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Massachusetts Gillette Stadium Coaching Clinic this weekend

I will be at the annual MA coaching clinic at Gillette. Good list of speakers this year. This is my favorite clinic every year. They have a great combo of high school, college, and pro coaches that give hour long presentations on a topic. BC is sending Hafley, Duggan, and Tudryn (recruiting coordinator) to all give presentations. I probably won't see any of them speak though because I usually just go to the offensive presentations that are at the same time. I usually love going to the BC ones because you can get some nuggets from them about certain players and see practice films.

Here is who is coming and what they are discussing
BC Guys
Hafley- Secondary play
Duggan- LB fundamentals and practice drills
Tudryn- Recruiting Landscape in 2023- challenges and what they look for

Others
Don Brown- 3rd Down Defense (Maybe Haf and Duggan should go see him speak lol)
Ricky Santos (UNH)- Intermediate passing game and building playbook to your culture
Dante Scarnecchia- OL fundamentals
Nick Charlton (BC grad, Uconn OC)- Gameplanning 3rd down around your qb

plus lots of local high school coaches giving presentations about their schemes. ironically we play 2 of the schools presenting so it will be fun to sit front row in Dux gear

What would it take to make the NITs?

That's a serious question. There's not a lot of decent bracketology information for the lesser tournament, because there are too many uncertainties. But what do folks' intuitions say? At the risk of touching the money too early, for the sake of this exercise I'll count GT as a win, which would make us 10-10 in conference and 16-15 overall. How many ACC tournament games would we then need to win? One win? Definitely not. Two wins? Nope. That would make us 18-16 overall, which just doesn't feel like enough. Three wins? I think that does it, but that's just pure maroon-colored optimism talking. It's so hard to forecast the NIT. A lot probably depends on KenPom or whatever strength measurement the NIT uses. We're 166 in KenPom now after Wake, but I don't have any sense of how much that ranking would move up if we were to rip off four games in a row. (Now one of you guys are going to tell me I'm on crack for even thinking about this and that we need to win the ACC tournament to have a post-season.)
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