UMGriz75
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I've reproduced on other threads "tweets" from players and former players. Not happy.PlayerRep said:So you "tell it like it is" by putting out a tweet, and not talking to the player or players involved or team? And you diss the player, an important player who won games for the team this year and is expected to be the guy next year? And you piss off this well-liked guy's friends and the team by going off on him behind his back? If you start losing the team by what you say and do, and even if you start bringing in too many transfers, at some point, you aren't going to be improving the team. Also, if you alienate too many former players and big supporters, you aren't helping yourself, or helping the team in the long run. There are right ways and wrong ways to do the same, or essentially the same, thing. This is not the right way.
There appears to be two schools of thought, 1) coaches should be abusive and condescending to players -- "makes 'em tough" or 2) coaches should respect players, and the coach effectiveness is measured by player respect because they want to run through walls for their coach.
Based on more years of coaching experience than any of the current occupants, I learned, perhaps the hard way, to respect the player's opinions more than that of fans and board moderators. Stitt is defining himself, in part, as having explosions of anger. Anger can be a positive tool. Not always, cfi Mike Kramer. It is too early in Stitt's FCS career to adjudge the difference between an anger of determination and an anger of petulance.