Maybe you're right. Maybe everyone learns it along the line. Most of my college students, however, seemed never to have heard of IPA before. Spent half the term trying to get them not to refer to letters they'd learned, instead of separate sounds -- each of which has its own symbol. Maybe I was just unlucky! 😆
Off- topic discussion about the phonetic alphabet
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Your college students have definitely heard of IPA. Even Double IPA.
Personally not a fan of the vast majority of them. Too bitter or fruity!
Phonetics and Beer Consumption go hand in hand!
I'll make up an IPA stat, just to relate back to hoops.
Intensity Point Average... the coaches rate the desire of their players on a 10 point scale.
Audige got a 10. Robbie Beran got a lower score.
Yes. So have many one hit wonders in the music industry. It didn’t make the rest of their crap legendary.
There seems to be a difference of opinion over what sort of record constitutes success.
Thats all.
For me, a Big Ten winning percentage of .400 or better is a reasonable baseline to declare any sort of sustained success, Meaning I think we should be able to do that over, say, 8 years. If we get to .500 over that sort of span, that would have to be "very successful."
Right now Collins is 66-121, or 35.3%. With a couple good seasons in 10. A couple disasters. A couple major disappointments.
But next year, we have a strong chance to make the NCAA again - that would be 3 NCAA tournament appearances in 8 years. And our Big Ten winning percentage over that span gets to maybe 37.5%.
Next season is pretty important from that perspective.
This. Further, it will provide insight to whether CCC is evolving or simply not. Will he play a system complimentary to his players or force a system upon his players.
It seems to me that we simply don't have the personnel to even consider the "stretch 5 + stretch 4" approach of the recent bad years. Our two centers (Nicholson and Preston) don't have shooting range. So we know how we can't play. (Yay!) While it may be possible that our coaching staff can't come up with anything better than last year's offensive approach, I have to believe we will at least add some wrinkles to that. With Martinelli, Nicholson and Barnhizer likely to improve individually, (and contributions from several others) its hard to imagine we won't score more effectively next season.
I think it is noteworthy that Collins went out and grabbed Preston (who is similar to Verhoeven) from the transfer portal instead of somebody in the Pete Nance mold.
It seems to me that last year's offense worked pretty well in getting cats open looks and the major failing of said offense was the inability to make open threes consistently. I don't think Collins will really change the O from last year, and expects/drills for more consistency at the three from his current roster.
As a linguist (one of only 3 in my graduating class at NU), I concur.
Brings me back to the days of learning the difference between a fricative and an affricate. One of the most important things a young person can learn....
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