You said you were “actively hoping” for blow-out losses to end the season.
(while claiming Henderson gave up on the year). With fans like you, we don’t need
Penn people.
To be fair, many folks who run NBA teams have pivoted to valuing losses in the very near term for a long term outcome.
Last I checked, the Ivies did not have a draft lottery.
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Good – that wasn’t clear on my part. As I understood it, gokinsmen’s suggestion was that a few big losses near the end of the season might increase a little bit the odds of searching for a new head coach. The analogy would be between the expected utility of that and the utility of good draft position. Whether searching for a new coach has high expected utility is of course a separate issue.
Fair enough. My point was simply that if you are a Princeton fan, you want the kids on the team to win. You don’t root against them for any reason, and certainly not because you
don’t like the coach, particularly when there is no hint he has done anything truly wrong
(cheated, abused players)
MikeKHaha, I remember that guy’s site.
I would love to have him back, as Cornell fans are largely absent from this site.
A fixture on the old ivy board well before he started his own site. Unfortunately the level of Cornell fandom, IMO, was not usually matched either by historical or then-current factual awareness.
Yeah, but he was FUN!
Were you active on the old site during the dark ages of the Scott era? Because even then I don’t think posters were as hard on Scott as he clearly deserved.
That looked a lot better, obviously. One trait of this year’s edition is that their offense affects their defense (not a good thing when it’s about effort rather than turnovers), and the early shooting success seemed to buoy up the boys. DD only had one or two really bad turnovers, Hicke only had one, there was lots more team offense, and the decisions on when to iso and when to shoot and when to pass looked a lot more coherent. Especially nice to see Huggins flourish out there without much help from foul-plagued Abdulahi and Seals continue his good play of late.
It is a shame that so many winning chances this season were squandered, but I did like Judson Wallace as a new color guy with a more direct tone about player effort, the difference between being solid and being really good, etc. His long playing experience in Europe and the ups and downs he faced at Princeton make him interesting to listen to despite his inexperience. (He probably should have talked about twice as much about Dartmouth as he did though–home bias isn’t just about how you see the referees.)
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