Central girls, snubbed by seeding, strike back at Eastview

A Burnsville man convicted of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl who later died of a drug overdose has won the right to be resentenced.

[Paul]

Hey Willie, how can you be miffed at the seeding??? Your team had 4 losses, and 3 of them were by healthy margins. it really doesnt make that much difference anyways between a 2 or 3 seed because if you take care of business as a 3 seed you will get your chance to beat the 2 seed in the semis as you did. Quit your crying and worry about coaching your team. And if your team needs something like that to get them motivated, you aren't doing your job as a coach. Welcome back to reality next year Willie!!

[HoopsRube]

Eastview had a better record against better competition, period. Their power ranking was far superior to Central's (20 pts better in the QRF). And as mentioned a 2 vs 3 seed is meaningless anyway. This is pathetic reporting. Clearly trying to make a story out of nothing and didn't do their homework which would have taken all of 5 minutes in this case. I guess that's too much to ask. Most coaches would say you have to go thru everybody eventually anyway, but here we've got public complaints which is pretty low, yet the trib fell for it.

[Haha]

quit being haters. Central was seeded third and blew out the second seeded team. Hindsight can be pretty 20-20 in this case: Central is the much better team. By the way, two of their four losses were to South (as mentioned in the article), another was to a nationally ranked basketball powerhouse school out of California... what were you saying about an easy schedule?... South is next to fall!

[Paul]

Haha, I was not saying that Central isn't good enough to beat or be a 2 seed. read what I said. They have to seed them based on the facts that happened. Central got beat 4 times, 3 by sizeable margins. Their conference schedule is pathetic. So out of the 6 or 7 quality teams they faced, they lost 4 times. That plays out to the number 3 seed in this situation. It isn't rocket science, and it isn't sour grapes. The sad part is the the coach thinks he has to use that as motivation???? Just keep quiet, coach your team with some class, and the best team will win. Central did end up winning because they played better than South on that night. Hopefully the players were motivated by the fact they were playing for a State Championship, and not by a whining coach crying that he got the 3 seed instead of the 2.

[Its Over]

You must not be an athlete. You're saying the coach shouldn't have used competitive drive to motivate his players to greatness?... hmmm, good strategy

[Paul]

Competitive Drive and the seeding process???? use play on the court to motivate your players not things that the players are not in control of. The fact of the matter is that the way the process works the seeding was correct. Thats why they play the games though is to decide the "competitive drive" of each individual athlete or team on the court. bulletin board material is for a coach that is grasping for ways to motivate hi/her team. If that is what a coach needs to do its too bad. And by the way "its over", i was an athlete, and I am willing to bet my paycheck that I played at a much higher level than you ever did/are/will. ;)

[Its Over]

I'd gladly take that bet - and your paycheck - anyday. Chances are I've competed, coached and judged higher sporting events than you've bought tickets for. Of course, neither of us can prove it because this is a completely anonymous forum. The greater point still remains: you use the things you can't control to feed the motivation to excel in all the things you can control. That's the "Art" part of coaching- not just teaching mechanics, but knowing how to push your athletes to greater heights than even they know exist for them. I think it was a pretty good strategy of him to use the underrated/underdog status to excel. I wonder if it worked?... How'd the team you coach do at State?