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Good follow up question.

@Jason, sometimes it is about who you know. Regardless of the outcome of the election I know you are going to be involved and I hope that you use your connections to still try and make this happen regardless.

Absolutely :-)

True the offsite hasn't made oriole as successful as you are but the offsite is very important in involving the community. The NT manager practically runs the offsite, it would be odd for a guy who joined a cpl of weeks ago to suddenly be one of the guys in charge.Namssor has been much more involved, so the transition would be smoother. That being said, you are one of the better/best managers in all of BB so it's still a tough choice.

I understand that...but keep in mind, such a transition is not difficult for me to do. Its not like I am not involved in the community, or not participating in things similar to the site...It would be very natural for me to settle into that role...also, its not like Jfarb is going away, or any of the people who are currently involved. I could see it as a bigger deal if everyone on the staff now were booted out and I had to come in, take over, and set up a whole new team. It's not like that at all...Also, most of the people involved, are people I already know and speak to on a regular basis.

Perhaps I should not have mentioned my collegiate allegiance. I've said too much! Noooo!!!

To all the candidates: If you had 110 skill points to assign to a player (excluding free throw and stamina), how would you allocate them to best suit our team’s needs?

Oooh boy, that's fun. Let's give it a whirl...
JS: 11 JR: 6
OD: 10 HN: 5
DV: 4 PA: 10
IS: 19 ID: 18
REB: 18 SB: 9

I believe that's 110. I obviously went the C/PF route. Granted, this is more fantasy than anything because this dude would be like $500k in salary and no one could own him for more than a few weeks at a time, but it sure would be lovely to have someone like this on our NT. I like my starting Centers to be well-rounded and think a lot of JS, OD, and PA couldn't hurt! Did I pass the test?

Perhaps I should not have mentioned my collegiate allegiance. I've said too much! Noooo!!!

In the interest of fairness and equality.....Boomer Sooners!! Go OU :-)

Go Ohio State!

It's a lineup term that entails leaving all positions blank of names and letting the coach decide. It has a lot of discussion in itself because it has a lot of plusses and minuses, but was used in this seasons games a couple times by the US.

To all the candidates: If you had 110 skill points to assign to a player (excluding free throw and stamina), how would you allocate them to best suit our team’s needs?

Boy, lots of directions to go here...Here is where one of my trainees is heading:

JS: 15 JR 8
OD: 20 HA 15
DR: 15 PA 15
IS: 9 ID 5
RB: 3 SB 5

110 points. He's being groomed for my Look Inside attack that I run. Only 125K too, so very affordable.

Go Ohio State!

Go where? To another scandal? Probation? Ummm, how is Tressel doing these days? Haha

Ohhh, Go Ohio State, to another Tattoo parlor!!! ahhh, I get it now :-)

To all the candidates: If you had 110 skill points to assign to a player (excluding free throw and stamina), how would you allocate them to best suit our team’s needs?

JS: 16 JR: 14
OD:20 HA: 15
DR:15 PA: 8
IS: 10 ID:4
REB: 8

Ultimately what we put on the court come game day is a product of everything we do in the entire NT as a whole. It starts with finding the young players, then developing them, involves organization and management, and ultimately, lies on tactics the day of the game. My question to the candidates is where in this entire process do you think we are getting beat? I'd also like to hear how you would try to address what you see as the area we are getting beat.

I think our process for finding and developing talent is currently AWESOME. We have threads for every age group 18-21 on the offsite (which my opponent wouldn't know about!) with over 100+ comments in many of them! The chatter about training strategies, potential caps, finding players, etc is great. And there are many great scouts for each age group, also on the offsite, so that we can find all the potential NT talent. So I don't think that's our problem.

I don't think our management or tactics or enthusiasm management is the problem either. Jfarb did a fantastic job of that. Things are so close at the world-class NT that just super small differences are key. Home court advantage was one of them this year for helping Poland win the title. Nothing we can do about that.

The one thing I might say that other countries do better than us is that they keep their homegrown talent mostly at home. Teams sacrifice their club teams for the good of their NT in some cases. I think Americans care more about winning the club title than the NT title. And there's nothing wrong with that at all, it's their choice. We train our youngsters for a while, then they get too expensive so we sell them off to Latvia or something, and some are never seen (or trained) again. Many also get their GS abused. It would be great if we could keep as many potential NT'ers in house as possible. But I honestly don't know if there's a solution to that, other than BB-mailing with the American owner to give him strategies for keeping his salary as low as possible for as long as possible.

Sorry for the essay...

I think so, pity he probably wouldn’t be able to stay in decent game shape.

Speaking of which, as the NT manager, would you encourage the creation of a David Tapia style player, even though such a player would be both financially unsustainable for the vast majority of teams and have poor market value for the team that trained him?