10-21-2016, 12:22 PM
(10-21-2016, 12:16 PM)OrlandoBengal Wrote: You can have talented players, but if the play calling and/or scheme sucks they will not be successful. Also, players who don't perform do get cut. It happens all the time.
I'm not a college basketball fan and am too young to really remember Knight at Indiana, but I've read a few articles that said he liked being the boss and lording power over younger people who had little recourse. There is a big difference in coaching 19 year old kids living off scholarship versus 25 year old men who are making $2 million a year.
You are right.
Do you remember P.J. Carlesimo? Google P.J. Carlesimo gets choked by a player if not...
Knight is one of many college coaches accused of abusing their authority and bullying players. Clearly a college student has a lot more to lose if he or she does not listen to a coach. But the flip side is, why would a pro player care what a coach making a fraction of what he makes says, especially when if the player fails the coach will be fired, and the player will keep cashing pay checks? If you don't believe there is some truth in that, watch the sidelines at pro games a little more closely. It won't take long to see it.
One of the best football players and coaches in recent memory, imo, was Mike Singletary. He sent a petulant, pouting player to the locker room. Singletary subsequently lost his job. That is just one example among many (Carlesimo being one of the most dramatic).
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
