For a man who presumably takes confessions, quite the naive statement.
Quite the contrary actually. What is naive is to think that you are qualified to judge the character of a person that you know next to nothing about. Any of us can be made to look like a villain by coming up with a list of our faults and moments of anger/frustration. No one is a saint, but that doesn't make them irredeemable (not using religious language here). Sure, he's not a good basketball coach, we have a preponderance of evidence to support that claim; but not so much so for him as a person.
Quite the contrary actually. What is naive is to think that you are qualified to judge the character of a person that you know next to nothing about. Any of us can be made to look like a villain by coming up with a list of our faults and moments of anger/frustration. No one is a saint, but that doesn't make them irredeemable (not using religious language here). Sure, he's not a good basketball coach, we have a preponderance of evidence to support that claim; but not so much so for him as a person.
Quite the contrary actually. What is naive is to think that you are qualified to judge the character of a person that you know next to nothing about. Any of us can be made to look like a villain by coming up with a list of our faults and moments of anger/frustration. No one is a saint, but that doesn't make them irredeemable (not using religious language here). Sure, he's not a good basketball coach, we have a preponderance of evidence to support that claim; but not so much so for him as a person.
I agree with the bold, but that doesn't make Buzz suck any less. The article has curiously gone missing from the interwebs, but here's a mention of the incident in question:
After years of mediocrity, Colorado hoops fans are ecstatic about the arrival of former Air Force and Denver Nuggets coach Jeff [Redacted]. Unfortunately, some of [Redacted]'s early moves have rubbed people the wrong way. On Tuesday, the school issued a release saying sophomore guard Kelvin Bay -- who averaged 6.3 points, 1.9 assists and 1.3 rebounds per game as a freshman -- will not return to the team next season. The following day, the Rocky Mountain News reported that Bay and three other freshman (Marc Van Burck, Sean Kowal and James Inge) were not leaving on their own accord. Instead, the paper reported, [Redacted] told the players their scholarships wouldn't be renewed.
Bay, who was still on the Boulder campus, got booted from his dorm room last Friday because the school's "May-mester" ended on May 31 and he was forced to stay with a couple friends on the women's team. Inge, who is in good academic standing and played in 15 games last season -- is going through the appeals process and told the paper, "My scholarship was taken unjustly, then it comes out that I chose to leave, which is totally untrue."
We feel for Inge. He made a commitment to attend Colorado for four years and the school made a commitment back to him. He held up his end of the deal and shouldn't be punished by a new coach. While we know [Redacted] wants to put the best possible team on the floor, he shouldn't do it at the expense of a young man's future, especially one who did everything asked of him. Coaches can come and go at will and the players must stay put or risk having to sit out a year if they transfer. Now, we're learning that players are being viewed as disposable commodities. That just isn't right.
whoa, neg rep from the good REV
I will turn the other cheek
You must be ready for church on Sunday, that's the Gospel reading!
I agree with that...a rarity. .One of his biggest problems is he refuses to understand the difference between coaching in the pros and in college. In the NBA, it's their job and you cna handle the players much rougher. He doesn't get (or doesn't care) that you don't hammer college kids in the same way.
I think he is incompetent when it comes to being a college basketball coach. That doesn't make him a jackass.
Quite the contrary actually. What is naive is to think that you are qualified to judge the character of a person that you know next to nothing about. Any of us can be made to look like a villain by coming up with a list of our faults and moments of anger/frustration. No one is a saint, but that doesn't make them irredeemable (not using religious language here). Sure, he's not a good basketball coach, we have a preponderance of evidence to support that claim; but not so much so for him as a person.
All I'm saying is that it's really easy to find evidence to support your conclusion when you don't rely on primary resources (lots of "he/she said" being thrown around). I guess the point is this - why do we need to be the jury of his morality/character? Does he have character flaws? Probably. But if he was winning, we'd ignore those. But the program is in the toilet, so it seems the criticism should be there.
The only reason this is even an issue to people is because [Redacted] is a bad basketball coach. If Wake was winning a lot of basketball games, no one would really care if he was a jackass. Boeheim and K are the best two coaches in the conference and are enormous jackasses. Most people here would love to hire Gregg Marshall and by all accounts is a jackass. IMO whether he is or isn't a jackass is completely irrelevant in my perception of him. The fact that he is a miserable failure at being a head coach is all that really matters to me.