To get back to the topic, using time outs appropriately is necessary as a couch. A simple thing, perhaps, but it's not every coach who understands when to use them (clearly). Maybe Tad just doesn't believe in anything beyond the physical? That energy in the gym, mentality of the players, the collective swing of a team's chemistry, has anything to do with the scoreboard. Maybe he's a total numbers guy like most on this board, and even his plea to the students to show up is more about...I don't know, finances (*bewildered if it's not about the energy of gameday)? And if so, if Tad is a hardcore materialist, if his stockbroking background is still more in the foreground (*what a great post), we should not be ragging him for his inability to utilize, or just plain disregard, his time outs. This board is all about quantifiable results! We should be applauding his ability to assemble a physically superior team, a team that runs on its own, without a gametime pulse, a robotic team of sprockets and gears, a team that does the same thing no matter being up twenty or down twenty, that can mechanically break down a zone defense by throwing passes chest high through the most precise passing lanes.
But, oh melancholy dane, if you have a heart, if you have a shred of intuition to go with your crowning intellect, or even if you have nothing more than a whisping ghost in the metal-forged machine, but still a ghost mind you, still a mind, and not merely a passive "they'll probably figure it out because I can't" attitude, then for the love of all things divine, YOU USE YOUR DAMN TIMEOUTS!!!!
