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| carney2 |
Army Beats BucknellIn Buffalo, no less. Is this the strangest League ever?Anyway, the Pards now end the 1st half all alone in 1st place. |
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| carney2 |
Standings at the break:
1. Lafayette 5-2 2. American 4-3 Lehigh 4-3 Bucknell 4-3 5. Colgate 3-4 Army 3-4 Navy 3-4 8. Holy Cross 2-5 The 2nd half will look like an 8 car pileup. |
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| Xboreturns |
I guess we should start studying up on the tie-breakers. | ||
| Pard4Life |
Insanity! Holy Cross still shocks me and I don't know what to think about bucknell. American is the biggest threat to the pards (I think the lehigh game was a fluke). I think the tie breaker is head to head, common opponents, and RPI. | ||
| bison137 |
Tiebreakers are as follows: 1. head to head 2. record vs 3rd place team, then 4th place team etc until tie is broken 3. rpi 4. record vs common ooc opponents 5. the ever-popular coin toss As for Bucknell, if Flannery returns soon I think they will be a factor. If he does not, then they are a longshot. |
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| TheTruth |
Bison137: Do you think Flannery should come back this year? And does the school expect him to return? Based on past history, I think they should shut him down for the year so they figure out what is going on and reduce his stress levels. | ||
| bison137 |
I really have no opinion since I'm not privy to any of the medical info. All I know is that the reports are that they have found nothing wrong at all after days of tests. In January 2005 when he had a similar incident, which apparently was stress-related, he was out two weeks - missing 3 1/2 games. When he returned, he had no further symptoms and was fine for the next few years. During much of the two weeks that he was out, he was still involved in practices. The issue reportedly is that he is simply too much of a perfectionist - one who has a difficult time letting mistakes go and who is driven, perhaps too much, to succeed. David Jones had some interesting thoughts in the Patriot News last week, although some of it is just his speculation. A few excerpts: "...The true teacher of the game of basketball is a choreographer. All the twists and pivots and flashes of the players must be synchronic and just so. Otherwise, the play doesn't work. And when the play doesn't work, whether it's because of some kid who doesn't understand its nuance or because it's spoiled by the whistle of some persnickety official or because it's ruined by a bright opposing player, well, it drives them nuts. Welcome to Pat Flannery's world. Right now, it's put him in the hospital. Again. And he knows he doesn't belong there. And these doctors keep poking him. And everyone's trying to calm him. But he's already calm. It was just that one moment Wednesday night when he couldn't deal with everything that was going on. I've gotten to know the Bucknell coach fairly well. He's this perfectionist type. And it hurts his body. This isn't the first time the game has put him in the hospital. It might not be the last. And, every time they bring him in, the doctors can't really find anything physically wrong with him. That's because the source of his malady is no longer present. It was left back at the gym. You can't see it. You can't test it. You can't run an MRI on it. And the only sound it makes is the echo of a bouncing ball..... At intermission of Bucknell's home victory over Lafayette on Jan. 21 2005, Flannery found himself telling assistant Bryan Goodman in the locker room, "I can't do this." He never came out for the second half. He went home. Two days later, he announced he was taking a leave of absence. That leave lasted three games. Flannery stayed home and played with his boys, Jesse and Ryan, and took walks with his loving wife, Patti. He talked to Penn State sports psychologist Dave Yukelson about all the pressure he was applying to himself. And he listened. He tried to realize that the 26th time watching the same game tape did not really make him an incrementally better coach than 25 times would have..... Flannery returned on Feb. 4 for a win at Lafayette. And you know the rest. The Bison, equipped with five interlocked starting parts the likes of which the Patriot League had never seen, listened intently to their coach, did almost everything he said, and embarked on a run that spanned two conference titles, two NCAA tournaments and upsets of Kansas (2005) and Arkansas ('06). The last year and a half have been pedestrian in comparison, though successful by any other standard. Flannery's Bison, manned by more callow players, crippled by injuries in '06-07 and this season, still verged on winning the conference last year and could this one. They trail the leader by only a game. But Flannery feels inside he has raised the bar for himself and his program, and I suspect he's reapplying that internal pressure, even though he may never again see the likes of those perfectly melded teams of '05 and '06. http://www.pennlive.com/columns/p...670.xml&coll=1&thispage=1 |
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| TheTruth |
Thanks bison137. It sounds like he needs to see a therapist first to learn to control his perfectionism. | ||