Ah, yes. Today's scrimmage against Westfield State College. Totally more worthwhile than an average practice.
Not. Most of the team who was actually able to go (11 or 12 players) left by 2:30. I however, have a class that ends at 3:20 on Wednesdays, and today we had a guest lecturer that I couldn't miss. I took Babbitts car and got out of here at 3:30 with Josh and Tim. With traffic, we didn't get to Westfield State until just after 4:30, and the scrimmage lasted until about 5 when it was too dark to see. Fantastic. Westfield State is also not the strongest opponent that we could have found. Scrimmaging them was pretty similar to scrimmaging the B team, but with more driving. I think that I can safely say that we didn't improve one lick by playing Westfield State. It was just one more day of non-ultimate in our pathetically short season. I feel extremely embittered that we don't even get to play this weekend.
Fuck Henry.
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Hey Dave,
This comment doesn't really have anything to do with your Westfield Scrimmage, but I was wondering something. At Pat Bell, what impact do you think Henry's presence would have had? Also, I know he and Robin weren't there, but were there any other A-teamers who missed Pat Bell this year?
--Noam
Good question.
We were missing a lot of players at Pat Bell for a variety of reasons. We have twenty-seven men on the A-team right now, and only eleven played on Sunday (I believe). Henry and Robin would certainly have helped us somewhat, since they are fast, experienced players who would have helped us to control the disc. However, we were missing a lot of our other experienced players to injury, and the return of any of them would Also have been helpful.
One of our biggest problems at Pat Bell was our lack of depth. Our experienced players often managed to work the disc the length of the field, only to have one of our young players have a costly drop or throwaway. I don't mean to make it sound like I'm coming down on the new guys, though. It's hard to figure out how to play, and the college game is fast and unforgiving. I honestly think that all of our freshmen would have had a better weekend if there had been more experienced players to take some of the pressure off of them. I think that, for most freshmen, it is too much pressure for us to expect them to simply step into a primary role on the team.
Anyway, thanks for your questions. I really appreciate your interest in my little ramblings.
-David Barker.
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