Sprinkle Era Begins Game Thread

[Seattle or Bust]

They were down at halftime to SPU. yikes.

I went again.

Ya the energy was atrocious for the first 20 minutes. They were slow and lacked a ton of effort.

There musta been a pretty serious half-time meltdown by Sprinkle. I was paying close attention to his demeanor in the first game... very calm, just sort of stood there. Same with the first half of the SPU game.

Second half the guy was raging. If you fucked up you heard about it. Whole energy of the team picked up and they musta forced 15 turnovers and 30 deflections. All of a sudden they were driving and kicking instead of just passing it around the perimeter. All of a sudden guys were stepping into their shots with confidence instead of being sheepish about shooting.

I don't know why it is that you have to coach that energy into your players. That's not a good sign.

[Michael K.]

I don't know why it is that you have to coach that energy into your players. That's not a good sign.

It's only going to get worse. Everyone is entitled. HS isn't much better, but imagine coaching a group of late teens or early twenties kids that all think they are the greatest, all think they should be making huge money just to play college ball and all of whom are going to up and transfer, with no repercussion, as soon as they don't like something.

This is the first year probably since ESPN was invented that I have paid almost no attention to college football....and I haven't paid much attention to college basketball in years already. Same reason. They are all just paid mercenaries now...will all be gone in a month or two anyway.

The system is broken. It's time to just assign a salary level for these kids. Call it a contract, and treat it as such. You want to leave before your Junior year? It's a breach of contract and you have to pay a buy out. Otherwise? Once these kids take the money, they are under contract.

It won't happen because the NCAA is stupid and this is always how it is. It took them decades to bring in a "playoff", and even that was just two teams. Then? They decided...hey, there are five Conferences and over 100 teams, we should have four teams in the playoffs! How many years before they realized how stupid that was?

[Seattle or Bust]

They beat UMass Lowell by 5 yesterday.

Gonzaga beat UMass Lowell by 59 points a couple days prior.

No bueno.

[D-train]

They beat UMass Lowell by 5 yesterday.

Gonzaga beat UMass Lowell by 59 points a couple days prior.

No bueno.

Good God. Wait until next season I guess.