It was pretty much agreed upon that Orrville's Jacob Bolyard and Lexington's Courtney Avery were the 2 most deserving players to be named POY. Both were at the top of the league all season in scoring, and both lead their respective teams night in and night out. Both put up pretty similar numbers...or did they? Let's break it down.
For the sake of fairness, we'll look at regular season numbers only.
Season points
Jake - 388 - 19.3 avg.
Countney - 377 - 18.85 avg.
Advantage: Jake
2 pt. Field Goal Pct.
Jake - 36.8% on 265 attempts.
Courtney - 48% on 164 attempts.
Advantage: Courtney
3 pt. Field Goal Pct.
Jake - 32.6% on 86 attempts.
Courntney - 32.3% on 161 attempts.
Advantage: I'll call this a "push."
Free Throw Pct.
Jake - 77.1%
Courtney - 76.8%
Advantage: Technically Jake, but probably a "push"
Rebounds
Jake - 126 (6.3 per game)
Courtney - 46 (2.3 per game)
Advantage: Jake
Steals
Jake - 70 (3.3 per game)
Courtney - 29 (1.38 per game)
Advantage: Jake
Assists
Jake - 45 (2.3 per game)
Courtney - 32 (1.6 per game)
Advantage: Jake
Jersey Number
Jake - #12 (Terry Bradshaw, Steve Alford, Roger Staubach and even MJ...once)
Courtney - #22 (Larry Nance? Will Clark? Some guy named Kaka?)
Advantage: Jake
There you have it, so simple when you break things down scientifically......the numbers speak for themselves.
Let me be real clear. Courtney Avery is a very special athlete. He's now won the OCC Football and OCC Basketball POY in one school year AS A JUNIOR, a very rare feat, but given the above statistical proof, this should have been AT LEAST a shared award between Jake and Courtney, and a convincing arguement could be made that Jake deserved the award more than Courtney.
In my opinion, this is the 2nd Orrville athlete that's been snubbed, just this year. The first being Chase Hoobler having to share the Defensive POY during football season.
I'm trying my best to look at this without my Red Rider colored glasses, and I'm not going to call this some kind of conspiracy or that the OCC coaches are showing some sort of "anti-Orrville" bias, but I do think our geographic location in the conference hurts us. We're kind of on an island, and other than the coverage from the Wooster Daily Record, we don't really get much exposure, especially in the Mansfield area (understandably so, it's not in their coverage area).
I'd like to know how this was settled on. Do the league coaches vote on it? Does the Media? Does some sort of committee vote based on stats submitted by each team?
Here is the entire list of selections, and here are the Orrville players who earned recognition...
First Team
Jake Bolyard - Jr. - 19.4 ppg/6.3 rpg/3.3 spg/2.3 apg
Zach Wasson - Soph. - 14.9 ppg/7.9 rpg
Second Team
Teven Mitchell - Sr. - 9.3 ppg/3.1 rpg/2 apg
Honorable Mention
Joey Besancon - Jr. - 6.9ppg/1.5 apg/1 rpg
Syndell Gant - Sr. - 3.1ppg/4.8 rpg/2.3 apg/1.5 spg
Coach of the Year
Doug Rickert/Mansfield Madison
2 comments:
I can fill you in on the voting process for OCC Player of the Year having been to a meeting in the past. Each coach is given the opportunity to nominate one of his players for POY. Then each coach, who nominated, gets about a minute or two to talk about their player, give stats, give reason why he should POY, etc. Then a piece of paper is given to each coach to vote and then the vote is read aloud including what school (or coach) voted for each player.
Thanks for the insight....very interesting.
I can't argue with the fact that coaches are the ones who vote....better than the media in a slanted coverage area.
I hope this years vote was at least close.
Thanks again for contributing.
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