The Other side of letting a coach go

[muskieman]

Elijah Tucker
@iamelijahtucker

Thank you for believing in me. Forever Thankful.
@CoachSteeleXU

[ChitownSteve]

Elijah Tucker
@iamelijahtucker

Thank you for believing in me. Forever Thankful.
@CoachSteeleXU

No one with a Christian Heart enjoys seeing anyone lose their job. Anyone in business also knows there are those who are elevated to high posts and whom the Peter Principle applies.

Would anyone of us like Travis Steele as a neighbor? Of course, even from afar he seems to be a nice person.

Some of us saw his coaching inadequacies last year. The mere fact that on Sunday he apparently requested another year and would resign if year five was unsuccessful indicative that he knew he was in over his head. Did he really make $1.8 million a year and had a $2.7 million buy out? A former college basketball Manager? What we we thinking?

Simply put, his shortcomings broke our hearts 50 times.

[kyzrex]

I’m happy that Tucker has the class to put this up. I hope that the rest of the players felt the same way. Part of the problem may have been that not all of them felt this same way?



I guess that every coach that enters the college ranks at a high major school believes that they are going to be the next coach K or coach Few and will be there forever, but that’s not reality. The reality is that virtually every coach leaves at sometime and most often it’s not by their own choice. I also guess that college recruits/players understand this. I went through 2 coaches during my time at X and another afterwards, during my grad year elsewhere. I learned a lot from each of them and from the experiences, and I’ve remained friends with all of them. Most players adapt quickly and accept coaches moving on as part of the deal. It happens at the HS level too. In fact, if you go back far enough in a player’s career they will have played for probably half a dozen different coaches by the time they get to college. Losing a coach, even at the college level, is not that big of a deal for most players. Right now they are still in their routine and are more concentrating on preparing for the next game and getting their school work done, than worrying about who will be the coach next year.

[yellow20xd]

... Right now they are still in their routine and are more concentrating on preparing for the next game and getting their school work done, than worrying about who will be the coach next year.

I gonna disagree with this. The is akin to losing a parent as a player. I picked my college program because of the HC and his assistants. Our HC retired after my freshman year, luckily for me a trusted assistant was elevated but the few days before the new hiring was very stressful for the team. These guys are glued to whatever device, texting and viewing any site that'll give them incite into who the next coach is going to be. Will they fit in the new coach's system? Where they already recruited by the guy and were turned off by his personality? Who's gonna stay, who's leaving? They can't go to class because everyone will be asking them who the next HC is. When they get to practice Steele isn't there, Jona's gonna have his routine. Afterwards the worries all start again... Until this is settled nothing is routine... Dan

[kyzrex]

... Right now they are still in their routine and are more concentrating on preparing for the next game and getting their school work done, than worrying about who will be the coach next year.

I gonna disagree with this. The is akin to losing a parent as a player. I picked my college program because of the HC and his assistants. Our HC retired after my freshman year, luckily for me a trusted assistant was elevated but the few days before the new hiring was very stressful for the team. These guys are glued to whatever device, texting and viewing any site that'll give them incite into who the next coach is going to be. Will they fit in the new coach's system? Where they already recruited by the guy and were turned off by his personality? Who's gonna stay, who's leaving? They can't go to class because everyone will be asking them who the next HC is. When they get to practice Steele isn't there, Jona's gonna have his routine. Afterwards the worries all start again... Until this is settled nothing is routine... Dan

Guess everyone is different. Sure it concerned me and I wondered what would change, but I had to take care of my own business first. Of course we didn’t have the internet back then and we just had to wait and see.