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Username Post: Well stated        (Topic#21954)
Dr. V 
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10-17-18 11:28 AM - Post#262825    

A poster on the Penn board named Pandemonium posted a longer message in the long thread discussing the Jerome Allen scandal etc. I'm posting one of his paragraphs that contains a particularly well stated proposition that many of us often lose sight of:


It is easy to be critical of Jerome and Miller, but the truth is that being a head coach is just incredibly hard. All people have strengths and weaknesses, and the ability to create sustainable excellence depends up on a coach's executive skills. Those executive skills are only partially overlapping from those that make someone a great player or assistant. Great player management, assistant management, recruiting, scouting, player development, in-game coaching, PR, school administration management, etc. Assistants only need to be good at one or two of those things. Coaches need to be great at all of them or else recruit, empower, and retain people who fill in the gaps.

 
palestra38 
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Re: Well stated
10-17-18 11:30 AM - Post#262827    
    In response to Dr. V

That doesn't excuse criminal bribery.

 
Dr. V 
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10-17-18 11:39 AM - Post#262829    
    In response to palestra38

Of course, and I did NOT intend to suggest otherwise.

My point was to reprint Pandemonium's unusually well and succinctly stated point about how difficult is it to be a successful head coach and why.

 
AntiUngvar 
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10-17-18 10:49 PM - Post#262917    
    In response to Dr. V

Thank God for those former UPenn coaches & their uncanny ability to keep interest in Columbia men's basketball alive!


 
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