MGoPodcast 6.18: Autobitchin'
play this man in all kinds of weather [Bryan Fuller]
BASKETBALL
Autobench bitchin'. 1-3-1 after halftime not a great move. Would still give Beilein all my food. In praise of Spike. Center position down the road. Dawkins offer lack confusion part sixteen. Chatman! Life!
HOCKEY
Back in it. Margin of error very slim now. Werenski a terror on both ends, no matter who's defending. Goalie business.
GIMMICKY SPRING PRACTICE SECTION
TOP FIVES! Our top five most secure and least secure projected starters. You'll never guess what our least secure spot is. (You have never seen football and are naming positions in cricket.)
MUSIC
"Across 110th Street"
"King of the Road," (spectacularly drunk) REM
"Wabash Cannonball," Townes Van Zandt
"Hercules," Aaron Neville
THE USUAL LINKS
I agree with you 100% on the auto benching, but this is similar to my argument about managing relief pitching in baseball. If every coach does it it becomes more difficult to crtiticize him as opposed to the profession? I don't have any data but it appears that almost all college coaches use the auto bench as a general rule.
Are there any anayltic type coaches( or any coach in college) that don't follow this rule at all?
"as a general rule"...
But in the context of a National Championship game or this past game when the season is going nowhere, your roster is depleted, you're playing a ranked team on the road...
Then you grow a pair - trust your national player of the year point guard ... go all in and play for the freaking WIN!!
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Think he's a Class of 2016 recruit.
Has anyone asked about the auto bench in a press conference? Its maddening when the drop between players is such a chasm. I am better than Andrew Dakich and I rode the bench in high school.
Pretty much the greatest thing ever. Any of those early 80s REM studio outtakes are the best. My all time favorite is Voice of Harold when Stipe forgot the words to 7 Chinese Brothers and just read off liner notes to a record he found in the studio during his take.
Christmas Bitching is an all time favorite. There is a bootleg to a show in ottawa at barrymores from the 80's that has some amazing covers on it. also this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci7NhvYeXEk
Looks like I can't upvote right now, so take this manual response as your +1 for that link.
When you're working with young men, sometimes you have to lose a few battles to win the war.
Last year I was teaching this Div1a kid who was just a complete waste of space in terms of work ethic and classroom performance. But our head BB coach was too much of a spineless snake to discipline him. And our dean of students was also a pushover for the athletes. I can just imagine that even at a school like Michigan there are BB players with similar character defects, if not the whole suite combined in one ass-wipe. Luckily for that guy, he's over 7ft, so he was able to find a college coach that would also let him slide.
If Belien has certain rules and he sticks to them even in the face of short term games, bully for him. It helps to set expectations for the kids so that you don't have arguments or flareups down the line.
I'mma let the man with the awesome resume' do his thing without grumbling, even if I don't fully understand him. And besides, autobenching is what Norman Dale would do.
Unlike the guy above, I don't think this makes any sense at all in regards to setting standards and teaching. I think what you teach by dogmatically sticking to rules that go against reason is that you are stubborn and that you can't be fully respected and taken seriously. Maybe it's the whole nurturing parent vs stern father thing, but sticking to non-sensical things just because you are the boss is a sign of weakness or lack of intelligence.
When sticking to the rules taught a sense of trustworthyness and integrity.
I also disagree with your assessment that he's autobenching against or without reason. There may not be a reason that you or I can easily discern, but that doesn't mean there isn't a reason.
It's been my experience that doing what you say you're going to do is one of the few ways to get young men to respect you.
But, when it comes to sticking to a policy that is not mathematically sound and is demonstrably hurting your chances to win, I think you risk losing your place of trust and respect as a leader.
I don't teach kids, but in my career I have a group of 65-70 people who look to me to lead them. I have found that making a good faith effort to always consider different approaches to problems has gained me a lot more cooperation than simply laying down the law.
The Wisconsin program is in turmoil.
Behind the scenes Mike Eaves lost his team quite a long time ago, he's tried moving players around, benching his seniors, bag skates, yelling, not yelling. Nothing works.
Gary Shuchuk thinks that the players don't trust the coaches anymore, they do what they want and ignore what the coaches ask them to do. Now they're losing recruits. It's most likely the end of the Eaves era.
Weren't they good like just last year? Don't get how a team can fall apart like that so quickly.
This team lost like 80% of their goal scoring from last year. They returned I think 1 player from their Top-9 at forward and 1 defenseman from the Top-4. Almost all from graduation too.
I'd listen to an MGoPodcast about pretty much anything. I want more on the Iowa trip. Specifically, awkward interactions with (presumably) conservative Iowa folk upon meeting their niece’s “blogger” husband.
Uncle Clarence: (walking up thinking…”my god, that hair”) Pleasure meeting you Ryan
MGoWife: It’s actually Br…
Uncle Clarence: (interrupts MGoWife abruptly) I hear you write about college sports in Michigan. Detroit Free Press or News?
Brian: Well…
Uncle Clarence: (interrupts) I’ve always enjoyed the Free Press myself. The News is such a liberal rag.
MGoWife: He is the founder of MGoBlog, one of the largest college…
Aunt Marla: A blog? But what do you do for work?
Brian: MGoBlog is my work. It’s a Michigan foot…
MGoWife: (interrupts..) It's really popular. He has a degree in Enginee…..
Aunt Marla: Is that like an internet newspaper?
Uncle Clarence: No, Marla. A Blog. Like one of those gardening chat rooms you’re always on WHEN I'M TRYING TO USE THE LANDLINE. So Ryan, when you’re not “blogging” (uses “ “ hand gesture), what do you do?
can I just say as a compulsive collector of REM odd ball singles, that the inclusion of king of the road impressed me.
Well done
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