Agreed. The question is not "Is he too young" but "Is he good at quizbowl." As 6 of this year's top 25 players were sophomores, it seems that ability and age are not necessarily associated.charlieDfromNKC wrote:Age has nothing to do with ability. While this Arjun may or may not be good enough to be a great varsity player as a sophomore, I know I was good enough my sophomore year to beat most Missouri teams and to play close with some others. Also, Keith from RM definitely qualifies as a dominating sophomore last year, no?BGSO wrote:Their hotshot freshmen Arjun who is still IMO too young to be as dominant at varsity as he is at JV.
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Before we all jump on BGSO, he makes a good point. I played against Arjun at least twice this year in the afternoon rounds, and there were times where he looked unbeatable, and times when he hardly touched the buzzer. Some of this inconsistency can be blamed on his freshman/sophomore lack of experience that BGSO is talking about. That said, he is a major bright spot for the future of Fremd scobowl.
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I agree 100% although he will most probably dominate on the JV circuit I don't think he is ready to make the jump to Varsity and keep that same level of domination.JohnGlerum wrote:Before we all jump on BGSO, he makes a good point. I played against Arjun at least twice this year in the afternoon rounds, and there were times where he looked unbeatable, and times when he hardly touched the buzzer. Some of this inconsistency can be blamed on his freshman/sophomore lack of experience that BGSO is talking about. That said, he is a major bright spot for the future of Fremd scobowl.
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But age has a LOT to do with experience, and experience has a LOT to do with ability. Age directly, no. There are certainly some fantastic underclassmen. But since even they get better with age, the best players tend to be older ones. There are of course exceptions, Sir Dees.charlieDfromNKC wrote:Age has nothing to do with ability.
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Who is planning on sending frosh/soph teams to the Fremd Tournament on October 27th?
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I intend to bring a team of Barrington kids to Fremd, which represents BHS's first foray into the non-conference tournament arena at either level. K. Palmer told me he'd send the invite to the attention of our varsity coach. Any idea when I should start asking him if he received it? The reason I ask is because I'd hate to assemble my team and have them practice for a tournament that they wind up never attending because I wasn't vigilant...
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Latin will probably attend the Fremd F/S tournament with one team. I haven't received anything yet, and I wouldn't expect to for a couple more weeks.
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Even though the power is back on, we will not have practce this afternoon since we don't have school. The powers that be would clobber me if I dared host such a thing. We will have practice Thursday (study from 3:15-4 [be on time!!!], then regular practice till 5). We now return you to our regularly scheduled program...maybe we should work out a phne tree to allow for future emergencies??
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Even though the power is back on, we will not have practce this afternoon since we don't have school. The powers that be would clobber me if I dared host such a thing. We will have practice Thursday (study from 3:15-4 [be on time!!!], then regular practice till 5). We now return you to our regularly scheduled program...maybe we should work out a phne tree to allow for future emergencies??
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I second... for the obvious reason of the this factorJohnGlerum wrote:Interested to see how IMSA holds up this year myself.
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League Recruitment
If any one is looking or knows a team in the Chicago Area (particularly North and Northwest areas) that is looking to join a league, the Metro North League is looking for new teams. Currently, we have 9 teams (Roycemore, Notre Dame, Carmel, St. Viator, St. Pat's, Driscoll, Latin, St. Ignatius, and Whitney Young) and each team plays each other twice over the course of 4 meets. Please contact Matt Bardoe at the Latin School of Chicago, [email protected] for more information.
Re: League Recruitment
A year ago ..... I might have had a taker on that ....Matt Bardoe wrote:If any one is looking or knows a team in the Chicago Area (particularly North and Northwest areas) that is looking to join a league, the Metro North League is looking for new teams. Currently, we have 9 teams (Roycemore, Notre Dame, Carmel, St. Viator, St. Pat's, Driscoll, Latin, St. Ignatius, and Whitney Young) and each team plays each other twice over the course of 4 meets. Please contact Matt Bardoe at the Latin School of Chicago, [email protected] for more information.
I don't know any other good Catholic/private/independent schools in that neck of the woods.
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Not gonna happen.Tegan wrote:I don't know any other good Catholic/private/independent schools in that neck of the woods.
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Seriously .... a year or two or three ago, when I was coaching, I might have entertained a conference schedule like the one NMSBL runs. The fact is, I think all of hte public schools are in conferences or leagues.Matt Bardoe wrote:We would be glad to have public schools as well. So don't limit your thoughts in anyway. We would also welcome any schools that might want to just get started with a team.
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The only thing I can think of: about a year ago, the old Suburban Prairie Conference broke up .... I'm not a million percent sure that they all got into leagues again .... you might start there ....
The Suburban Prairie was ginormous ..... it stretched out to Kaneland in Kane County all the way down to Evergreen Park and south of there. I know Evergreen Park joined SICA which is now the South Suburban Conference.
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A revised schedule of tournaments for the year is available at http://www.ihssbca.org.
A few new tournaments have been added, particularly in the central part of the state. If you know of any others, please email me at [email protected].
A few new tournaments have been added, particularly in the central part of the state. If you know of any others, please email me at [email protected].
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