More thoughts from John Adams

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

The other thing that I thought was a little off the mark was the comment that "anticipation" is helpful in high school, but not in college. His thinking seems to be that because the players are more skilled and athletic, they can do things that aren't seen in most high school games; so you can't (or shouldn't) anticipate what might happen. But this seems to show a misunderstanding of what we're anticipating. We're not anticipating that we're going to call a foul on the defender and then -- OOPS! -- he actually got to the spot first and it should've been a charge. We're anticipating that we're about to have a one-on-one drive with a possible crash, so we locate the defender. Anticipate the PLAY, not the CALL. I think that's just as valid at the college level as in high school.

Anybody think I'm way off-base?

I think what he is saying is that a play we anticipate in high school is not the same play we can anticipate in a college game. In HS that play may only have 1 or 2 possible outcomes that we look for but in college the athletism of the players allows for 4 or 5 possible outcomes. That's my interpretation of his statement.