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Kruger trying to instill intensity in Sooners [The Oklahoman]
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This article makes it clear that Coach Kruger and his staff are focusing on everything this team needs to improve on if they hope to turn the tide in what's left of their season. Yet, we continue to read the same player quotes after every loss. Makes me wonder if they actually get it, or they're just good at saying the right things?
To use an old cliche', "talk is cheap!" Saturday's loss was the 23rd game of the season, not the 3rd game. It's time (past time, really) to take these worn out quotes to the court and prove they actually get what their head coach is trying to sell.
To use an old cliche', "talk is cheap!" Saturday's loss was the 23rd game of the season, not the 3rd game. It's time (past time, really) to take these worn out quotes to the court and prove they actually get what their head coach is trying to sell.
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I empathize with this coaching staff...and, I agree that they xeroxed the post game notes\comments by coaches and players early-on and just bring out a copy after each game.
Another old cliche, "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink" applies here as well.
The team is made up of individual players, all with different personalities, abilities, interests, liabilities, etc.
It would be interesting to see LK's assessment of who's drinking the water he's providing, and how much. However, calling out individual players is not too PC.
It is late in the season, that in itself might make it more palatable to invoke some serious solutions...nothing to lose.
As an amateur, I would have informed the players on the way back to Norman from West Texas, that they're lucky not to be hoofing it; that we have a game Tuesday against the Texas Longhorns, a team, which I assume on paper, is more talented at every position than us, and that the coaching staff expects a win; that anything short of a win could only possibly be mitigated with a blood covered court, with varying amounts of red/orange blood, depending on the situation.
I would tell them that game starters have a limited number of minutes to demonstrate how they were going to play, and if they had to be pulled for lack of effort/poor play, that they needed to immediately go to the end of the bench/locker because their services would no longer be needed during that game.
I would tell them that the final few games on the schedule would be played under those rules.
I would inform them that their scholarships for next year could be at risk, and if that was not a feasible solution, then their playing time for next year would absolutely be at risk, and they might want to consider a transfer. Might free up a few schollies for better players.
I would tell them in no uncertain terms that NO players are exempt from these rules.
Obviously, it's not hard to understand why I'm not a college coach.
Another old cliche, "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink" applies here as well.
The team is made up of individual players, all with different personalities, abilities, interests, liabilities, etc.
It would be interesting to see LK's assessment of who's drinking the water he's providing, and how much. However, calling out individual players is not too PC.
It is late in the season, that in itself might make it more palatable to invoke some serious solutions...nothing to lose.
As an amateur, I would have informed the players on the way back to Norman from West Texas, that they're lucky not to be hoofing it; that we have a game Tuesday against the Texas Longhorns, a team, which I assume on paper, is more talented at every position than us, and that the coaching staff expects a win; that anything short of a win could only possibly be mitigated with a blood covered court, with varying amounts of red/orange blood, depending on the situation.
I would tell them that game starters have a limited number of minutes to demonstrate how they were going to play, and if they had to be pulled for lack of effort/poor play, that they needed to immediately go to the end of the bench/locker because their services would no longer be needed during that game.
I would tell them that the final few games on the schedule would be played under those rules.
I would inform them that their scholarships for next year could be at risk, and if that was not a feasible solution, then their playing time for next year would absolutely be at risk, and they might want to consider a transfer. Might free up a few schollies for better players.
I would tell them in no uncertain terms that NO players are exempt from these rules.
Obviously, it's not hard to understand why I'm not a college coach.
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