MissoulaMarinerFan
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citay said:Dillon said:I may be way off base here but my take on the whole thing is Shannon is trying to coach like Selvig coached & Selvig coached like Heathcoat coached. In your face, high pressure all the time, my way or the highway kind of thing. Shannon needs to do her own thing. Time to try a different approach Coach! Players will play their hearts out if they respect & admire her. Just one mans opinion.citay said:maroonandsilver said:I find it most disturbing that AAU coaches are steering their girls away from the Lady Griz.
One of the former Lady Griz, who chose to leave with eligibility remaining, recently told me that playing for Shannon was "the worst experience of my life!).
I would guess that when you are as good a player as Shannon was (and she was VERY good, a Kodak All-American, remember) you lose patience fast with players less skilled, players who are not at your level and never will be. There is a notable arrogance that develops when you are as good as Shannon was, and that arrogance probably carries over as a coach. So there's probably a great deal of frustration on both sides of the equation, players and coach.
But if her attitude is such that it's driving away players, and creating animosity among AAU coaches, then this can't last. It's very much my opinion that within any subset of American culture, be it sports, business, academia, entertainment or whatever, reputation counts, and bad news spreads fast. As a friend of mine once said, "Ya gotta draw the line somewhere."
That's a good opinion, in my view. You've drawn a direct link to a coach who was not only the trunk of the Montana coaching tree, but "old school" as well. But the Bobby Knight school of coaching--yelling, humiliating players in public--is long gone. Let a Tom Izzo humiliate a player in public, as he did this past year, and there are recriminations, explanations and apologies all around. Steve Kerr is today's model coach.
I wonder Selvig sounded like a hard-ass on the court during game day, but not practice? It was kind of comical when Selvig would "yell" at a player during the game...and by yelling, I mean, if they did something wrong, he would shout their first name somewhat exasperatedly and then shake his head and mumble to himself. Just by shouting a first name he seemed to imply "hey, don't do that! we went over and over this during practice!" :lol: