Comments on: SWAC Basketball: Tetnus Shots Required

By: QSHAKE

QSHAKE — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 04:12:54 +0000

After many years of following the SWAC, it comes down to poor coaching and players not getting better during there stays. It seems the players never improve from year to year. The players tend to look physically outmatched and weak. These teams need to do the following:

1) Soften the schedule, losing will take the heart out of you and if you are chronically outmatched, you lose, no fans show, the players begin to not care, etc. – play more games to your level and schedule teams you can beat, got to be somebody besides each other, who wants to play for a loser
2) Find new coaches, get coaches who teach basketball fundamentals to make you a better player & have some idea of what it takes to compete at a higher level. Quit recycling a HBCU guys and get the best coaches available. Morgan State has turned it’s program around with Todd Bozeman, Jackson State has bounced back to be near the top of conference
3) Establish a sound conditioning & weightlifting program
4) The players need to practice their games with a purpose – to get better, care
5) a lot of undersized point guards go unrecruited, so you may have to go small at the small position, as noted earlier in the blog – assist to turnover ratio – fewer turnovers, more shot opportunities leading to more points and less fast break opportunities
6) Players need to be retained, some of schools have low graduation rates therefore a larger turnover of players, less stability & growth

1993 was the year – Southern over Georgia Tech in the NCAA & Jackson State over UConn in theNIT

By: aly2426

aly2426 — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:42:27 +0000

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By: Youmty

Youmty — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:14:08 +0000

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By: aly2426

aly2426 — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 04:41:32 +0000

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By: chilltown

chilltown — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 02:57:05 +0000

Kyle: The sad thing is that Texas Southern will probably finish in the top half of this league.

HBCU: Interesting. A lot of these schools play ridiculous non-conference schedules to pick up checks; do they reinvest that money into the basketball program?

By: HBCUSportsBlog.com

HBCUSportsBlog.com — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:50:20 +0000

1. A big part of that is the limited resources available in facilities, recruiting, and the number of big programs that are across the south.

2. Not excusing the lack of talent, coaching or product the SWAC puts on the floor, but they do have several players and teams ranked in significant statistical categories.

http://hbcusportsblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/black-colleges-statistically-strong-in.html

By: Kyle S

Kyle S — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:49:11 +0000

I saw Texas Southern play this year at the Vegas Classic (I was there to see Bama play, and the tickets were for an all day session so I took advantage of it) and they are horrendous. I mean, there is no way that team should be playing in Division 1 – they had a player who was listed at 5′4, but I’ll be damned if he cracked the 5 foot margin. I played teams in high school that may not beat TSU in a best of 7 series, but would definately push it to at least 6. They were the worst D1 team I’ve ever seen, and by the sounds of it they may be only the 5th worst team in the SWAC.