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Last edited by FatCurry at 7/26/2011 12:49:34 PM

What would you have done over the past two seasons that you feel would have been better than Jfarb?

Can we get back to these types of questions? As a voter what I care about is how the next NT manager is going to improve the team and continue the success, not what division the said manager is in. As a voter, I want to see a well thought out and detailed argument about why each candidate thinks he or she should be elected. Without any arguments or plans the only other way I would have to judge a manager is through his personal teams success. So if you want me to consider you and you aren't in the top divisions, tell me your plans and show me why I should vote for you.

The only people elected to be national team manager is the above average and i think it is time for change.

Preach on, brother. By definition, only half of the managers can be in the top half of managers. There's no shame in being one of the ones that makes a top half possible.

On this platform of change, are you willing to commit to a strategy of playing only 3 roster players and lucky fans for the other two? That'll make us impossible to predict, since nobody will be able to calculate the skills of our lucky fans. Down with look inside, up with look to the bleachers!

Whille I agree that a person should not be elected solely based on how high they moved up in the divisions...anyone running should be able to demonstrate that they understand everything pertaining to running a team, and not have glaring weaknesses in their own personal team.

I've only got warmed up this election.

Great! Something to look forward to! Please keep me out of your cross hairs :-)

If I get elected I want ot keep getting more support. SpF has done a great job and I want support to grow high. This will help our future because managers would want to help their country and try to get a player on the NT. I rather not share my tactics specifically because it would be a very long message, but I think that my tactics will make our team have better results in the continental and world championship.

I was waiting for you to show up.


1) Jfarb used a 2-3 very successfully versus Italy this year. Do you think that was a one time fluke or do you think 2-3 can be a viable defense in certain situations at the NT level.

2) What do you think Jfarbs greatest accomplishments and failures were in his tenure.

3) Most importantly what do you think about edju

The only people elected to be national team manager is the above average and i think it is time for change.

Preach on, brother. By definition, only half of the managers can be in the top half of managers. There's no shame in being one of the ones that makes a top half possible.

On this platform of change, are you willing to commit to a strategy of playing only 3 roster players and lucky fans for the other two? That'll make us impossible to predict, since nobody will be able to calculate the skills of our lucky fans. Down with look inside, up with look to the bleachers!

Whille I agree that a person should not be elected solely based on how high they moved up in the divisions...anyone running should be able to demonstrate that they understand everything pertaining to running a team, and not have glaring weaknesses in their own personal team.

How dare you respond to that with what appears to be a reasonable post?

I have to agree with you for the most part. Progress up the league structure is something that is a function of both time and managerial aptitude, with some luck involved as well. (Well, time is less a factor for some, who find a way to go up from 4 to 2 in two seasons, but I digress). A team that built up a huge wad of cash and VSed their way up against woefully undermatched competition, for example, might not be an ideal choice. A team that's moved up with a flexible and relatively equal squad against similar or better competition, on the other hand, has something voters can look at as being a great qualification for the job.

Lower level teams don't have the track record to rely on, so you're right that they need to demonstrate that they understand the game. I am not sure that the "glaring weaknesses" in the personal team is as much an issue if they understand what the weaknesses are and explain why they're doing that. But there's a definite standard of knowledge that has to be demonstrated, and if their club doesn't do that, they'd better be able to do so in some other way, ideally starting with volunteering with the NT/U21.

Mostly, I just get a kick out of the idea that change for change's sake is the answer to every problem. I haven't seen nearly as many elections here as other games, but it's a recurring theme -- lower level managers saying that they'll achieve success via change and that electing higher-level managers has failed so it's time to try something new. Nothing wrong with that platform if they can back it up, of course, but ... yeah. ;)

I was waiting for you to show up.


1) Jfarb used a 2-3 very successfully versus Italy this year. Do you think that was a one time fluke or do you think 2-3 can be a viable defense in certain situations at the NT level.

2) What do you think Jfarbs greatest accomplishments and failures were in his tenure.

3) Most importantly what do you think about edju

1. Honestly, the jury is still out on 2-3 in my mind. I have seen 2-3 work well, and I have seen it do things, it quite frankly shouldn't do. In my league championship I just played, I faced a guy that seemingly has the perfect team to play 2-3 against. He has zero outside shooting ability and is either a dunk or miss on 90% of his possessions. That said, all season long, I kept seeing teams that played him 2-3, and he still torched them, sometimes shooting over 50% mostly on dunks in the paint. So, I chose to stick with m2m in my finals series, knowing it did so well against him in te regular season game, and in game 1 of this series, and I closed out the series in game 3 with m2m again. I simply went with, "if its not broek, don't fix it" when it came to my defensive tactical choice in this series.

So at this point, I am more of the opinion that other defenses work better...and I would be more inclined to use a 2-3 zone in a game where I felt overmatched and needed a hail Mary to pull it out.

2. Like I said in my speech, I think Jfarb's ability communicate and draw community interest back in the program were a huge success. He built a wonderful team, has some great minds involved more now, than in recent seasons, and has some up and coming guys involved as well. I would not characterize any part of Jfarbs tenure as NT coach a failure. And in fact, if he were running again, I would not be running.

3. He sucks.

The only people elected to be national team manager is the above average and i think it is time for change.

How is this a bad thing? Don't we want the best managers possible to run the team?

I was waiting for you to show up.


1) Jfarb used a 2-3 very successfully versus Italy this year. Do you think that was a one time fluke or do you think 2-3 can be a viable defense in certain situations at the NT level.

It should also be mentioned, my opponent used 2-3 zone against me in Game 3. It was the most points he gave up all season :-)

Are you going to walk the walk? Or are you just here to talk smack?