The Good, The Bad, The Rockin' Little Heartbeat: Vandy Edition

[catfaninin]

And they only have Romeo for 1 year. Not capitalizing very well, huh?

Romeo is the biggest part of their problem. Yet another example of Cal knowing exactly what he is doing and avoiding a player who wouldn't have fit with his coaching.

[Catsrock]

Romeo is the biggest part of their problem. Yet another example of Cal knowing exactly what he is doing and avoiding a player who wouldn't have fit with his coaching.

Interesting. I haven't watched a second of their season and have no idea what their problems are.

[Catsrock]

Still can't believe they beat Louisville but so glad they did!

I suppose. Since they couldn't both lose. The world will never be perfect.

[Lighthouse]

That's pretty cool. The officials report, not Will's daughter being sick. Was she actually sick or just sick of his puns?

On a serious note, I would love to take in a game with you sometime. Do you do this every week?

Let me know what day would fit your schedule, Next week, I can't do Wednesday or Saturday. We can meet before or at a school close to where you live. I would love to have you set in.

And as for a G,B & U report on Will, it was all good.

[catfaninin]

Interesting. I haven't watched a second of their season and have no idea what their problems are.

Romeo is horribly overrated. Might be the laziest player I have ever saw. He spends most of his time on offense standing around. He wants to be a 3 point shooter but only makes like 20%. And can't/won't guard a tree.

But the bigger problem is that Miller seems to let him do anything he wants and holds him accountable for nothing. Seems the rest of the team has caught onto that and isn't exactly happy about it.

[KCKUKFan]

Word is that Langford is extremely unhappy in Bloomington, and has pretty much packed it in at this point.

Indiana's collapse has been monumental.

[Joneslab]

There's not much I would love more than Lighthouse doing a Good, Bad, Ugly thread on Will watching his son's basketball game. I wonder which one yelling "Put in mah boy" while spitting remnents of popcorn and spilling his peanuts while trying to pour them in his bottle of Pepsi he smuggled in would fall under?

I was yelling "Play defense!" with 1.6 seconds left and noted to Lighthouse that only parents are interested with 1.6 left in 14-point JV games.

[KCKUKFan]

I was yelling "Play defense!" with 1.6 seconds left and noted to Lighthouse that only parents are interested with 1.6 left in 14-point JV games.

Only parents are interested in JV games that are tied in six overtimes.

[Joneslab]

Only parents are interested in JV games that are tied in six overtimes.

Unless you've got some really good players out there, which some of these Louisville teams do. They have to because their varsities are stacked with older kids.

Trinity has a kid who's ranked nationally for freshmen who plays for their JV. Which makes sense because their entire starting five on the varsity team is going on to play college ball somewhere.

Their starting center on the JV team would have started varsity for us and probably led the team in scoring. He didn't dress varsity for Trinity. They have sort of a machine of a program over there...but I still have major reservations about how they assemble that machine.

[KCKUKFan]

Unless you've got some really good players out there, which some of these Louisville teams do. They have to because their varsities are stacked with older kids.

Trinity has a kid who's ranked nationally for freshmen who plays for their JV. Which makes sense because their entire starting five on the varsity team is going on to play college ball somewhere.

Their starting center on the JV team would have started varsity for us and probably led the team in scoring. He didn't dress varsity for Trinity. They have sort of a machine of a program over there...but I still have major reservations about how they assemble that machine.

I didn't take the whole Trinity thing into consideration. You're definitely right.

I was thinking of my small-town high school JV games, when the final score was usually 45-38.

[TrueblueCATfan]

Still can't believe they beat Louisville but so glad they did!

UL would kill them if they played today

[Catsrock]

Romeo is horribly overrated. Might be the laziest player I have ever saw. He spends most of his time on offense standing around. He wants to be a 3 point shooter but only makes like 20%. And can't/won't guard a tree.

But the bigger problem is that Miller seems to let him do anything he wants and holds him accountable for nothing. Seems the rest of the team has caught onto that and isn't exactly happy about it.

Miller has another home-grown gift committed for next year in 5-star Jackson-Davis. If he blows it with him too his tenure could be short.

[Catgrad7072]

They have sort of a machine of a program over there...but I still have major reservations about how they assemble that machine.

Interesting observation Will.

A lot of people have had the same reservations for a long time. As you know, dubious ?? program building has been around for ever.

With the private schools, it's a little easier to defend. When public schools mysteriously have great players move in to their attendance areas, it raises a whole different set of questions / red flags. It happened in JCPS when I taught and coached 'back in the day'.

[KCKUKFan]

Question for Will (and any other parent that sends there kids to Trinity, St. X, etc.):

Is the cost of tuition worth the education, experience, etc.? I just can't imagine paying what amounts to a college tuition for my kid to go to high school.

[JFCats22]

Question for Will (and any other parent that sends there kids to Trinity, St. X, etc.):

Is the cost of tuition worth the education, experience, etc.? I just can't imagine paying what amounts to a college tuition for my kid to go to high school.

I went to private grade school and high school (in St. Louis). When it was my oldest son's turn to go to high school we looked at them, did the tours, etc.. and then he decided to go the public school route. Luckily we live in an A+, blue ribbon rated school district which made the decision much easier.

He was also a 2x All-Region and All-State soccer player who now plays in college. He did great at the public school, despite many of the private school soccer coaches saying he wouldn't.

For us, there was no way we could have justified the cost (in STL it's $17k+ per year) to send him to a private school. The value just was not there at all.