Coaches are vital for building a team (recruiting, lineups), and strategy and plays are obviously important, but I think fans get carried away with game-to-game "outcoaching" stuff. Akron was a match-up problem for us last year. They had two great bigs in Marshall and Treadwell, and our success hinged on hitting outside shots. As to Christian besting Senderoff, I think our team is better, and even at that, both our wins last year came down to the last shot of the game, so it's not like dominance was established.
Whatever JC does to prep his teams for conference games, I'm glad he's doing it. He'll never say, "that's life on the road in the MAC." He seems to have the players recognizing that every game matters, and that's how we got a share of last year's title, even though he was "outcoached" three times against Akron.
