principalgriz said:I like what people have posted but a friend whose son played for UND said he was “surprised” Bobby hired this guy. He also said he wouldn’t be missed, as well as a couple of other derogatory things. I guess we will see if that is sour grapes or reality. Hoping the new coach is great.
Some kids don't like some coaches. I've spoken to one kid who played for Bobby and said he was mean and a bully and didn't treat them well. I had one guy say the same about Pease. The player also was one who never played and washed out.
Sometimes coaches are coaching hard and pushing trying to get something out of a kid, and the kid just doesn't respond well. Some coaches are much more gentle, but they never push kids hard enough to truly get them to reach their potential (that would be me as a coach, and why I know I am only qualified to be working with very small children to make it fun and teach some basics).
I've also talked to a lot more players that bought in, and say that Bobby's ability to instill discipline and regimen in their lives was a huge life changer for them, and they credit him with a lot of success. I've heard one player talk about Pease as "his guy from day one," and one guy call Pease a father figure to him. I had a coach last year laughingly tell me about how excited one of the kids from one of the southern states was to show up in Bobby's office in a big belt buckle and cowboy hat, to see if he looked like a real Montanan because he had met a cowgirl.
I've had bosses that I will tell you were a huge dick, and other people thrived under them. I've had bosses that other people absolutely despised, and I learned things from them that I still reach out thank them for to this day because they instilled in me hard things that have made me successful in ways I would not have been without their "coaching" on sales teams when I was young.
My point in all of this is that not every coach is for every player, but I've really stopped listening to sour grapes from ex players and ex employees.