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Ok. So what was wrong with the previous environment? Did the players not like winning?
Of course they did...Kermit ran a very complicated, multi play, methodical style of play - he treated players as robots. He also ruled and could be abusive; this can make players play differently. It worked a lot the last 5-6 years. However, it didn't work against Marshall or USM at the end when they needed something else.
So while we have won more lately that doesn't mean that is the only way to win.
I didn't see anyone suggest it was the only way to win. I simply asked what was the issue with the environment.
From my vantage point, Kermit evolved quite a bit from his days prior to the great run. Now, I'm not going to sit here like I'm at practice everyday so there is a lot I don't see. But what I did see in those first seven or eight years are all the things Mike described. In the last seven or eight, I witnessed him change quite a bit. I would even venture to say nearly a 180.
While college basketball has turned into musical chairs with nearly a thousand players transferring now annually not a single player left Kermit over the past seven years voluntarily, when he couldn't keep a roster together in the first half of his tenure, so I was just curious what was so bad about the environment given the team was winning and no one was leaving. In this century, kids are being raised to expect something. They are entitled. Or at least they believe they are entitled...to whatever they want. Win or lose I actually kind of like the fact that Kermit was tough on them. They will be better adults for it - especially if they didn't get much at home. If McDevitt soft and caters to this mentality his teams will be soft too. Only those coaches that can still teach discipline and do it while also having to deal with the millennial are going to be successful now and going forward. It's a sad indictment on our society.
Reports have Buffen committing to Ole Miss.
After all the talk of hoping for the best for MT, always following the Raiders, help in any way I can, staying a member of the BRAA ,etc.:
KERMIT DAVIS CAN OFFICIALLY KISS MY ASS