Wait.. so being the #1 seed in the conference, having the league MVP, and making it to the Western Conference Final was not enough to call it a “successful” season? Interesting. @_ChardonnayPapi@tnrwtsn@ExKuseMe
READ | The regular season was historic.
The postseason? Another nightmare.
Southern Miss’ shocking 0-2 exit raises the same question that continues to follow the program: When will they finally break through in June?
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Bottom of the 9th, 2 outs, down by 3, down to your final strike … GRAND SLAM‼️
Every baseball kid’s dream in the backyard growing up. @SouthernMissBSB's Drey Barrett just lived it 👏
Don’t put Scheyer in any list as a top coach in CBB. At some point nobody cares how you’re the fastest coach to ___ wins or how many ACC championships you win. It’s Duke and the last two teams have we been expected to play for &win national championships and choked away big leads
About 4 hours post-game now and I’m still not okay.
Don’t talk to me tomorrow.
No “Coach, I know you saw-“
Don’t even look at me and smirk.
I know. Two years in a row with this bs.
BUT even on the wrong side of it, man… what a moment!!
“Culture has to be player-driven”
There’s lots to love about the contents of this short snippet from the brilliant Coach Charles Huff. The head football (American) coach of Southern Mississippi has a wonderful definition culture: how we act, interact, and react.
Catchy!
Borrowed from one of his mentors (the great Shaka Smart), what makes it brilliant is its lean towards embodiment - action and enaction, rather than just words and concepts.
Now, it’s easy to take a snippet from someone and critique what’s been said. So please excuse me and give me permission to respectfully extend Coach Huff’s insistence that culture isn’t culture if it’s not player-driven.
Culture is both player and coach driven. It simply has to be! Let me explain:
Culture is in every word, every behaviour, every action, in every room…in fact, it’s in every nook and cranny. It’s out on the training field, it’s in team meetings, it’s in coach meetings, it’s in session design, and it’s in teaching and coaching practice.
Let me emphasise - in sport, culture includes session design and coach practice. It has to, because every activity in every session, and every coach instruction, every question, and every suggestion is embedded into the memory players have of their experiences every day. And that’s culture…it’s everything that we all say and do!
Culture is absolutely player responsibility. But it has to be both player and coach-driven. There is no other way…and I’m fairly confident the very brilliant Coach Huff would agree with me.