Pat Knight rips his team in epic postgame rant

#26
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zjcvols said:
And we can blame your generation for being sorry ass parents. Why are the kids like that? Because of the parents.

I love it. "Oh, this generation is horrible, blah, blah, blah." How about we have some dads actually show up, moms actually love their kids, and parents take responsibility for their kids.

Don't just blame us for all the problems of the world.
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lmao
 
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Brian McCat said:
Not really. What kind of loser coach publicly accuses his kids of drug use without having dealt with it behind closed doors? A REAL coach would have dismissed his players privately for "a violation of team rules." But instead he takes the coward's way and exposes the problem publicly rather than deal with it as it should be.
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Agreed. I'm much more for setting examples by removing players, not publicly lashing out.

That being said, I also don't believe in athletic scholarships being solely academic and character performance driven. They get the scholarships to be good at sports, not for barely squeeking through a general communications course where you get A's for complete sentences. After the Arkansas punt return, I would have informed a few players that their college football playing days are over and to be looking for college funding elsewhere next semester.

I suppose a little off topic, but I would have removed these players and played with guys who wanted to win, be it walk-ons if I had to. Not do a stupid media rant.
 
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Brian McCat said:
Not really. What kind of loser coach publicly accuses his kids of drug use without having dealt with it behind closed doors? A REAL coach would have dismissed his players privately for "a violation of team rules." But instead he takes the coward's way and exposes the problem publicly rather than deal with it as it should be.
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Bleeding heart, allow the kids to save face, poor pitiful players blah blah blah. A pothead is gonna be a pothead, or whatever they did. Knight was right in what he said. Senior leadership is weak.
 
#29
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TXA&M07 said:
Bleeding heart, allow the kids to save face, poor pitiful players blah blah blah. A pothead is gonna be a pothead, or whatever they did. Knight was right in what he said. Senior leadership is weak.
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Then kick him off the team, instead of calling him a pothead in the media and then letting him stay on the team. That just looks bad.
 
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Maybe he already did. Maybe it was a reference to earlier in the year. Maybe he was pointing out, and/or emphasizing the fact that these guys have stacked the deck against themselves due to their immaturity on and off the court. Maybe it was an example that was being used to illustrate the magnitude of the issues he's faced with.

Maybe, juuuuuust maybe, everything he said about them was common knowledge amongst the AD and that we as, Lamar basketball avid followers, would have already been aware of? I know I follow the sh!t outta some Lamar Athletics!
 
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zjcvols said:
And we can blame your generation for being sorry ass parents. Why are the kids like that? Because of the parents.

I love it. "Oh, this generation is horrible, blah, blah, blah." How about we have some dads actually show up, moms actually love their kids, and parents take responsibility for their kids.

Don't just blame us for all the problems of the world.
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Perfect example of what's wrong with your generation - blame someone else :)
 
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#34
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Good for Pat Knight. He said what needed to be said and what too many coaches are afraid to say to their coddled players.
 
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Brian McCat said:
There's constructive criticism, then there's what Knight did.

I don't care if he mentioned being undisciplined, poor leadership, etc.

But he drops in an accusation of drug use? wtf?
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I wouldnt doubt it, hell drug use was going on at a "Christian" school at TCU among players. I've heard stories from players that I personally know that played in the 80's and on back that it was common and damn near acceptable for coaches to get physical in the lockeroom or practice field. Can't do that today, law suit city!!
 
#39
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Totally inappropriate. Not acceptable for players and not acceptable for coaches. I'm for keeping stuff in house.
 
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Coach Grizz said:
I wouldnt doubt it, hell drug use was going on at a "Christian" school at TCU among players. I've heard stories from players that I personally know that played in the 80's and on back that it was common and damn near acceptable for coaches to get physical in the lockeroom or practice field. Can't do that today, law suit city!!
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Yeah for violence against people!!!!!
 
#43
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Pat Knight is a coward and a hypocrite.

Let's show some stats shall we?

The top five players for Lamar in minutes per game? All seniors.

Top four scorers? All seniors

These seniors won 11 games last year and have a chance to win 20 and an NCAA tourney bid.

If Pat Knight was a real disciplinarian, he would have kicked these guys off the team, right? Nope, instead he uses them for his own good to help him keep his job, then throws them under the bus when they have a bad loss.

They are first in the conference. I'm sure Pat Knight will kick these players off the team for their terrible leadership qualities and overall bad attitude with an NCAA tourney bid on the line, right?

What a ****in joke. Real man Pat Knight.
 
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zjcvols said:
Yup. Nothing live violating privacy and accusing them of being drugies and ruining their public perception. YEAH!!!
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Dude I'm gonna tell you something, if I had a kid and a coach Crawled off in his ass.... I'm not gonna coddle him, I'm gonna ask him WTF he did, get his ass and head wired together and fix it!! I had a relative who was a coach at a small school and the dad yelled down to my relative "get on'em coach!! If you don't I'll get on you!!" But I know kids are different, one kid you can talk easy to correct him and the other kid you gotta break your foot off in his ass to get him motivated.
 
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Coach Grizz said:
Dude I'm gonna tell you something, if I had a kid and a coach Crawled off in his ass.... I'm not gonna coddle him, I'm gonna ask him WTF he did, get his ass and head wired together and fix it!! I had a relative who was a coach at a small school and the dad yelled down to my relative "get on'em coach!! If you don't I'll get on you!!" But I know kids are different, one kid you can talk easy to correct him and the other kid you gotta break your foot off in his ass to get him motivated.
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Sure, there is a time and place.

Accusing kids of being druggies after a press conference when they are your four best scorers isn't the time.
 
#47
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Coach Grizz said:
He might know something we don't, in house remember?
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Obviously it's not so much an issue where he had no problems with them getting all the minutes and winning 9 plus games from last year, right?
 
#48
#48
Lets just say this generation is clueless and their kids are gonna be worse. Welcome to the downfall. Although I say is started to the prior gen. That would be mine. Luckily I had 2 good ones to carry on.
 
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Lamar actually won 6 in a row to get into the NCAA tournament. Knight said after the game "I threw them under the bus, and I was the one driving it." Also gave the players credit for responding and playing well. I guess public shaming works sometimes.
 
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