What If?

[fredthefalcon]

Well for the whole season, there were a lot of complaints about minutes played by certain players, so I decided to put those second guesses into action. I played the whole BG season on What If Sports.com Sim Matchup. I started Clarke at the 2G and Holmes at C. Erger was given mostly garbage bench time and Kraus was the backup at both G slots. Black was limited to 10-12 minutes a game. Other players were normal fill-ins.

So the season started out great with an 81-53 trouncing of Cleveland State in which Holmes had 19 pts and 7 blocks but the old inconsistency hit the next night in a loss to IUPUI 63-54. Really that's the way the whole season played out. Some good nights and some equally bad nights, mostly on the road. The final season W/L was 16-17 and 7-9 in the MAC. Slightly better than actual but the Falcons did win the first round MAC tourney game over Miami 82-72 before going to Cleveland for a 68-59 loss to EMU. I didn't keep the individual stats for the season (a lot of work) but Crawford broke out for 27, 26 and 24 in two victories and a loss for the most points in a game. Holmes biggest night was the opener though he led the team in losses to MSU and Wright State as well. The season's lackluster ending was a typical low scorer in which Crawford led the way as the only double digit scorer at 10. All in all, only a small improvement and principally created by using Holmes more.

[mscarn]

Very true. The issues are far greater than his rotation.

The best case scenario would be for Orr to be reassigned to team or department chaplain like several larger universities have. That way he can wear his faith on his sleeve while BG players have a chance to wear a ring on their finger.