Norwich Bulletin: Parity showing its face early

[rocky_warrior]

Another good article out of Connecticut.
http://www.norwichbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006612140357

Some excerpts:

"We pushed the games up a week, but we didn't start practice earlier," said Marquette coach Tom Crean, who has the Golden Eagles at No. 20 despite two losses, including a home upset by North Dakota State. "That's fine. I think everybody's excited to be playing games. Inside of that, you've got to do a lot of teaching inside the game."

Boeheim, playing six degrees of separation, later used an example of listing schools to beat one opponent, which in turn knocked off another. In the end, the food chain indicated Brown should be able to beat defending national champion Florida, which would obviously be hard to argue.

[Nukem2]

The early schedules do have a great impact with experienced teams getting an edge early.  Not so many years ago, the first regular season games were after Thanksgiving.  This year, MU already had 11 games in after the UW game last Saturday.  That takes literally weeks away from early season practices as compared to back when.  Certainly does make a difference.  Gameplanning instead of working on things, etc.  Thought the NCAA wants to  focus on the student in student athlete...?  So, nowadays, we have more games and earlier games.  The quality of play has to suffer in the early going when the start of practice is the same.

[bheitz]

So, nowadays, we have more games and earlier games.  The quality of play has to suffer in the early going when the start of practice is the same.

Wait a frickin' minute!  The quality of play suffers AND the quality of the opponents sucks!  WTF!

THAT'S IT!  I'M DONE!

[Nukem2]

Yawn....