That may be scant preparation for the manifold problems that await him.
Vital matters such as the scant preparation made for the winter to come have not played out on screen.
Every time a substitute teacher takes over a class, he or she walks into unknown territory, often with scant preparation and no knowledge of the students.
If the scant preparation time does no one any favours, there is at least a sense that Gatland has a clear plan already.
If he does not play, Favre, coming off a five-month retirement, would have had only seven series of work since January, scant preparation for someone learning a new offensive language.
Culpepper has covered five Olympics and 11 Super Bowls and was nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize, but this was scant preparation for a season (2006/07) going home and away with Portsmouth.
While Williams refused to use her scant preparation as the reason behind her loss, Schett realized that a first-round meeting with one of the Tour's most powerful stars left her with the best chance of beating her.
But even that is scant preparation for this riot of torture, odd sex, wrestling, ecclesiastical corruption, twisted philosophy and good, old-fashioned corruption in Madsen's salacious recreation of Renaissance Rome.
Ms. Davis had never started a business before, and her work experience in movie promotion and her education, as an English and Africana studies major at Bowdoin College, were scant preparation.
Even so, that was scant preparation for the often scathing coverage of the national team.
