Coach Flip Naumburg's Journal

Monday, March 28, 2005

SONOMA STATE IS COMING TO TOWN

We have our Lone, big, 2005 intersectional Home game tomorrow afternoon when we play the Sonoma State Sea wolves on the campus of Colorado State University.  Sonoma comes here with everything to gain.  They are recently up to a #3 national ranking and they are unbeaten.  We are that other, higher "odd" numeral ranking, also freshly anointed as such, so if you put two and two together you can definitely come up with a good number for Noma by sundown tomorrow.  These are the challenges of life, are they not? 

THE ART OF WAR

In spite of numerous things having been changed on our team recently and again, and again due to one or another reason, I still somehow expect us to go out tomorrow and play the cliché', which is to say I intend for us to impose OUR game, whatever that is, on them, and not the other way around.  Perhaps I want us to do it with a little more subtlety than we have at some other times in the past, and certainly I want to add a little more of the patience ingredient to our mix right now, but nonetheless I intend for us to take charge and play just as hard as we do most every day in practice.

I don't really have a clue as to what the SSU game plan for 2005 looks like or who they are.  I do know they have undergone changes like we have from last year to this one.

I have "warned" my team that he (opposing coach Doug Carl) has viewed our tape of CSU at BYU that we played the other night, and that he likely has done it many, many times, and so that we should probably not do whatever we did against the Cougars lest we get caught in a web of tactical deceit and confusion. 

TAPE IS OFTEN ALL RED TO ME

Actually I'm the only one who gets confused when I look at tape for scouting purposes, and that's why I so often don't.  Ignorance has often been a blissful pre-game scouting state for me. I love to look at tapes of games that other teams play against one another. I don't like to revisit our games that much unless I am looking for specific things to show them (players). I tend to still get too mad at our mistakes, and that is a waste of time if I am watching a game on tape that was played and over last week or last year.

By the way, I confirmed the fact that Coach Carl watched the tape many times for myself when I squeezed this information from Doug's cell phone (by talking to him) today.  They have been here in Colorado for a few days.

CATCH 22

So the catch  (22) is that I haven't seen it (BYU/CSU tape) as it is, so how could I possibly know what happened against BYU last week anyway? I cooked baby back ribs while 20 or so players viewed it when they came up to the house for Easter "Brunch" Sunday Afternoon. I'll bet I will not watch it between now and the game either. 

Whatever we did then I plan on doing most all of it tomorrow anyhow, if for no other reason than I have no choice, but I do plan on us doing it better, whatever it was, if that helps explain anything.  We didn't play so great against BYU. We were just gutsy in that game.  I think I'm happy if someone wants to prepare for us by watching that.

Here's MY ultimate CATCH 22: "Catch the Ball 22 straight times in the game!"  My guess is that from that ability (to catch 22 times or so in a row) will come bigger, better, more comfortable solutions for multiple in-the-game situations and the real opponents that would keep us from our single minded goal.

THE KING IS DEAD – LONG LIVE THE KING

As stated, just last week they (SSU) became the #1 contender, and tomorrow they already get a shot, as do we, to test, or to measure the space if there is any, between the two teams. Both are "traditional powers".  It should be fun and interesting, this is a clash that, timing wise, comes together in a very pertinent sort of way for the MDIA.

I like the civilized yet deep rivalry between the two schools that will do battle, and I (almost) always enjoy seeing Doug and the Sons of Sonoma. 

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