Acc Champs!

luxlibertas
Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:03:37 +0000

Yeah, you’re right, we are talking about two different situations. Sorry if I interpreted your comments wrong.

While the outcomes were pretty much decided in both the Georgetown and Duke games, they were still close enough for a “miracle” to be possible. So, I don’t think EITHER coach should be expected to remove his starters, and in most cases like this, neither does. For example, Dewey Burke didn’t play last night at the end, nor should he have.

Saying that the winning coach removing his starters to play against the losing team’s starters is brutally insulting just tells me that maybe you haven’t watched/been around as much basketball as you claim. This happens ALL the time, I’ve played in tons of games in this exact situation. It’s not at all insulting… it just shows that the winning coach has class and is not trying to run up the score. Most of the time when this happens, of course, the losing coach will then follow suit.

Rubbing a little salt in the wound would be leaving the starters in to make the score as lopsided as possible.