Larry Salley

Still a teacher, coach, and competitor. Always a Cyclone and a Gamecock. Proudest to be a Christian husband, father, and papa.

[Larry Salley @CoachLarrySal]

@OleTimeHardball Best 4-5 year peak of any player EVER. Best player ever if you stop counting in 1987-88. After that, longevity starts to play a role… Magic passes him, Jordan comes in, etc.

[Larry Salley @CoachLarrySal]

@LarryBirdDaily I love Kobe, but he’s the 2nd best SG and no better than 3rd best Laker in this photo. There’s no human who knows ball who makes an all-time starting 5 with him over Jordan. All the others make somebody’s list at their position.

[Larry Salley @CoachLarrySal]

@MrMaxPrice @coachFMartin True story: during Covid, when we had to rethink everything, my CFO asked “describe our ticketing system.” I said, “I have no idea. I give Mrs. Claudia a schedule, and money is in the safe after. It’s been that way since 1980.”

[Larry Salley @CoachLarrySal]

@MrMaxPrice @coachFMartin An addendum—I tried to refund him, and Coach said, “it’s for the kids, don’t worry about it.”

[Larry Salley @CoachLarrySal]

@MrMaxPrice The school where I was AD had the best ticket taker in history. Mrs. Claudia did the job when I was in middle school. When she charged $20 to @coachFMartin for a tourney, I said, “Claudia, he’s the head coach at USC!” She smiled and replied, “and he didn’t have a ticket.”

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@VinnysCorner1 Dale Murphy

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@anymanfitness Kid I “coached” in HS became a SEAL officer. He coached for us when I was AD, and when I could get 20 good pull-ups. One day I asked, “how many could you do back when you were active?” He said 35-40, but never w/o at least a 25-lb plate. Humbling, for sure!

[Larry Salley @CoachLarrySal]

@FixingEducation 32 years. Teaching? Still about 7-8. But I only get to actually teach about 25% of the time. So give me a 2.

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BTW, the night of my senior prom was the lower state track meet, and I anchored the mile relay. So I’m the last guy in the last event, 2 hours away. Ran a PR, drove home, skipped dinner, made the dance. Been married to my date 35 years.

[Larry Salley @CoachLarrySal]

There’s a big conversation right now about kids missing a game for prom. Worth noting: it was a PLAYOFF game, so the school/coach didn’t schedule it on prom night, and there were consequences to the whole team based on its outcome. That’s a no-brainer. You play .

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@collinsworth55 However, it does benefit the boy. And the school/program. In AAU, you play for yourself. In HS, you play for your team/school. And your AAU team won’t have reunions. At your 30th HS reunion you’ll still sit with the guys you rode the bus with.

[Larry Salley @CoachLarrySal]

@LKWChargerAD Your opponent who hires “stipend only” coaches who are pros will usually beat your 8th grade math guy who loves the game and believes in educating the whole student. I’d prefer the old world of the true teacher/coach, but for the most part that has changed.

[Larry Salley @CoachLarrySal]

@LKWChargerAD If you go to the National AD Conference every year, there will be multiple sessions on this. And the cumulative takeaway is “you’re not alone.” And to be fair, unless you hire with coaching as a primary focus, you’ll not often like the results you get making a teacher fake it.

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@GamecockBourbon @BobbyWilson1004 Yeah, like I said, I’m a teacher. And my grandfather voted for Strom as a “Dixiecrat” in 1948. It was just funny that the only two adults in the room shared the 2 oldest senators in history.

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@GamecockBourbon @BobbyWilson1004 I was teaching middle school civics (in Florida) and talking about incumbents being re-elected at 95% rates. Since I’m from SC, I referenced old Strom. There was another teacher in the room who said “that’s nothing.” She was from WV (Byrd).

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@LarryBirdDaily Bird. Can’t be Jordan, he never saw a game 7.

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@hpenatzer In grad school in the late 80s, I made the mistake of taking European Historiography and Directed Readings in Medieval History the same semester. Wound up being about 1000 tough pages a week, plus 2 papers. Pulled all-nighters two nights a week all term… but I was much younger

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@JeffBarnes52 It’s worth noting that most people won’t have any institutional memory. The AD who “doesnt treat team X fairly” may have brought that program back from the dead while your child was in middle school, or started it on a shoestring. POV matters.

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@BamaBass Seriously, the best part of this is the 187.5. Here’s some dude actually NOT lying about his bench, paying for a pair of 1.25’s so he can keep getting better (never been to a gym that had any, mine live in my bag). I swear, EVERY guy rounds up bench and rounds down his mile.