Does USC’s basketballl youth justify the Trojans winning five games in two years while Washington State won six already this year and still has two games left in Pac-12 play?
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Wolfie – please start blogging for Washington State sports. Can’t wait to read about their campus statues, coaching shoes, building gargoyles, beautiful football stadium, horrendous football tradition – and it would be especially fun to see if you’d wear different sweatshirts or if you’d still label yourself a Swordsman all the time.
Washington St. 10 – Klown U. 7 – Now that’s tradition Stinky.
More Klown U tradition – SUCC Men’s Basketball: Gets the Pac-12 Booby prize for their last place finish @ 3 – 15.
Only you can put an end to cyber-bullying!
Well, apparently so can Curt Schilling….
Wait a minute, Washongpn State isn’t even in the Pac-12. Wasn’t the Washongpn tribe located primarily in the Hudson River Valley? Part of the Iroquois Confederacy, I think.
Sounds to me like a team ThaiMex would follow.
At their sports arena, you have to ask to see the menu of dishes too spicy for most gringos.
“Washongpn State” – I guess it’s 5 o’clock somewhere, but c’mon Wolfie. Day drinking again?
Isn’t Washongpn located just east of the Shandong province in China?…. TOO quick a thought, obviously…..
USC isn’t that young of a team. The problem is Wolf is echoing the stats put out by stat sheet which has one of the most ridiculously convoluted ways of measuring how “young” a team is.
Their average contains the average class year per minute played. The sum of minutes each player plays is multiplied by their class year (Freshmen = 1, Sophomore = 2, Junior = 3, and Senior = 4) and is divided by the total team minutes.
I don’t know why it would instead be class year on average, period. Or minutes played, period. Or even minutes played at school (though you really can’t discount experience elsewhere that transfers come with).
Not for nothing, in 2014 the team that narrowly lost the national championship game, Kentucky, was by any measure the youngest team in the nation.
What’s so bad about that methodology? It’s just a way of weighting the numbers. Having senior walk-ons who don’t play shouldn’t really factor in. Of course Kentucky’s young but they’re also future NBA 1st rounders.
Having 7 McDonalds All-Americans on your team would make any coach look good….
Yeah, immediately. In college hoops you don’t get 3 years to develop talent. Each year is a cycle. Kentucky and others prove that.
That is how hoops is in this era.
Enfield got the #16 class last year (and heralded if underachieving transfers from his first year).
But he coaches it to far below what the talent indicates. Calipari did more with less now he is doing more with more.
Worst part is, in this era, when the talented but not-NBA ready players think the coaches suck, they transfer. That has already happened and with Enfield leading us to a dead last finish finish two years in a row, it will happen again.
Yeah, immediately. In college hoops you don’t get 3 years to develop talent. Each year is a cycle. Kentucky and others prove that.
That is how hoops is in this era.
Enfield got the #16 class last year (and heralded if underachieving transfers from his first year).
But Enfield coaches it to far below what the talent indicates. Calipari on the other hand did more with less now he is doing more with more.
Worst part is, in this era, when the talented but not-NBA ready players think the coaches suck, they transfer. That has already happened at SC and with Enfield leading us to a dead last finish finish two years in a row, it will happen again.
You’ve got at least 15 FIVE STAR Recruits on your football team….and they’re only slightly better than your basketball team…
can i get a fite on shout out?
That methodology doesn’t reflect what is a simple measurement of experience. It’s really that simple.
But as to what you said regarding refining it – that bench players that don’t see time should not be included, there might be relevant. But that is not what the methodology used by that b.s. stat site that Wolf keeps quoting and promoting (because Enfield is being nice to him to stop Wolf from criticizing him. How pathetic).
By virtually any rational measurement, (how many minutes played) their statistics are way off. And they were too lazy to factor in pre transfer minutes.
What’s the site? In the end, how young they really are is pretty irrelevant at this point. If they don’t take a big step forward next year, Enfield has to go.
I still say Mr. Dunk City was a solid hire for So Cal. Perhaps appropriate hire is more to the point.
Kudos to St. Pat’s National Search Firm that sifted through the silt to land that nugget and is there to take the blame when needed. What was their name again?
Har Har Har Pat Haden is an unlucky incompetent who is afraid of hiring experienced adults because of his insecurity. But I wouldn’t gloat bRuin.
Wait til Guerrero screws it up again in Westwood, and he will because he always gets big headed. Firing Howland? Look where that got him.
Is being young an excuse for failure? If UCLA or Kentucky has a “young” team, does this mean we should “expect” just 3 conference wins?!! NO!!!
Oregon State has worse talent and they are at least competitive.
Wolf, I think you qualify to be know as one of the great minds of our time.
NOT!!!
The answer is NO! #EnfieldNotTheAnswer