2 hours ago, 5-oh said:

The question is 9th Region Coach of the Year, not Player of the Year.  I'd imagine if you take away Meyer from HC and Sorrell, like was almost the case when he went to play Prep in Atlanta, it would be a different story for HC and Sorrell.  It's much less difficult to coach a team when you have a D-1 player of Meyer's level on your squad.  I'm not as sold on the fact that their success has as much to do with Sorrell's coaching as it does with one player's individual success.  I would've like to have seen Sorrell coach this season without Meyer on the squad to see how he would have done.  

Otte has brought this team along through the years, as his Senior's have been together since elementary / middle school.  He shouldn't be faulted because Conner is Senior laden with talent across the board.  I think that's a testament to his coaching, it just all comes to a head this year in their Senior season.  Hamilton's early season injury and missing some games has a lot to do with their lackluster performance in a couple of those games.  I think if you remove any one of Conner's big 3 or 4 Seniors from their lineup, they don't fall off nearly as much  as HC would if you removed Meyer from HC.  I just think it's different when coaching with 1 uber talented player on your squad as opposed to having 4 solid players, as a head coach.

Now that Conner is at full strength, I think Otte has been proven to be the Coach of the Year in the 9th Region to this point.  Meyer makes a VERY strong argument for POY in the 9th though.  

You bring up some valid points with it being easier to be successful with a super star.  Sorrell is also doing it with two starters that did not even play basketball last year and a 6-7th man that transferred in  Dreas hasn’t played since he was an 8th grader.  While his senior role players last year weren’t allstars they were still two starters and the first three subs, so he had a great core to build around but had to fill in the pieces and teach three new kids his system.  You can’t really punish a coach because he has a superstar.  Last year he picked up the pieces of a program that had run off several kids leaving no depth and those kids came back to play for him.  That says something and should be enough to put him in the conversation.  

Good discussion. This is a close race and too many games left for me to make a pick at this time.

2 hours ago, Voice of Reason said:

Good discussion. This is a close race and too many games left for me to make a pick at this time.

The question was, up to this point.

1 hour ago, 4 Quarters said:

The question was, up to this point.

1. Otte

2. Sorrell

3. Snapp

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