his success.
I have no doubt that the bottom half of the draw has coaches that are better than at least 1/2 of the top half coaches. As Tennessee so amply demonstrates, if you have the draw to get the high school athletes, you can be less than mediocre in the coaching realm and still plug on - that is the top end of living on a legacy but there are plenty more that come to mind.
I would like to see a big legacy team go get one of these coaches and see where it goes.
I'm convinced that one of the reasons Geno is so open in his coaching is that he knows the people who can actually absorb and apply it cannot get the recruits to put them in his league, yet he wants to see the game advance AND those who can get the recruits don't have the drive and brains to emulate his success.