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28993.2 in reply to 28993.1
Date: 5/8/2008 12:09:56 AM
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Ask away - I anticipate a lot of tough, pointed questions.

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28993.3 in reply to 28993.2
Date: 5/8/2008 12:51:51 AM
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I preface this with the fact that since I was busy managing England I was not paying a large amount of attention to the US team. However I still have the following input:

Your scouting, team management, etc. was top quality. I don't think anyone can argue that. Overall, your strategy choices (at least in games of importance... i didn't look at your scrimmages) seemed fair and well intentioned. However, some of your gameday decisions left something to be desired. At times it seemed you put too much into accumulating enthusiasm instead of making sure the US made the next round first.

It seemed as if you were trying to lead this team solely to the gold, and any other finish wasn't worth a tinker's damn. So, my question for you is would you have managed the enthusiasm the same way if given the chance again?

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Date: 5/8/2008 12:59:11 AM
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It seemed as if you were trying to lead this team solely to the gold, and any other finish wasn't worth a tinker's damn. So, my question for you is would you have managed the enthusiasm the same way if given the chance again?


Absolutely not.

For one, it was abundantly clear that sitting around with good enthusiasm for scrimmages makes you look like an idiot.

Would I have CTed Australia? No, that was out of left field.

However, my belief that a Normal against Nigeria's CT would be good enough was wrong, and that cost us a chance to advance. I blew that and learned my lesson.

If I had a second chance, I'd have CTed the hell out of Nigeria and advanced, and tried to figure out a way to do something with the enthusiasm hit. I'd rather have that problem than the problem of facing the USA community after a complete failure.

You know the old saw (some would say cliche) about how if you forget the past you are doomed to repeat it?

There's no way that will happen here. 3/24/2008 (and no, I didn't have to look it up) is a bitter day for me, and that just cannot happen again.

NO ONE at this table ordered a rum & Coke
Charles: Penn has some good people
A CT? Really?
Any two will do
Any three for me
Any four will score
Any five are live
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28993.5 in reply to 28993.4
Date: 5/8/2008 5:25:24 PM
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I think you did an excellent job last time around except for the Nigeria game. My question is this:

Now that a U-?? World CUp is expected to be implemented soon (or so I've heard) how would you manage the old 22-23 year old talent with the up coming 20-21 year old talent? That is, how would you select players for the team? Best of young uns? Best overall? Mixture?

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28993.6 in reply to 28993.5
Date: 5/8/2008 5:33:14 PM
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Currently we have 139 prospects that we are tracking, and all but one is 22 or younger (the 23 y/o is NT stalwart Travis Swafford).

The plan is to select the 12 best players to start the qualifying campaign, and then add the remaining 6 over the 13-14 weeks of qualifying as needed based on training, injuries, etc.

As it stands right now, there aren't any teens that are seriously contending for a spot on the qualifying squad, but we're going to leave those 6 spots open to allow for any changes.

The pool of players is very liquid, constantly changing from week to week, and we need to stay on top of things.

To actually address your concerns about Uxx, we're tracking enough players that if such a competition was started, we could most certainly help with information sharing, and there's more than enough players to go around.

NO ONE at this table ordered a rum & Coke
Charles: Penn has some good people
A CT? Really?
Any two will do
Any three for me
Any four will score
Any five are live
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28993.9 in reply to 28993.8
Date: 5/8/2008 8:01:08 PM
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I'd like to know the answer to that question too. :)

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28993.11 in reply to 28993.8
Date: 5/8/2008 11:11:24 PM
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If there were better players who were 25, would you pick them? Or do you like the focus on younger players to help develop for the future?


If there was a 25 year old that clearly would be better than a younger player even after one season of training, I'd gladly use him.

We don't have anyone like that, so we're not, but if there was that resource available, it'd be senseless to ignore it.

NO ONE at this table ordered a rum & Coke
Charles: Penn has some good people
A CT? Really?
Any two will do
Any three for me
Any four will score
Any five are live