rhodyfan3000 wrote: ↑4 years ago I'm telling you, it won't matter.
This team, the URI team, isn't going to all of a sudden become something they aren't. I know people, desperately, want them to all of a sudden, flip a switch, and decimate a lower ranked team, but it's not going to happen. And you can crunch the numbers all you want, but it's not based on numbers.
What started this 6 game win streak? Do you remember?
It was sitting Fatts to start the game. And very few people caught the significance of that. It still amazes me that so few people on here realize what was going on there.
Remember when someone said during LaSalle, that Cox, like Skinner, believes the second half "is the half that matters"? That's what is going on here. This team plays best, when it's behind. They came out like gang busters against Maryland, only to watch Maryland take the second half and pass them in the high speed lane.
Cox wants to be the team doing the passing, not vice versa.
He actually handicapped himself against LaSalle, keeping CL out the last 10 minutes of the first half, and allowed them to go ahead.
He did the same thing last game, as soon as Fatts got in foul trouble, he yanked him, for nearly the entire 10 mins before the half.
Watch for the same thing this game. Either CL, Fatts, Jeff, or the first starter to get into foul trouble, he'll pull for the duration of the half, let the team play handicapped for the rest of the half. It's kind of like drafting in NASCAR.
That's how this game will go. That is the game plan.
The game plan is: use the first half to size up your opponent. Scout them, check their tendencies, push them, pull them, find their pressure points, and then make a bunch of adjustments at half time and come out of the locker room like a completely different team.
I really think that was the major adjustment, when we lost against Brown and Richmond, and it was do something drastic, or risk watching the season go down the crapper.
Yup.
Cardiac kids baby - hell of a ride the rest of the way!