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Post by MTC on Apr 26, 2015 19:41:13 GMT -5
Maybe he is trying to tell you something Dot?
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Post by dorothymantooth on Apr 27, 2015 0:35:38 GMT -5
Maybe he is trying to tell you something Dot? I am from this point further allowing your non-sensical comments and total lack of credibility to stand for itself.
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Post by MTC on Apr 27, 2015 12:57:20 GMT -5
Thanks. I won!!!!!
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Post by dorothymantooth on Apr 27, 2015 14:06:30 GMT -5
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Post by bigfan on Apr 27, 2015 14:37:09 GMT -5
Russ your next job should be President of PSU.
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Post by MTC on Apr 27, 2015 15:12:09 GMT -5
Dot, that's even better, a win-win situation. Perhaps you should tell us when you are joking so we know how to take your comments.
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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 27, 2015 19:05:51 GMT -5
I respect Russ Rose -- from a distance -- because I don't know the man personally and have talked to him only once. But I'm also typical of someone who has only a distant "relationship" with someone. What I mean is, I have no connection with Penn State or Russ Rose or the state of Pennsylvania, so it's hard for me to care.
I do understand that people tend to give extra meaning to the words of someone who has won 7 championships vs. someone who has won none. We tend to listen to winners (and the whys and hows of their winning ways) and not losers. I mean, if some guy like Joe Blow from Poughkeepsie Tech who has never won a championship said the exact same things that Rose said in this article, no one would give a flying flip. (Of course, why would anyone want to interview Joe Blow?)
I'm not sure what my point is other than, perhaps, that I always roll my eyes when too much credit is given to coaches. I'm reminded of that famous quote, so famous that I've forgotten the exact words: "90% of good coaching is good recruiting." (Someone help me out here.) And there's more to it than that -- the resources available to the team, the assistant coaches, the trainers, etc.
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Post by dorothymantooth on Apr 27, 2015 21:15:46 GMT -5
I respect Russ Rose -- from a distance -- because I don't know the man personally and have talked to him only once. But I'm also typical of someone who has only a distant "relationship" with someone. What I mean is, I have no connection with Penn State or Russ Rose or the state of Pennsylvania, so it's hard for me to care. I do understand that people tend to give extra meaning to the words of someone who has won 7 championships vs. someone who has won none. We tend to listen to winners (and the whys and hows of their winning ways) and not losers. I mean, if some guy like Joe Blow from Poughkeepsie Tech who has never won a championship said the exact same things that Rose said in this article, no one would give a flying flip. (Of course, why would anyone want to interview Joe Blow?) I'm not sure what my point is other than, perhaps, that I always roll my eyes when too much credit is given to coaches. I'm reminded of that famous quote, so famous that I've forgotten the exact words: "90% of good coaching is good recruiting." (Someone help me out here.) And there's more to it than that -- the resources available to the team, the assistant coaches, the trainers, etc. Nobody would say he is getting too much credit more than he would.
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Post by Phaedrus on Apr 27, 2015 22:22:23 GMT -5
I respect Russ Rose -- from a distance -- because I don't know the man personally and have talked to him only once. But I'm also typical of someone who has only a distant "relationship" with someone. What I mean is, I have no connection with Penn State or Russ Rose or the state of Pennsylvania, so it's hard for me to care. I do understand that people tend to give extra meaning to the words of someone who has won 7 championships vs. someone who has won none. We tend to listen to winners (and the whys and hows of their winning ways) and not losers. I mean, if some guy like Joe Blow from Poughkeepsie Tech who has never won a championship said the exact same things that Rose said in this article, no one would give a flying flip. (Of course, why would anyone want to interview Joe Blow?) I'm not sure what my point is other than, perhaps, that I always roll my eyes when too much credit is given to coaches. I'm reminded of that famous quote, so famous that I've forgotten the exact words: "90% of good coaching is good recruiting." (Someone help me out here.) And there's more to it than that -- the resources available to the team, the assistant coaches, the trainers, etc. Nobody would say he is getting too much credit more than he would. Sorry, I had to parse that last sentence a couple of times. How about: He would be the most vocal about saying that he is getting too much credit.
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Post by MTC on Apr 28, 2015 0:48:51 GMT -5
Actually Russ Rose goes beyond that by saying the players deserve all the credit. I am always puzzled by people who don't accept that a coach's job description includes both attracting talented players and assistants and helping them develop those talents further. I can only stand in awe of any coach who has set records that probably will never be broken. Those kind of people don't think they did anything special but were just lucky. I always ask myself " what other coach in D-1 WVB do I think could coach a team to 109 consecutive wins and the answer always comes back - no one".
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Post by roger on Apr 29, 2015 7:50:46 GMT -5
All world I think that Russ would say "Why not I did it" The man does not think of himself as unusual just a man with a goal and the dedication to stick with it.
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