Averaging 90 points a game......

 

Grinnell?s Jack Taylor scores 109 points on helpless opponent | For The Win

It's a scam. Don't buy it.

Is the competition level at D3 really that bad?

Is the competition level at D3 really that bad?

 

Some of the teams are really bad but this team and coach are a joke and a embarrassment to college athletics.

It's a scam. Don't buy it.

 

What do you mean that you don't buy it? Are you saying he didn't really score 138?

 

Some of the teams are really bad but this team and coach are a joke and a embarrassment to college athletics.

 

An embarrassment to college athletics? Seems a little harsh to me.

Shot 50% from the Field and from the 3pt line...it's not like he's going 35 of 90...Wondering how bad they lose when they get beat.

What do you mean that you don't buy it? Are you saying he didn't really score 138?

 

 

 

An embarrassment to college athletics? Seems a little harsh to me.

 

No it isn't a little harsh. Here is an excerpt from Deadspin.com's article about this situation:

 

Taylor is averaging 90 ppg through the Pioneers' first two games, having attempted 122 shots and 77 three-pointers. It has very little to do with Taylor, and everything to do with Grinnell coach David Arseneault and his "System." The System is designed to inflate a single player's statistics. A two-man full court press, with the chosen player not moving back on defense, gives opponents a 5-on-3 and encourages them to take quick shots. (This results in a lot of wide-open layups. In Taylor's 109 point game, opponent Crossroads kept feeding Andy Carson, who scored 50 points on 25-of-27 from the field.)

 

Long outlet passes are then sent to the chosen player, who shoots open threes to his heart's content. Teammates are instructed to pass to him even if means turning down open shots of their own. Once opponents are in the double-bonus, Grinnell players foul immediately to get the ball back quickly.

 

This year and last, the focal point is Taylor. But it can be anyone—Arseneault-coached players have set the D-III scoring record three times. Arseneault has made a cottage industry of the System, with his second book being released this past summer.

One way of thinking about it is that you're trading 2's for 3's. Another way is call it what it is...cherry-picking. To say that they're actually playing defense might be a stretch of the term. The other guys are there basically to get the ball inbounded and up the court to the shooter.

If we're calling it what it really is...the coach is trying to sell books and the publicity is a good way to help that venture.

I wouldn't have a problem with it if they didn't schedule down so badly. Play a top tier team in your league/division/classification and try that ish. It'd be different if they were winning games, but they are basically playing church league teams and getting killed when they play a team that has the same resources as they do.

I wouldn't have a problem with it if they didn't schedule down so badly. Play a top tier team in your league/division/classification and try that ish. It'd be different if they were winning games, but they are basically playing church league teams and getting killed when they play a team that has the same resources as they do.

 

And that doesn't usually make the news.

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@GreggDoyelCBS You're writing on Grinnell? Is your next column on the Harlem Globetrotters?

 

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@RobDauster I have respect for the Globetrotters.

@RobDauster 24m

@GreggDoyelCBS You're writing on Grinnell? Is your next column on the Harlem Globetrotters?

 

‏@GreggDoyelCBS 14m

@RobDauster I have respect for the Globetrotters.

:lol2: Good Stuff!

Ouch

 

@GreggDoyelCBS: Grinnell's coach is trying to sell books, so he wants attention. I gave him some. Careful what you seek - Not easy for Grinnell gunner to score 100-plus, till coach makes it so - CBSSports.com

Some of the teams are really bad but this team and coach are a joke and a embarrassment to college athletics.

 

I make it a point to rarely agree with Wireman, simply out of principle, but he is spot on here. It is an embarrassment and the way they are concocting these games to make these things happen is worse. You schedule a Christian College with 100 students, pay them a grand or so, bring them in, and then have Taylor play all-time offense is a joke. This is a side-show, a circus act, and a flat-out travesty.