Arachnid
Bench player
I would have thought I was reading as article from The Onion. Probably behind RTD firewall
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If I didn’t know better
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CityStadiumFan
Bench player
I love the “ease into it” paragraph. Coach, we started strong and faded as A-10 play began because our OOC schedule was terrible and we weren’t very good.
Urmite
Starter
Top 10 nationally NIL
Top 10 OOC
And Top 10 AP ranking
Oh wait JOC didn’t write that, I did…
This is just the JOC summary of the Mooney portion of the press conference that was posted on here last week.
JOC latched onto (1) Player retention may not be the key to a successful team (2) Playing 2 bigs (3) Changing the Summer preparation back to the old way - ease into it, that @carolinaspider mentions above.
Seeing those 3 things in print make me wonder even more about Mooney. Last week I said “circular references and no plan”. Today, I am thinking totally lost and no clue.
It's all just from the latest press conference that's on YouTube. But the three things are:
- Focusing on the portal, retention may not as important as used to think
- Potentially playing two bigs at once
- Easing into summer and fall practices so guys are fresh at the start of the games and will hold up over the course of a long season
So yes, it does read like The Onion.
- Focusing on the portal, retention may not as important as used to think
- Potentially playing two bigs at once
- Easing into summer and fall practices so guys are fresh at the start of the games and will hold up over the course of a long season
So yes, it does read like The Onion.
97spiderfan
Starter
Can you imagine Hurley, Lloyd, Scheyer, literally any successful D-1 coach saying we need to ease off on practice intensity so the players don't get tired during games. WTF?
Also his big change the past 2 years was getting going on summer practices earlier so we can get the team integrated earlier AND focusing on a 4 year players and now he is simply reversing course on both.
I keep saying how we need to engage the media more to build our program but good lord if this is the communication, maybe we should just stay in our bunker.
*23*
Assistant coach
I think all this just keeps showing that Mooney is really not the guy to be running a high level program. Realizing ours has dropped from being that. And many of us have felt that for some time that Mooney is not the guy.
I mean last off season he made a big point that we needed to ratchet up the intensity in the summer to make up for the quick turnaround of infusing new guys into the offense and defense. Now back to easing in????????????? WTF.
Reminds me of Stacy King on the Bulls. MJ was trying to figure out why he was always trying to rest himself and save himself for games. Just play hard. Just go 100% in on everything. Go to the admin and PQ and get the $ needed to have top A10 NIL. Get real assistant coaches. Get a GM. Just do the stuff necessary to be a real top program at the mid major level
I mean last off season he made a big point that we needed to ratchet up the intensity in the summer to make up for the quick turnaround of infusing new guys into the offense and defense. Now back to easing in????????????? WTF.
Reminds me of Stacy King on the Bulls. MJ was trying to figure out why he was always trying to rest himself and save himself for games. Just play hard. Just go 100% in on everything. Go to the admin and PQ and get the $ needed to have top A10 NIL. Get real assistant coaches. Get a GM. Just do the stuff necessary to be a real top program at the mid major level
sman
All A-10 player
I think it's a no brainer we shouldn't (if we have been) go full out on conditioning in June.
Summer is about weight room work and skill development. you typically lose weight over the grind of a season. now you need to add muscle.
and of course guys should be getting up 500 shots a day.
assuming you have a bunch of new guys every year, you also need to run through our offense and defense a ton to get everyone up to speed on our supposedly complicated schemes.
there used to be rules with limits on hours in the gym. most hours were restricted to individual and small group workouts. not much team work. but I think that's changed with all the turnover.
1. How about focusing on the portal while still bringing freshmen ready recruits in here?
2. It is hard enough to find one good big, especially as a non major. Playing 2 bigs together is not a recipe for success, and we won't need to play 2 bigs at once if we have the right mix of quality guards and wings, like any good team will have. A player like Tyler or Bigelow would be the ideal guy playing with a big and 3 guards.
3. Amazing that after 21 years, we still don't know the best way to prepare in the off season.
*23*
Assistant coach
And amazing that this has flip flopped 180 degrees, or is it 360 degrees from the year prior off season thought. Mooney just cannot get his head wrapped around anything. Again, maybe having a former D1 head coach or a guy that has been at succesfull programs as assistant could help consult Mooney.
