Friday, December 25, 2015

A quick study

This next week will be critical to this team. After the holiday break, we are going to have a few days to fix the things that are wrong heading into the conference season. Assuming the AD is willing to and can afford to send us to one of the pay-to-play post-season tournaments, it seems obvious that we are likely still to be playing after the SBC tournament one way or the other; and that is very important to this program at this juncture.

This is a veteran team. Our only scholarship players who are not upper-classmen are Deondre Burns and Oliver Black, and Black is redshirting. So these guys have been "around the Horn" already. All the upperclassmen have played for at least one other head coach previously. Plus, unless some of them are just unusually hard-headed (which I have not seen), by this point they ought to be convinced that Coach Beard knows what he is talking about. Whatever points he emphasizes this next week, I think they will acknowledge and learn, and so we ought to go into conference play with a few of the holes in the dike plugged. Our roster is what it is, but we ought to be able to compensate successfully for the few deficiencies we have if we follow the Doctor's prescription.

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