West Virginia Wesleyan Men’s Basketball Assistant Coach. Psalm 23
Buckhannon, WV
Joined December 2014
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It was an 84 point turnaround from one year to the next. Way to go, @CoachKellar_ Coach Kellar.
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Career stats‼️‼️
1,764 PPG
500 Assists 306 TO 1.6 A/T0
278 3s Made
200 steals
38% 3 Point over the past 3 years (581 attempts)
2X all conference
1x SWAC Impact player of the Week
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Straight from the mouth of a mid-major D1 coach a few minutes ago. I told him I needed to write this stuff down and share with everyone.
We were talking about a few players that I work with and he was telling me about how ridiculous recruiting is getting.
"Everyone's running out of roster spots... so we are all like, 'this guy sucks' [when watching a player] because he's not an absolute dude. And we're all passing on good players because you'll probably be able to find an older or more experienced guy down the road".
"We basically have 3 different recruiting classes each year. High school, JC, and portal. And you don't even know how many roster spots you're actually gonna have".
"We have so few roster spots that we are grading kids on such high scales. Like a high school guy has to be a starter as a freshman or we can't recruit him. And then if he shows up and actually starts as a freshman for us he'll probably leave and get more money from a bigger school. So you can't win. And then we just end up sitting in a holding pattern."
"The value of a single roster spot for us has gone up a ton because the total amount of spots we have has gone down, but the dollar amount per spot has gone up with scholarships increasing. So we are investing more in these guys, and expecting more."
This is the sentiment amongst most D1 coaches at this point and honestly a large population of D2 and D3 programs that are incentivized to be patient and wait for an older guy rather than recruiting young. High tier academic schools operate on a different timeline, and there are certainly some other exceptions. But this is the new reality for most programs.
Players and families... do not assume that you are the exception and that this doesn't apply to you!
May the angels lead him into paradise! So sorry for your loss. We have a player here playing for me that played with him at one point. Heartbroken. @Londonth44
Heartbroken over Jaylon. He worked so hard this summer and was so close to changing his future. He was really about to shock the world.
We’ll carry your legacy forever, Jaylon. 🕊️💔
@IndyPiratesMBB @JUCOadvocate
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You will never be liked by everyone as a coach. Your heart could be in the right place and people will still dislike you. Gotta be okay with that. You have to make tough decisions based on what’s best for the team and many times that may not be what’s best for the individual.
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All they needed was a one page document.
“If you voluntarily choose to associate with the NCAA you have to follow their rules and regulations, you are not allowed to judge shop to get favorable rulings.”
That’s it. That’s all we needed.
But politicians had to get involved and every special favor and set aside was added that we never needed to save college athletics.
It shouldn’t be a “save college sports” act, it should be a “save us from politicians” act.
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Ben McCollum shares what it feels like to be around first-place people and a first-place culture.
"I went to Northwest Missouri State, and my first practice with Steve Tapmeyer - best coach I've ever been around - I sat there and I'm like, 'This is what first place feels like. This is what a first-place culture feels like. This is what first-place people feel like.'"
That was the wake-up call. He realized what first-place people have:
"They've got an extreme work ethic. They've got an edge to 'em that other people don't - a competitive spirit."
Then he quoted John Thompson:
"You can tame a fool a lot quicker than you can resurrect a corpse...We want guys with a little edge to 'em."
You can coach skills, but you can't coach competitive spirit. You don't want to consistently coach their effort and attitude.
The last thing they look for: Energy givers.
"Over the years, we found that guys that are moody don't make it in our program."
"If you're moody, if you have low energy, if you suck the life out of the building - you don't make it."
Talent isn't enough. Your energy matters. Your attitude matters.
Successful people have a competitive edge, they bring energy, and they look to consistently get better.
They raise the standard through what they do.
(🎥 Watts Happening Podcast)
Well, they’re not gonna say they don’t like it here. It becomes a good bargaining chip
Funny how you
1) ignore what Lowe said himself about liking it here
2) Ignore a balanced CBA would enable him to stay here
3) there is not a single reliable source that backs up what you said, but go ahead and make shit up
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Exactly. Spot on! The Pirates would still be playing. Not to say anything about the lack of protection in the lineup because those guys were gone.
Cruz was still 2nd in CF WAR in the NL Central and top 10 overall amongst the position group despite missing all that time. Where would the Pirates have been if he and Griffin didn’t miss so many games? That’s gonna be one that we will wonder about for awhile
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