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<blockquote data-quote=".Bodhi." data-source="post: 131977977" data-attributes="member: 1683017">You defend Huggins like he's a 19 year old doing his old high school a solid by coaching the freshman team instead of a &quot;HOF&quot; coach, making 4 million a year, and purported to be the best coach WVU will ever get.I'm sure those coaches expect a lot, God knows they get more out of their players than Huggins has in 15 years here. Calipari even took a Huggins castoff, a &quot;supposed&quot; All-American, according to Huggins, and turned him into the favorite for National Player of Year.But I wonder if they look at a player like Gabe, who turns our offensive sets into 4 vs 5 on every possession, plays dumber than hell, but also hustles like hell, and expect to build a team around him. Of course they don't. They expect their players to give it everything they've got, but if you can't shoot, dribble, pass, see the floor, have a high school level IQ, you aren't getting a scholarship, let alone be a central cog on the team.The difference WVU and the other the hard-nosed teams is that WVU is ONLY hard-nosed. The other hard-nosed teams can also do other things...like make a layup, run an offense, make a foul shot. You know, the basics. On a scale of 1-10, WVU might be a 8.5 on the tenacity scale. The others might be a 7.5. But WVU is a 4 everywhere else, the rest are still in the 7s.</blockquote>

[QUOTE=".Bodhi., post: 131977977, member: 1683017"] You defend Huggins like he's a 19 year old doing his old high school a solid by coaching the freshman team instead of a "HOF" coach, making 4 million a year, and purported to be the best coach WVU will ever get. I'm sure those coaches expect a lot, God knows they get more out of their players than Huggins has in 15 years here. Calipari even took a Huggins castoff, a "supposed" All-American, according to Huggins, and turned him into the favorite for National Player of Year. But I wonder if they look at a player like Gabe, who turns our offensive sets into 4 vs 5 on every possession, plays dumber than hell, but also hustles like hell, and expect to build a team around him. Of course they don't. They expect their players to give it everything they've got, but if you can't shoot, dribble, pass, see the floor, have a high school level IQ, you aren't getting a scholarship, let alone be a central cog on the team. The difference WVU and the other the hard-nosed teams is that WVU is ONLY hard-nosed. The other hard-nosed teams can also do other things...like make a layup, run an offense, make a foul shot. You know, the basics. On a scale of 1-10, WVU might be a 8.5 on the tenacity scale. The others might be a 7.5. But WVU is a 4 everywhere else, the rest are still in the 7s. [/QUOTE]

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