[FarmTeam]

When you question the basketball IQ of a WBB coaching GOAT, who had recently led her team to a National Championship, and claim her to be inferior to another WBB coach who is fairly unpopular on this board, you should expect strong pushback.  If you are too thin skinned to read that pushback, you shouldn't make such posts, even if they are not technical violations of the rules.

Did BC actually post "You are a troll?"  I find that uncharacteristic of BC.

I did, indeed.  You can read the post I was reacting to here: https://thecardboard.org/board/thread-23...#pid349837

And I stand by my assessment that the poster was trying to draw a reaction rather than come to foster discussion about the merits or not about the coach at the time.  To be fair to FarmTeam, I misread their registration date and looked only at the number of threads they started so I was wrong (and admitted it at the time) in saying the poster had only registered to rage bait.

Throughout the years, there have been legitimate criticisms about Vanderveer’s coaching, the most salient of which was whether her structured style of play turned off athletic creative guards (especially the last few years), but for the most part, her overall record has held up quite well.

BC

Umm, no. I've posted a ton on this board. And have said, as I did in that thread, that I'm a Stanford alum, a WBB fan (though admittedly much more focused on MBB than WBB), and have always thought that Tara didn't walk on water as a coach. Never particularly enjoyed watching their style of play, though of course I enjoyed the win-loss record. The natty win over Arizona was almost embarrassing in that regard: they eked out a win to a team that they had destroyed twice during the season because Tara simply Tara'd it, i.e., got outcoached. Thank god she was a great recruiter. For the record, I tend to be hard on coaches because as a former Stanford athlete I had a bad one, and think it's a crime, or at least a shame, when athletes' hard work is undermined by coaching. If anything, I was reacting to the ridiculous notion that Tara was beyond reproach as a coach (read the thread). She wasn't and isn't.

And you overreacted. Yet you police the board on stuff like that all the time. I don't remember any apology either.

By the way, reading it now I'll stand by this statement: "I was saying all week that I thought we'd lose to UConn because the gap between Geno and Tara is so big." 

But it's not worth re-litigating now. :-)

[FarmTeam]

When you question the basketball IQ of a WBB coaching GOAT, who had recently led her team to a National Championship, and claim her to be inferior to another WBB coach who is fairly unpopular on this board, you should expect strong pushback.  If you are too thin skinned to read that pushback, you shouldn't make such posts, even if they are not technical violations of the rules.

Did BC actually post "You are a troll?"  I find that uncharacteristic of BC.

I did, indeed.  You can read the post I was reacting to here: https://thecardboard.org/board/thread-23...#pid349837

And I stand by my assessment that the poster was trying to draw a reaction rather than come to foster discussion about the merits or not about the coach at the time.  To be fair to FarmTeam, I misread their registration date and looked only at the number of threads they started so I was wrong (and admitted it at the time) in saying the poster had only registered to rage bait.

Throughout the years, there have been legitimate criticisms about Vanderveer’s coaching, the most salient of which was whether her structured style of play turned off athletic creative guards (especially the last few years), but for the most part, her overall record has held up quite well.

BC

Umm, no. I've posted a ton on this board. And have said, as I did in that thread, that I'm a Stanford alum, a WBB fan (though admittedly much more focused on MBB than WBB), and have always thought that Tara didn't walk on water as a coach. Never particularly enjoyed watching their style of play, though of course I enjoyed the win-loss record. The natty win over Arizona was almost embarrassing in that regard: they eked out a win to a team that they had destroyed twice during the season because Tara simply Tara'd it, i.e., got outcoached. Thank god she was a great recruiter. For the record, I tend to be hard on coaches because as a former Stanford athlete I had a bad one, and think it's a crime, or at least a shame, when athletes' hard work is undermined by coaching. If anything, I was reacting to the ridiculous notion that Tara was beyond reproach as a coach (read the thread). She wasn't and isn't.

And you overreacted. Yet you police the board on stuff like that all the time. I don't remember any apology either.

By the way, reading it now I'll stand by this statement: "I was saying all week that I thought we'd lose to UConn because the gap between Geno and Tara is so big." 

But it's not worth re-litigating now. :-)