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Floyd Can or Cannot Coach? -- update

Tonight's Pac-10 tourney game shed more light on Tim Floyd's coaching m.o.  Ignoring the game, which SC had to win and Cal did not,  yet SC squandered all of a 15-point halftime lead before winning at the end, what the game reveals most importantly is character traits.

Leonard Washington (see multiple LA Times writeups) skipped class last week. Punishment?  He had to run some extra laps.  (A good trade for him, as class probably was an hour or more and laps much less, and perhaps equally educational to him.)  

He learned his lesson?  Uh, no.  This week he skipped a tutoring session.  (With Senora Ross?)  Punishment?  He had to miss a practice.  (Freeing up some more time for him.)  

But did this repeat offender miss a single game?  Of course not, because if SC lost to Cal tonight, they'd have had to go to the NIT despite being a ranked team in the preseason. I remember being at a game at Pauley when Wicks and Rowe sat for the entire first half, because they had, not missed a class, but shown up late for a team meal.  Coach wouldn't let that go without consequences; what would he have done if they had snubbed academic responsibilities twice?  But then as Coach says, crisis reveals character.  We see that once again at University of Study Circumvention, where athletics rules and where academics are Second Choice.

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University of Study Circumvention

Brilliant. I love it, and hope it gets used more!

by sponkey21 on Mar 13, 2009 12:03 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

i got a simple one

university of stupid coaches

by lilbobdog on Mar 13, 2009 2:46 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

I wouldn't call Timmie or Petey stupid...

but Slimy, Scummy, Swinish, or Sordid might fit pretty well.

by bornagainbruin on Mar 13, 2009 3:37 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

With Washinton in the game

our players better wear titanium cups!

"when you've seen how big the world is, how can you make due with this?"

by silverlakebruin on Mar 13, 2009 7:15 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

i don't see what all the hype is about floyd

every game i watch i hear that he’s such a great coach. but he’s never done anything with the teams he’s had. all this talk about junk defenses and scheming defensively… but it never seems to bother us when we play them. i guess that’s what they are JUNK.

I’m glad we have a coach that teaches our students to man up on the court and in life.

by lilbobdog on Mar 13, 2009 10:12 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Never bothers us?

I would disagree with that. U$C has given us problems, they beat us last year and we barely beat them the next two times. Floyd is not a great coach but he knows how to scheme, and the worst thing to do would be to understimate this U$C team. They have some players returning from injury and are still dangerous. That rebounding margin last night is not a fluke, Gibson is a monster on the boards. We have our work cut out for us and I expect a close game, but CBH will have the team prepared and we should pull it out!

But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.

by tasser10 on Mar 13, 2009 1:00 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

but i wouldn't attribute that loss to floyd's ability to coach

we lost last year because luc got hurt and we were too amped up as most rivalry games tend to be.

I’ve watched several of their games in the past and all the time commentators and others are effusive in saying that floyd is such a great coach. I just don’t see it.

perhaps it is because he recruits mostly thugs and their posse to fill out his roster (ahem, lil romeo) and so his direction doesn’t translate onto the floor. but shouldn’t a coach be held accountable for facilitating such hooliganism on and off the court?

by lilbobdog on Mar 13, 2009 2:45 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Floyd is considered a great coach because of what he did at UNO and Iowa St.

At UNO he won 20 games six times in eight years and went to seven postseasons. He was at Iowa St. for four years and he won 20 games in the last three there. He won a first round NCAA tournament game in those three years and made a Sweet 16. Those three years at ISU were the most success the program had ever had in a 3 year span. I don’t know enough details about what happened at UNO or Iowa St., but the numbers are awfully impressive considering the past history there and that it’s Ames, Iowa.

by Ryan Rosenblatt on Mar 13, 2009 3:25 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Ah, Floyd's Sweet-16 appearance while at ISU

Just the thought of who outcoached him warms my heart.

by bornagainbruin on Mar 13, 2009 3:43 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

I'm well aware of his success at ISU

especially that team that featured jamaal tinsley and marcus fizer (not so much UNO, where is that?) but again having seen his work more up close and personal here in LA, i’m not too impressed. Let’s remember even the lizard recruited #1 classes and “led” teams to sweet sixteens.

by lilbobdog on Mar 13, 2009 8:13 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

oops

never mind i guess that was larry eustachy’s team. my bad

was it lavin that beat timmeh’s isu team? wow that would be funny.

by lilbobdog on Mar 13, 2009 8:16 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Timmy's coaching

His technique isn’t that difficult:

“We pay you to play better defense than that!”

by AllHailMightyBruins on Mar 13, 2009 11:12 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

One who has advance payment...

LA Times today highlights some of the Renardo Sidney “incidents” that demonstrate his suitability to play next year in the heavy-discipline program of Tim Floyd. Of special note is his proclamation that he has far more money than any of the teachers at Fairfax High. Wonder where he earned it. Less detail is provided about his run-ins with referees and his foul-mouth tirades against opponents. Look forward to seeing him visit Pauley, assuming SC can get him to take the SAT and further assuming he meets their extremely tough entrance standards for student athletes (i.e., One and Dumb).

by ucla7477 on Mar 13, 2009 1:57 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Timmeh is a great game day coach

and a horrible program builder.

"when you've seen how big the world is, how can you make due with this?"

by silverlakebruin on Mar 13, 2009 1:54 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

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