Slow Learners are not the worst

[WoadBlue]

Regressive Learners are much worse.

A Slow Learner in a school setting takes a long time to, say, learn and be able to use the multiplication chart. The Regressive Learner might also learn that chart by May, but he totally forgets it over the summer and is as bad off come September as he was the previous September.


I think ole Roy might have signed more than a couple of Regressive Learners. This team is having to relearn what it seems to have learned during the opening two-thirds of lats season.

 

[alabamaheel]

Regressive Learners are much worse.

A Slow Learner in a school setting takes a long time to, say, learn and be able to use the multiplication chart. The Regressive Learner might also learn that chart by May, but he totally forgets it over the summer and is as bad off come September as he was the previous September.


I think ole Roy might have signed more than a couple of Regressive Learners. This team is having to relearn what it seems to have learned during the opening two-thirds of lats season.

Unfortunately this is a thought that I’ve had recently. Too many guys back to be this far behind. Should be plugging a few guys in and making slight adjustments here and there. I know some believe we’ve been scouted, therefore the rough start. I disagree, this offense ran correctly can be and is deadly. I know I know I know it’s not unc basketball. Change is hard enough, but change without winning is rough.

 

[Archer2]

Well let’s face it. The vast majority of the guys playing on our football and basketball teams would not have gotten into UNC if they weren’t athletes.

 

[Grover Thomas]

Wow a team of slow learners got us to the Final 4 and the Championship game. That is impressive considering all the super bright intelligent teams we beat to get there.

 

[WoadBlue]

Well let’s face it. The vast majority of the guys playing on our football and basketball teams would not have gotten into UNC if they weren’t athletes.

But lacking top academic ability does not mean a person also is a Regressive Learner in advanced sports. If a basketball player keeps unlearning what he learned to do that him and his team successful, then he always is going to be dragging himself and the team backwards. No matter their raw athleticism, such players hurt a team. Multiple such players, and the program could face really serious issues.

 

[TarHeelFanWV]

Wow a team of slow learners got us to the Final 4 and the Championship game. That is impressive considering all the super bright intelligent teams we beat to get there.

We beat an injured Baylor team, a lucky St. Peter’s team, and an overrated UCLA team where Love had a good shooting game that is inconsistent. Don’t get too far ahead of yourself

 

[Archer2]

But lacking top academic ability does not mean a person also is a Regressive Learner in advanced sports. If a basketball player keeps unlearning what he learned to do that him and his team successful, then he always is going to be dragging himself and the team backwards. No matter their raw athleticism, such players hurt a team. Multiple such players, and the program could face really serious issues.

There is a direct correlation between intelligence and the ability to learn and retain what one has learned. Basketball is an extremely simple game, football a little more complex. But neither should be beyond a person of average intelligence with the possible exception of the QB position. Since many other schools are able to teach their players and have their players retain that knowledge, I have to assume that our players aren’t receiving proper instruction.

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

Wow a team of slow learners got us to the Final 4 and the Championship game. That is impressive considering all the super bright intelligent teams we beat to get there.

Yeah, but that might just show that slow learners (and players who regress in the off-season) can nevertheless come on strong later in the season.

That certainly describes our team last year.

Just because we got good at the end doesn't prove we have a team full of slow learners or regressives, but if it happens again - as seems to be happening - it's suggestive.

Ty Lawson was the first player I ever noticed that with. Whereas his teammate Wayne Ellington would pretty much pick up where he left off, it seemed like it could take Ty a dozen games to get back to the previous season's level. But he would get there, and improve on the previous year, to boot.

I'm looking for this team to get it together a lot quicker than last year's squad did. I mean, that should happen, shouldn't it? It's only "new" for Nance and the freshmen, after all. And only 2 of them (Nance and Trimble) are getting meaningful minutes.

 

[WoadBlue]

There is a direct correlation between intelligence and the ability to learn and retain what one has learned. Basketball is an extremely simple game, football a little more complex. But neither should be beyond a person of average intelligence with the possible exception of the QB position. Since many other schools are able to teach their players and have their players retain that knowledge, I have to assume that our players aren’t receiving proper instruction.

That is possible, and if so, it began before Roy stepped down. All coaches go over the hill, and the longe they stay after that point the more they hurt the program. Roy may have waited about 3 years or so too long.

Whatever it is, this team looked like crap to start last season, and then got very hot at the end of the year. And now it looks a bit worse than it did early last season. This team has regressed from what it was at the end of last season.

And the long this keeps up, the bigger the hole that must be refilled and smoothed over.

 

[WoadBlue]

Yeah, but that might just show that slow learners (and players who regress in the off-season) can nevertheless come on strong later in the season.

That certainly describes our team last year.

Just because we got good at the end doesn't prove we have a team full of slow learners or regressives, but if it happens again - as seems to be happening - it's suggestive.

Ty Lawson was the first player I ever noticed that with. Whereas his teammate Wayne Ellington would pretty much pick up where he left off, it seemed like it could take Ty a dozen games to get back to the previous season's level. But he would get there, and improve on the previous year, to boot.

I'm looking for this team to get it together a lot quicker than last year's squad did. I mean, that should happen, shouldn't it? It's only "new" for Nance and the freshmen, after all. And only 2 of them (Nance and Trimble) are getting meaningful minutes.

I hadn't thought about Lawson in this regard but you are on to something. He would regress, and that''s why I always complained about him at the start of the season. And then he could be counted on to get back the good play long before tournament time.

Could this team at the end of the season get really hot like it did last year? Sure. If it doesn't, then the problems are even worse.

 

[NCAAUCoach]

A lot of it is the maturity to understand the difference in "me" and "we". We success leads to me success...not the opposite (when looking to win Championships).

 

[gobblercalls]

I don't think they are "regressive learners" at all! I think Caleb and RJ are both in the top 3 or 4 most selfish players to ever play at UNC. I for one will be glad to see them go, the sooner the better. 3 years is long enough to have to watch this disaster.