Building a team - Basketball or Baseball?

[FlabLoser]

To build a baseball team, you need 9 starters. And you need very good pitching. No other sport, except maybe ice hockey, has so much riding on one position. And you can't have just one good pitcher - you need several.

Basketball? You need 5 starters and some bench depth. You really only need 2-3 really good players and the rest can get by with just average to better-than-average.

Seems that building a basketball team should be a lot easier than building a baseball team. See where this is going?

Our washed up former baseball coach managed to make a world series in his last years. Our brand new baseball coach made the sweet sixteen so to speak, and is one game away from a college world series.

Basketball?

Scott, its time. Actually, it was time a few months ago.

I hope grasshopper has a ninja-style basketball coach short list ready. And I hope he is ready to pull the trigger the day after MSU's basketball season ends on a game that isn't the sweet 16 or better.

 

[Todd4State]

You could conceivably do the Calipari plan and pay five McDonald's All-Americans and then like you said, maybe have a solid sixth man and you have a chance at a NC.

In baseball, your first year as a coach is with someone else's players. And then they give you about a month to put together your first class. So, the first two years are definately an uphill climb.

Heck, Augie Garrido had a losing season his second year after having a winning season his first year at Texas.

 

[coursesuper]

after that you can work with it.

 

[missouridawg]

Dan Mullen and John Cohen showing that great coaches get what they want. They've absolutely put a microscope on Stansbury and all of his shortcomings. A great coach would adapt and make changes... Stansbury has yet to try anything new.

 

[Coach34]

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[Todd4State]

If you are strong up the middle in baseball, you will have a strong team. Just power guys to the corners.