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Didn't participate in or read debate. Voted Bballin. He's just one of the most well-liked users whose done fine tactically (grown since his U21 stint) and goes beyond his means with community and team development efforts.

Well said rajan.

Congrats bballin on winning another term, keep up the great work.

Agreed.

While other (bigger) countries have scouts and volunteers to do various aspects of helping the team (BBmailing, training plans, scouting, communicating, watching for managers going bot, etc) BBallin and I do all this legwork AND set lineups/tactics, etc.

The offsite is good for other managers to chime in with roster adds for injury/GS, and tactical decisions. It's not just the NT/U21 managers making these choices, but a handful of active offsite managers. The elected manager is the one who gets to click the buttons behind the scenes and make initial research and final decisions.

I like keeping the Canada NT for Canada, and while the outside interest is appreciated, I would hope as a community as a whole, "we got this" ourselves.

With the proposed changes, those 3 offensive and 2 defensive choices are likely to grow, and we must adapt or be further behind the curve of the stronger nations than we already are.

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Looks like former NT player Milot will be retired in about 12 hours.

Thanks for the offer, ill let the community on the offsite decide!

So with that in mind, if you want to see kozlik on Canadas offsite go vote! http://w11.zetaboards.com/BB_ECU/topic/9168480/1/. Ill look at the results on Sunday morning.

I agree with kolzik4. Grant the man access and lets see what he brings to the table.

At this point I feel this is a no brainer - 18 votes is plenty to prove that Canadians want to see what he can add.

Thanks for the offer, ill let the community on the offsite decide!

So with that in mind, if you want to see kozlik on Canadas offsite go vote! http://w11.zetaboards.com/BB_ECU/topic/9168480/1/. Ill look at the results on Sunday morning.

Just give him access, after all these seasons I still haven't figured out why the inner workings of our National Team are treated like it's some sort of top secret mission. ;)

On top of that, why can't we just vote here? Is the vote now top secret too!? You're the NT coach bballin, it's entirely your call IMO.


Last edited by Beener not Beanerz at 9/26/2013 10:47:05 PM

I think kozlik should be granted access, too. What are the chances he's trying to sabotage the team?

A better question is how could he possibly sabotage the team? I guess he could leak tactics to opponents but so could any random user from England, Nigeria, New Zealand, Canada and whichever other countries share the off-site form.

Alright a lot of things bugging me in this thread so ill just throw im into one post instead of replying to the specific posts. Id like to mention that I have had a long couple weeks and so im a little on edge, so this post may seem a little aggressive or defensive at times and I apologize for my American behaviour in advance.

1. Offsite
Ive seen things like why dont we have the vote here, why cant kozlik join if there are other foreigners on the offsite already. First off, the way the offsite is designed an admin needs to grant people access to each communities section of the forums. So when someone is accepted they dont get access to every single forum for every country. Its kept as private as each community wants it to be. Admins can grant specific people access if a community wants them to be(for example Morwood as U21 manager of England) or make parts of their community public if they dont mind everyone chiming in. So no, we run no risk of England and other countries "sabotaging" us.

Why am I having the vote on the offsite? Not cause its top secret, but because when I came up with the combined offsite idea it was a goal and a vision of having an offsite as prominent as the USA has it. I want to make it so that in the future when people go on their computer for some buzzerbeater its routine for them to open the offsite with it and check for any new posts. I want it to become a community on the offsite. Not a bunch of people with tactical opinions about the NT, but a place where club related, BB related or non BB related things can be discussed and a feeling of a community of people who all enjoy long term strategic games can have some fun, have some good conversation and kill some time with fun. Things like club team diaries which jeffjeff and Jenny started and I am guilty of not helping out with. Thats the kind of stuff. I figure its less of an all of a sudden thing and more of a gradual buildup to that so things like this vote can only help traffic.

2. Kozlik joining the offsite discussion
The fact that this is becoming such a huge topic is surprising me, but at least its bringing some kind of life and discussion to the forums. I take it you guys are all Miami Heat fans, because it isnt hard to have success with the best players. No offence to kozlik, but anyone who has posted in this thread could have the same success with Poland. Its not hard to win with 12 of the best players in BB season in, season out. His club success does demonstrate a knowledge of tactics ill give him that. He obviously understands BB, but I just dont feel like he has so much more knowledge than the crop of managers we have in Canada.

Also unless I have misunderstood everyones wishes for the NT, we want Canada to eventually become better than the Polands, Czechs, Slovakians and Spains of the BB world. Bringing them into our community is not a step towards that because when we are in a position where we could be beating those teams, theyll know our skills and we wont know theirs. Sabotage isnt what im worried about. More just taking a step in the wrong direction.

I would continue, but gotta go back to work. If kozlik gets voted in, which it seems like he will be, then its whatever. Im the kind of person that always assumes the best in people, im not worried about kozlik. I just want the best for Canada.