(04-21-2021 10:04 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(04-21-2021 08:05 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  There are recruiting coaches, who win by out-recruiting others; preparation coaches, who win by out-scheming and out-preparing others; and game coaches, who win by making better in-game decisions than others.

Which kind is Bloomgren? Oh, wait a minute...you said "win", right? Never mind. I be be much happier when we are are discussing how Bloom wins.
But I join you and Walt in wondering what happened after 2013. It's like we got nearly to the top of the ladder and then fell off.

Some former football players will tell you that JK took money away from football (and former baseball players will tell you the same about baseball) and put it somewhere else. If the somewhere else was women's sports, then clearly there are results to show it. But that also prompts the question of whether we should be investing more in sports with upside revenue potential.

During the years that I worked stats at Rice, I also helped out Ted Nance for some games at UH. Being close to both programs was night and day. Harry Fouke (UH AD and Rice alum, where he won the Bob Quin award) used to talk to me about the differences in philosophy at the two programs. And it was interesting to watch the differences between Guy V and Yeoman. Both were very adept at finding diamonds in the rough and turning them into highly regarded players--neither Akeem nor Drexler was as highly regarded coming in, for example, as they were when they left. But they were very different types. Yeoman was very much a game coach, probably more so than any other coach I have ever known. Guy V was a practice and preparation coach. His idea of a great practice was lock the gym doors, don't call any fouls, and the last 5 standing start on Saturday. It was like northeastern inner-city street ball, and it developed players the same way that street ball does.