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**Oakland fan warning**

This may be the most surprising conversation I've read on this board. I think you all bring up some legitimate points about the athletic investing  that would  need to increase, but isn't that exactly what the MVC would provide for you? As far as the schools that would be interested in making a jump your "problems" seem far more easily fixed than the others. Not even sure who the others are. One of the Dakota schools, perhaps?

And as an aside, Oakland built a brand new Track and tennis complex. Though I'm not sure why we don't have a men's tennis team.
https://oakland.edu/recwell/recreation-facilities/outdoor-complex/

Since its been brought up a couple times in this thread: At this point, all D1 schools are using Synergy. Its a great tool. Perhaps some don't use the full breakdown in house, but I've been on there and you have access to the full breakdown of every D1 game, regardless of the teams...which suggests everyone is using the full Monty. I've played around with it a bit and you can literally find whatever you want. I could look up specifically possessions where Alec took a late-clock three off of a sideline inbounds.

I wasn't clear myself. Was trying to say that Oakland uses Synergy, while a select number of college teams are using sportsVU which the all NBA teams use now. Wisconsin's main blog wrote an awesome piece about the technology last year.

I would hope everyone's using Synergy now. It's expensive sure, but I would imagine in the thousands compared to the apparent million + sportsVU costs.

http://www.buckys5thquarter.com/2015/4/15/8419969/sportvu-college-basketball-nba-stats-llc

It'll be interesting how defensive stats develop over the years. Problem in college is many of the non P5 teams don't have the technology to track player movement for 100% of the game. I'm fairly sure Oakland has Synergy sports which can break down things like PPP on ball screen. PPP based on certain lineups. etc.

Anyway's here is Kampe's Ballot/ explanation.

http://www.wdfn.com/media/play/26779948/

1st team
Vashil Fernandes
Alec Peters
Tevonn Walker
Jordan Fouse
Matt Tiby


2nd team
JT Yoho
Carrington Love
Keith Carter
Chris Jenkins
Cameron Morse

All Defensive Team
Fernandez
Tai Odiase
Keith Carter
Jordan Fouse
Matt Tiby

Vashil Fernandez POY - said he's the gamechanger in the league. Reason is he affects every single possession.

Hammick- 6th man. But it might of been Darien Walker.  Doesn't remember.

I'll just go with what Kenpom has to say. But maybe you know better. And remember I agree 100% that Valpo got snubbed on a number of occasions with these awards. You can make strong arguments for Fernandez, Carter, and Hammick to all be on 1st/2nd team. My only point in all of this was individual defensive statistics kind of suck. Are they right some of the time? yeah. But it's not the end all of assessing a players defense.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CollegeBasketball/comments/21fkg3/i_am_ken_pomeroy_proprietor_of_kenpomcom_and/cgcj857

So today I learned: all these other teams have better individual players, but Bryce Drew winning with all these inferior players wasn't impressive. Also, from Twitter: defensive rating is a joke, isn't really indicative of good defensive play, and Vashil shouldn't have won DPOY in either year. Maddening.

Well I'm like 10% of this so probably better to address here than twitter. Anyone who thought Dante Williams should have got DPOY over Vashil is crazy. Anyone who thought Odiase should have won this year is even crazier.

I already mentioned this, but my all defensive team would have been whatever 4 Valpo players Bryce wants and Jordan Fouse. I also would have replaced Keith Carter with Dixson on the 2nd team.I had a rather long rant on why Dixson was so ridiculous on the OU board. Anyways, If going a legit 9 deep is the price to pay for foregoing individual awards I think all of the Valpo fans on this board would take that trade-off.

And the 140 character limit has me confused with what you're talking about. Kenpom's adj D is a completely useful statistic. And I certainly have no problems with that.  But it's not an individual statistic. I thought you were talking about individual dRtg which is a obscure stat at the college level. Pretty sure it was a misunderstanding on my part.

Individual defensive rating, I'm not even sure how that's being tracked at the college level. In the NBA it's done by assigning usage to each defensive possession. In other words they're able to calculate the points per possession each individual defender gives up when he's defending a shot. They use synergy sports for that. Very few CBB even have that software.

My issue with a number of individual defensive ratings is there are so many different ways a player can impact the game. Take our last game together where Tevonn Walker shut down Max Hooper to the point he only took 4 shots. When you look at the box score that won't show up like Fernandez's blocks will.

That was what my example of the corner who gets 10 picks vs cb who doesn't get thrown at.

Someone should ask Kampe for his ballot, perhaps with explanation. He seems like a talkative, thoughtful guy who does sometimes answer fan email.

send a tweet with the hashtag #askkampe and he'll answer it on his radio show Wed at 7 . You could email him too. Don't know if he'll answer it this week, but he's very good at getting back to everyone.

Not an awful person at all.  sizing up a ref doesn't make someone an awful person. If that was the case, I might be a bad person....So you are telling me Kampe didn't take steps towards the ref as if he was going to meet him in the middle of the court?   After the technical, Kampe took 3 steps towards the ref.  You might be mistaken.  That is a fact.  Bad thing is, Kampe was correct.  It was a foul. I don't love Kampe as much as STLfan (just giving you a hard time) but I do like him.  I listen to Kampe's radio show and think hes a good  coach.

This is obviously going nowhere. If you think that sequence was worthy of an ejection so be it. Kampe was like half a step out of the coaching box and at no point was he even with 30 feet of the ref who gave the tech. Arguably a deserved tech, but saying that was "sizing up the ref" is a large stretch IMO.

Wouldn't be a Valpo-Oakland game without a little bit of controversy.

edit: I'm not allowed to post links on your board. You can see the link of the video on our board under the Misc. Media Coverage 2015-16 thread.

I'm fairly sure the above video is where it happened. Konya is the one in the leather jacket directly behind Kampe. Definitely yelling,  but as long as it's not anything derogatory I absolutely love having an AD that cares. And you'll be happy to know our schedule will be much toned down next year. Believe only 3 P5 teams, 1 of which is at home (Georgia). Our home attendance is going to be 4400 (20000+ from the MSU game helps). Our student section has returned and been awesome the whole year. And our highlights are on  TV just about every night.

And as far as Kampe sizing up the ref? seems like you might be mistaken Oklahomamick... but by all means keep trying to paint Kampe as an awful person.

So about this writer... Pat Caputo is easily #1 on Oakland's most hated media members list. The guy pays no attention to how Oakland is playing all year and will try to jump on the coattails of anything that sounds like a good story. Doesn't matter if it's true. I can't post links on your guys board, but needless to say you won't hear any OU fans deny he's a hack.