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bleacherman, on 28 March 2012 - 10:53 AM, said:
What about a solid summer program. What happens if the players want to play in some summer tournaments that won't interfere with the coaches summer plans and the coach won't let them. I'm just tryin to get some of the aspects that make programs successful. There are some programs that have several years of successful basketball and some programs that hardly ever have successful seasons. There's got to be something consistent in successful basketball. Like I said in a previous post, some of those successful programs have had success with less than overly talented players. A programs is not going to have tons of talent for 20 to 30 years in a row. But the program has been successful all those years. Sorry if it sounds like I'm trying to beat a dead horse. It's just frustrating to see talented players wasted. The talent is there, but the wins aren't.
You look at some of the successful programs and you see the same last name over the last 30 years. With St Henry, Wayne Trace, and Kalida I can go through 3 generations of teams and the last names stay the same for the most part. So DNA is a big part of it. But when the talent is not there tradition helps to cover these slumps. Kids expect to win because they play at these schools. While schools who usually lose the kids expect to lose. I have seen it alot when a team from a winning system with less talent beats a losing program with better talent. You keep it close and in the 4th quarter you see it in their eyes waiting for the winning program to do something.
Edited by roadtoC-town, 28 March 2012 - 04:58 PM.
