Missouri S&T Exhibition
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Is this year’s team better than last years?
Genuine question, I’m apathetic and don’t pay close attention anymore
Genuine question, I’m apathetic and don’t pay close attention anymore
It’s just a little different. Hard to say much more until we see some more of the body of work.
Football…. The basketball team won’t be relying on true freshman to win games. I hope that the young guys can contribute, but we won’t roll out a hoops lineup full of 18-19 year olds to compete against grown men like FB.
I don't understand how any of you are taking an exhibition game with anything more than a grain of salt. If you are predicting our season off an exhibition game...that's weak. See how they do Monday and then start forming opinions. If you picked your superbowl champion by their preseason record you would have the wrong team almost every single year.
Agree a bit. But I think the early panic comes from the last several years and not just this exhibition game. But this game brought on the fear of "oh no, we suck again" mentality and I understand it. I know it was "just an exhibition game" and we were maybe trying different things. I even read above someone pointed out that maybe we let it be a close game for more experience. If that is true, we do have the wrong coach again. We should be using these games to get a feel for winning games. Unfortunately to me, it feels like another year of the same. I hope not.
Exhibition games are literally designed as one last chance before a season starts to see where you are lacking. Where you need to practice more, get stronger, and what you can build upon. It's to get that 1-2 weeks of closed practices to really get prepared for opening game. A coach who uses exhibitions only to get a "W" is doing it wrong in my opinion. You don't learn anything from that. You need those games to find those weaknesses and improve upon them. Put them in rough scenarios and see how they do.
I disagree whole heartedly. The team and fan base needs W's and momentum right now. If TU was coming off successful seasons, i could get behind that mentality. But right now, nothing is more important than winning for the program even if it is just an exhibition.
That teaches the coach nothing of his team. He went out and did that the first exhibition and won by what?? 40. This one was to find weaknesses. Winning doesnt tell you where you are weak. Would you rather see a rough exhibition that he can go in and fix and not count against us? Or see something bad happen week 2 and we lose because we didnt find anything out in our exhibition and it could have been addressed weeks before?
Well, usually coaches schedule exhibitions against lower division teams so they can do the things you said and still get the easy W. Most coaches don't have to choose one or the other. That's the concern. We should be able to play the end of the bench and win by 20.
If this is his logic then we should be playing a real team that can stretch us. The fact that MOST and not Drake or Ill. St. stretched us is concerning.
Funny that one team can consider it an exhibition in their schedule while the other teams doesn’t…
When is a friendly not a friendly?
When is a friendly not a friendly?
This seems obvious to me, and it's an idea that rightly or wrongly is well entrenched in sports culture, that when a lower team plays a higher team, the lower team is motivated to give it their all and the higher team might slack. You hear this a lot when a higher team talks about a lower team like "this was their super bowl" or the best team is like "every team brings their A game against us." I'd expect a bunch of DII kids to work like crazy to beat a DI team. And the coach probably looks at the value of the game for the DII team differently than the DI team. Maybe I'm not understanding your point because it seems obvious.
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