Playing Colvin - Mac's biggest mistake
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The players just took a vote.
It's unanimous.
No more running in practice...makes 'em tired.
I guess Mac's hands are tied. It was unanimous
Here's the thing that a lot of you guys are missing.
When Mac made the comment that was so strong and so principled, he did it to stroke his own ego. He did it to make himself appear above the fray. The words were so clear and so concise that there was no room for interpretation one way or the other. Mac means business.
He was playing into the now obvious BS that he does things "the right way", which was nothing more than a self-serving ego stroke. Nothing more than portraying yourself the way you want to be seen. He was trying to buy himself some good will and give us something to take pride in with the basketball team, and up and until now, many of you have fallen for it.
Now, when the there's an opportunity to actually live your noble words, you turn tail and claim to have had no other choice...team voted.
Actions speak louder than words and we have ourselves a coward and hypocrite as a coach.
Oh yeah, he doesn't win either.
When Mac made the comment that was so strong and so principled, he did it to stroke his own ego. He did it to make himself appear above the fray. The words were so clear and so concise that there was no room for interpretation one way or the other. Mac means business.
He was playing into the now obvious BS that he does things "the right way", which was nothing more than a self-serving ego stroke. Nothing more than portraying yourself the way you want to be seen. He was trying to buy himself some good will and give us something to take pride in with the basketball team, and up and until now, many of you have fallen for it.
Now, when the there's an opportunity to actually live your noble words, you turn tail and claim to have had no other choice...team voted.
Actions speak louder than words and we have ourselves a coward and hypocrite as a coach.
Oh yeah, he doesn't win either.
So what was Mac supposed to do? Should he have gone to Palo or Oliver and tell them he is sorry but they were going to have to give up their redshirt year to play in four games? Would that have been the right thing to do?
I guess I'm not overly upset about the team vote thing. From all accounts, what Colvin did to warrant the suspension was against his teammates. If they could forgive him and feel like he learned his lesson then maybe he has.
I just haven't heard too many people giving out other options. We need more than 3 guards for this stretch of games until February. The only other option was the two redshirting walkons. Are you all saying that you want to take away a year of elligability from them in order to make a point to Colvin?
I guess I'm not overly upset about the team vote thing. From all accounts, what Colvin did to warrant the suspension was against his teammates. If they could forgive him and feel like he learned his lesson then maybe he has.
I just haven't heard too many people giving out other options. We need more than 3 guards for this stretch of games until February. The only other option was the two redshirting walkons. Are you all saying that you want to take away a year of elligability from them in order to make a point to Colvin?
Amen! Mac is not a bad guy, he may not be the coach we all hoped for, but I felt after the first week of Colvin's suspension he would be back earlier. Mac was asked how Chris was responding to the suspension and Mac said that he was responding better than expected. My hope is that Chris got the message and Mac allowed him to be 'let off early for good behavior'. Chris' punishment was hurting the team more than benefitting Chris. If he made the improvement and the teammates that were disrespected felt the change had been made I see no issue with him coming back.
All this said, I would never want a win over losing ethics, but I don't know the whole story and I doubt ANY of you do either. Mac had no chance of pleasing most on this board so I will give you guys the same respect you show Mac, none.
Professional coaches know how to balance this. Maybe he should just concentrate on helping young people somewhere else. We have more talent on this team than Tech has on theirs, tell me who the better coach last night was.
That is why I am not overly upset about this, because I do not know exactly what happened and I will give McD the benefit of the doubt. My only problem is how this is starting to be perceived, which I fully expected.
You cant stand in front of the media and sound like you are hard and that you care more about building character than winning games, than 2 weeks later go back on your word, and not expect to be lashed by people the way McD is now.
The only comparison I make is that ISU could have desperately used Mike Taylor 3 seasons ago. If McD would have gone to the players and asked for their opinion, I just about guarantee it would have been unanimous to bring him back.
McCarney was very hard on his punishments early in his career, and started to loosen up as his career went on when he was getting somewhat desperate for wins. I fear we are starting to see the same thing here.
I expected Mac to act like the adult and put integrity before winning, or losing as the case may be.
Play with what you have. Keep your integrity...still lose.
Pretty simple, really.
And for you to say that Colvin's actions were against the team, so they should get to decide...well, that's just beyond silly.
Well, we could go back to Morgan. Then we knew that the players were running things. Morgan just played Playstation with them and let Stinson run the team.
So you are okay with playing just three guards these next couple of weeks? I might side with you if we had some walk-ons that weren't redshirting, but we don't have anyone else right now. Who cares how much harm it would to do Garrett, Christopherson, and Buckley to have to log such minutes. I guess it must be easier to coach from your couch when you don't have to worry about your players.
Well, I'll take 2 out of 3 winning seasons with postseason play (remember that?) as opposed to ZERO for four any day.
Yeah, the guys who have done nothing wrong would absolutely HATE that playing time.
Solid argument.
I have no dog in this fight, but I will say that even Morgan's final year yielded a better overall record than anything yet under McD.
Uh, yes they did. We had winning records in all 3 years under Morgan. This stuff isn't that hard to look up.
Morgan came in with a program that was in much better shape, and tore it apart. McDermott was left with Morgan's mess.
