You were comparing Barnes and Trakh, now you've switched it to Barnes and CTT. What are you aiming at?
Trakh's x's and o's don't jump out at me. He seems to be failing miserably in the motivation department w/ his team's recent performance.
You know that before Sunday, Barnes had won 4 out of 5 games she coached against CTT, right?
And CTT just managed to lose to teams coached by Jody Wynn and Charmin Smith in the last several weeks. That is EXTREMELY dubious. Washington and Cal won a combined 4 conference games and 2 of them were against ASU.
"Track is a solid coach he may even be a better coach than Barnes who was thoroughly out coached by CTT in the kitties lost to the Devils.
I will acknowledge that both Track and Barnes are amazing recruiters. Having just finished the book Indmissible about the varsity blues scandal I would guess that perhaps the Trojans in the past have been flexible in admissions as it appears the kitties are as well."
My original post made the point clearly that CTT outcoached Barnes in the last game played.
To extend the thesis of that original post CTT has a demonstrated track record, 500 victories, consistently beats higher rated teams with more talent. Witness the meeting two nights ago against the kitties.
In that game Barnes did not have her team prepared and as I pointed out had an inability to in game adjust to the 131 zone CT through at her.
In that post I went on to praise Barnes as a tremendous recruiter. I compared her recruiting ability to Tracks with his 447 career wins. Barnes with 177 wins is making a nice start. If she can avoid blunders that would blemish her record like the game two nights against Sun Devils when CTT revealed her shortcomings as a coach she will certainly have a nice career.
You accurately point out that this has been a transition season for the Sun Devils. Having graduated five seniors three of whom are playing professionally the Devils had no returning starters and Taya Hanson was the only returner with any significant experience.
Against the kitties the Devils started three freshmen a red shirt sophomore and Hansen. The announcers in that game pointed out ASU had lost 68% of their offense to graduation.
So this season has been up and down for the Sun Devils as one would expect from a team that starts three freshmen and has seven freshmen on their roster. After six consecutive 20+ seasons CTT has acknowledged that this is a season of teaching and bringing these freshmen into the Sun Devil culture.
There have been extraordinarily painful losses this year. I don't regard them as unexpected and I don't attribute them to coaching. I wonder how kittie fans are analyzing the rivalry game loss to the Sun Devils?
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