I believe I refuted your argumentYou like strawman arguments, don't you?
I conceded that there were at least 5 guys that Ryan Young wouldn't have displaced.
I conceded that there were a couple teams in the Big Ten that were better than us at every position.
And you follow up by claiming that I think Ryan Young would have made Baylor a better team.
"A straw man is a form of argument and an informal fallacy of having the impression of refuting an argument, whereas the real subject of the argument was not addressed or refuted, but instead replaced with a false one."
OK. Thanks. I think I was too subtle for you. You're quote: "I do find your argument that "a lot of teams didn't play with a true center" to be odd. Its mainly because they didn't have one. Is that not fairly obvious?"You like strawman arguments, don't you?
I conceded that there were at least 5 guys that Ryan Young wouldn't have displaced.
I conceded that there were a couple teams in the Big Ten that were better than us at every position.
And you follow up by claiming that I think Ryan Young would have made Baylor a better team.
"A straw man is a form of argument and an informal fallacy of having the impression of refuting an argument, whereas the real subject of the argument was not addressed or refuted, but instead replaced with a false one."
I think I successfully refuted that argument. Lots of teams don't have true centers and don't need or want them unless they are dominating players. Baylor being the most obvious one. I was illustrating that point through the most extreme example. Baylor was perfectly fine playing without a true center. Similarly, several of the teams in the conference that you view as not having a true center (especially the good ones) might not have wanted to start Ryan Young. Like I said, if they wanted a true center, they could have offered Matt Nicholson. You agree that Michigan, Indiana, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Rutgers, and Purdue (7 teams) all had better big men. I believe your argument is that Young would have started at Ohio State, Wisconsin, Maryland and Michigan State. I am going to have to respectfully disagree with you on that point.
And one final question for you. You didn't think that Buie should have started for us. I believe you said he should come off the bench because Greer was better at feeding the post. So if he couldn't start for us, you are comfortable having him start for about half of the teams in the conference?