Damn ,Kodi's HS coach dogging Rick
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And that's why AAU coaches are not really good "coaches" and more like agents. Any real coach wouldn't have said this:
Eurey said he knows Augustus would be well-served to have a better attitude, but he still comes down on his former pupil's side. "I think Kodi probably could have a better attitude in terms of how he's going about it. But the thing about it is, when you're sitting so long and you know guys that are playing aren't better than you, what kind of attitude are you going to have?"
Basically when you get in the doghouse you have to work extra hard to get out of it and show the coach that you're willing to do what he says even if you don't personally agree with it. I do think Rick might be part of the problem with all the recent transfers but seems like a lot of it is prima-donna players who have people constantly in their ear telling them they are better than they really are.
Eurey said he knows Augustus would be well-served to have a better attitude, but he still comes down on his former pupil's side. "I think Kodi probably could have a better attitude in terms of how he's going about it. But the thing about it is, when you're sitting so long and you know guys that are playing aren't better than you, what kind of attitude are you going to have?"
Basically when you get in the doghouse you have to work extra hard to get out of it and show the coach that you're willing to do what he says even if you don't personally agree with it. I do think Rick might be part of the problem with all the recent transfers but seems like a lot of it is prima-donna players who have people constantly in their ear telling them they are better than they really are.
That coach sure did mention how Kodi has had 'problems' many times thru the article. He said multiple times that Kodi hasnt helped himself in the situation.
i did find this quote interesting though-
"But my issue is, you knew who Kodi was when you got him. You knew he was an offensive player. Certain players are going to be offensive-minded, certain kids are going to be defensive-minded. … Kodi is a scorer, but I don't understand why he's not playing."
this is something that i have been saying for a long time now. its not as if all these 'problem children'(or whatever everyone wants to call em) all of a sudden got a bad attitude or suddenly became uncoachable. i just cant imagine the coaching staff was tricked by this many recruits and that all these recruits somehow masked their bad attitudes until they got to MSU where they suddenly started acting out and making demands.
it is absolutely true that some players are offensive minded, and others are defensive minded. clearly, Jarvis was defensive minded when he first came to MSU. Jamont was offensive minded when he came. They both worked to develop and improve the other side of their games, but the reality remains that players are usually better on one side of the ball than the other.
i did find this quote interesting though-
"But my issue is, you knew who Kodi was when you got him. You knew he was an offensive player. Certain players are going to be offensive-minded, certain kids are going to be defensive-minded. … Kodi is a scorer, but I don't understand why he's not playing."
this is something that i have been saying for a long time now. its not as if all these 'problem children'(or whatever everyone wants to call em) all of a sudden got a bad attitude or suddenly became uncoachable. i just cant imagine the coaching staff was tricked by this many recruits and that all these recruits somehow masked their bad attitudes until they got to MSU where they suddenly started acting out and making demands.
it is absolutely true that some players are offensive minded, and others are defensive minded. clearly, Jarvis was defensive minded when he first came to MSU. Jamont was offensive minded when he came. They both worked to develop and improve the other side of their games, but the reality remains that players are usually better on one side of the ball than the other.
I realize some players excel on offense and some on defense but Kodi was a sieve on defense and his offense in no way compensates for that. Rewarding players for having rotten attitudes is a really bad precedent to set also. How do you think Kodi refusing to go into a game because "he ain't a scrub" went over with the guys on the end of the bench?
"I heard" is usually about as legit as "Done Deal," but a guy who is with the team said that Augustus is lazy and has a poor attitude. Those are obvious statements. He also said that he has already requested to transfer, but Stans can't grant that until after the season. I don't think that he's tearing up the classroom, but he will still be able to transfer after this year. Maybe he will go to Notre Dame and pat little Ben on his brat ***. </p>
Eurey said Augustus is doing well academically and working to get back on the court. Eurey doesn't know if Augustus plans to leave MSU after the season, but he has noticed the trend of players transferring out of Starkville (see: Gary Ervin, the Delk twins, Ben Hansbrough, et al.). "Something's wrong," he said.
I agree something is wrong, is it the players fault(maybe), or is it the coaches fault for poor talent evaluation(maybe).
You can put some of the blame on each and I thing each transfer might be different.
Some of these kids just don't fit in at MSU and then Stans might run some of them off.</p>
I agree something is wrong, is it the players fault(maybe), or is it the coaches fault for poor talent evaluation(maybe).
You can put some of the blame on each and I thing each transfer might be different.
Some of these kids just don't fit in at MSU and then Stans might run some of them off.</p>
Yeah I'm sure the coaches know when they start recruiting a guy whether he is a defensive-minded guy or offensive-minded, but any coach worth a damn is gonna be confident enough in his and the rest of his staff's ability to teach the other side to the player to the point where is his not a liability on one end of the floor. I'm sure the issue isn't that Kodi isn't a lockdown defender, but more that he doesn't give a crap about defense and doesn't want to even be adequate defensively. If we had a coach that wasn't confident he could teach one end of the floor to a guy and only recruited guys who play both ends well, we wouldn't have much of a coach or much of a team because very few high school stars play defense well.
by trying to protect this egotistical, walter sharpe clone piece of ****? Next time one of these prima madonnas (copyright Indndawg) flashes his mangina and refuses to go in, and then Rick gets quizzed on it mercilessly by one of these gumshoe hacks in the "media," he needs to lay it out there like it happened. Tell the world that these shitheads sat their sulky *** on the floor at the feet of son #16, Hezekorah.