Frank Martin scares me!
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I am pretty sure that he is going to drop dead of a heart attack in the middle of a game one of these days....
If you would take the time to watch his postgame video, you'd like him. He really likes and respects Cal and was very complimentary of us.
I'm not sure how he is underrated. He has really not done anything in his career, other than the one great run to the Elite 8 at K-State.
I like him. He is a different person than the one you see on the court. Very well,spoken. He gets a bad rap for,getting on his players but his players will walk through walls for,the guy. He applauded them today in the post game for,their fight and rebounding. Said he didn't care about the score because he saw effort
Seems to have calmed down a little since his hay days at Kansas St. I don't know, don't really see him as a good coach or underrated. Has done nothing at USCjr. Might make the NIT this year but I really don't know. Like most of the other coached in the SEC. Gives his best shot at UK, and mediocre the rest of the season.
I've seen some interviews of him, and he's a good guy off the court, but goes overboard with the constant screaming
and berating of players. He's alot like Huggins to a greater extent, who he coached under for a few years at Cincinnati and
at Kansas St. I bet alot of you didn't know this, he was an assistant coach at Miami Sr high school when Gimel Martinez
and Allen Edwards played there.
and berating of players. He's alot like Huggins to a greater extent, who he coached under for a few years at Cincinnati and
at Kansas St. I bet alot of you didn't know this, he was an assistant coach at Miami Sr high school when Gimel Martinez
and Allen Edwards played there.
He employs the "Bobby Knight" style of coaching his players. He constantly gets up in his players' faces with his menacing stare all the while barking at them like some irate storm trooper. Cal gets on his players too but nothing to equal the likes of what Frank Martin does. I found it hard believe that many players and/or their parents would find such coaching acceptable but obviously they do because he has been coaching for quite a while with some limited measure of success.
The main difference is Bobby knight would never praise his players in a loss. Martin said he was proud of his team tonight and wasn't worried about the score or their record. He saw fight in them. Bobby would have never said that
I was thinking the same thing yesterday. He looks like he has been in a few scuffles. He reminds me of one of those hard nosed beer drinking guys from the 60s -70s when I was a kid.
He is certainly intense on the court but try listening to his post game interview. He sure says the right things and has nothing but good things to say about his players. I am not particularly thrilled with his in game antics but he sounds like he has his heart in the right place.