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I'm asking this question out of genuine curiosity: is there a reason why Landen Bartleson doesn't play 90% of the snaps on offense? I watched my first Boyle game of the year last night on Prepspin, and he's a game-changer. He had a long run, they went right back to him after that run, but then I didn't hear a lot about him after. I would also think you would want him and Reese Smith returning kickoffs. Is he too young to carry the load? Not fully able to learn the offense? Something else?

I'm interested to see how Coach Cook affects GRC. Obviously a very good coach, and I think that he will have them in a position to be as successful as they can be.

Only problem I would have had with the rankings is if Trevon wasn't at the top of the player rankings.

It's his second year at Mercer. Was an assistant for boy's basketball and baseball last year. Think he came from the Bowling Green area.

At some point Shope was "someone with no experience and someone that nobody has ever heard of" and look where that took him. Interesting to judge someone's coaching ability before you even give him an opportunity. I don't know how good of a coach he is, but I'm not going to assume he's terrible. Good luck Coach Shartzer.

Hope this isn't true. Mercer will be looking for a new coach in two years (after Treyvon leaves). Maze would have shown that he's always looking for the next best coaching job, and Turley, while a good coach, has hopped from job to job. 11 stops in 34 years.

My thoughts exactly. 10 minutes as opposed to an hour and 10 minutes is a big difference.

Although I don't like the number of transfers I'm seeing around the state, I would not want to keep a 15-18 year old kid from playing a sport because of it.

Too much talent and well coached... Mercer gets it done.

I completely agree with that. To me, if they take care of the ball, they will probably play a good game. They generally shoot the ball well enough. The issue generally comes with getting up a comparable amount of field goals as the opponent. I believe the loss to Pulaski is the only game they won the turnover battle and didn't win. While it's important to all teams, turnovers is such a critical stat for this team

I'm assuming nothing. Boyle's bad games have been struggling to score and turning the ball over a lot. That's a losing recipe. They don't cause enough turnovers to offset their own turnovers. I've seen the point made about tempo playing a big factor in who wins this game. I happen to agree. If Boyle is missing shots and turning the ball over 18+ times, that lends itself to an uptempo game and easy baskets for Casey. I'm willing to say, regardless of how Casey plays, if Boyle plays poorly they will more than likely lose. If Boyle takes care of the ball and takes smart shots, I think they will win.

If they don't put back to back good games together, they won't survive and advance. Their margin for error is too small to not play well at this time of the year.

After last week, I'm not going to pick against Casey. It's been a while since Boyle has put back to back good games together.

Don't see Mercer having two bad games in a row. Mercer by 9.

Congrats Bounce. Impressive showing. You tried to tell me.