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Post by Brutus Buckeye on Dec 31, 2023 13:43:49 GMT -5
Goree to the PVF?
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Post by thebaytocsulb on Dec 31, 2023 14:12:28 GMT -5
OMG this is so bad. Like another poster has said, he's lucky some of the dads haven't paid him a visit.
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Post by Brutus Buckeye on Dec 31, 2023 14:44:50 GMT -5
Chris gave himself the additional title of Director of International Recruiting on the Idaho website. Sounds like there’s plenty of blame to go around for the failures. lol Well from his perspective, he trusted someone and she brought him what he probably thinks are wimps and crybabies, so I'd take a bigger role in recruiting to my program too, hopefully leave more of the on court training and development to the staff since it seems most of the players don't respond to his methods, but on the way to 1-27 I think any head coach would have to get involved. But instead of waiting until the end of the season and asking those who don't fit to go portal shopping, he apparently spent most days unrecruiting them, trying to get them to leave or harm themselves to get the scholarship back and take another swing? Maybe I'm being too generous. Maybe he's just a jerk. He bemoaned that they were "built like linebackers" though, which would be kind of an unusual way to get after them for being wimps and crybabies.
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Post by bayarea on Dec 31, 2023 17:44:22 GMT -5
On the Idaho instagram page, he's shown in the official team photo, enthroned front and center, surrounded by his team, with the assistants out on the ends. That's quite a look. http://instagram.com/p/C1aWldPSHO7
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Post by kiyoat on Jan 2, 2024 11:38:04 GMT -5
If you go down the former Long Beach State assistant coaching road...you'll find...more of the same and some...worse. So much more to tell... I assume you are talking about Brian Gimmillaro's coaching tree? since nobody likes to say or type that name out loud, apparently. I don't have any professional ties to this sport, so I'm not concerned with any blowback (even with the anonymity of this medium). I don't understand how something like this can be somewhat well-known in the VB community, and yet nobody is willing to publicly call out a legendary coach for fostering a malicious coaching tree like this (if what you say is true). Reminds me of the difficulty in anyone acknowledging Joe Paterno's complicit role in the Sandusky situation. The "coaching fraternity" model is broken as it relates to protecting players IMHO. How many student-athletes have sustained physical and emotional abuse over the years from this coaching tree, while people stay silent? Unreal. At least the portal has allowed some players to escape abusive situations. What about the pre-portal players that were trapped? SMH
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Post by colonial2415 on Jan 2, 2024 19:42:29 GMT -5
If you go down the former Long Beach State assistant coaching road...you'll find...more of the same and some...worse. So much more to tell... I assume you are talking about Brian Gimmillaro's coaching tree? since nobody likes to say or type that name out loud, apparently. I don't have any professional ties to this sport, so I'm not concerned with any blowback (even with the anonymity of this medium). I don't understand how something like this can be somewhat well-known in the VB community, and yet nobody is willing to publicly call out a legendary coach for fostering a malicious coaching tree like this (if what you say is true). Reminds me of the difficulty in anyone acknowledging Joe Paterno's complicit role in the Sandusky situation. The "coaching fraternity" model is broken as it relates to protecting players IMHO. How many student-athletes have sustained physical and emotional abuse over the years from this coaching tree, while people stay silent? Unreal. At least the portal has allowed some players to escape abusive situations. What about the pre-portal players that were trapped? SMH So the Gimmillaro coaching tree has a history of abusing players? Who else is been known to do this? I seriously don’t know.
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Post by allballs on Jan 2, 2024 19:50:09 GMT -5
OMG this is so bad. Like another poster has said, he's lucky some of the dads haven't paid him a visit. This was indeed very bad and very difficult to read. I really am surprised that he hasn’t been Shrek’ed and in a swamp somewhere.
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Post by beachgrad on Jan 2, 2024 20:23:43 GMT -5
I assume you are talking about Brian Gimmillaro's coaching tree? since nobody likes to say or type that name out loud, apparently. I don't have any professional ties to this sport, so I'm not concerned with any blowback (even with the anonymity of this medium). I don't understand how something like this can be somewhat well-known in the VB community, and yet nobody is willing to publicly call out a legendary coach for fostering a malicious coaching tree like this (if what you say is true). Reminds me of the difficulty in anyone acknowledging Joe Paterno's complicit role in the Sandusky situation. The "coaching fraternity" model is broken as it relates to protecting players IMHO. How many student-athletes have sustained physical and emotional abuse over the years from this coaching tree, while people stay silent? Unreal. At least the portal has allowed some players to escape abusive situations. What about the pre-portal players that were trapped? SMH So the Gimmillaro coaching tree has a history of abusing players? Who else is been known to do this? I seriously don’t know. Crazy talk, if you coach long enough and have dozens of assistants work under you there will probably be a bad apple among them. Gimmillaro coached for 30 years and mentored great assistances with two of the best at Oregon right now.
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Post by kiyoat on Jan 2, 2024 21:10:48 GMT -5
So the Gimmillaro coaching tree has a history of abusing players? Who else is been known to do this? I seriously don’t know. Crazy talk, if you coach long enough and have dozens of assistants work under you there will probably be a bad apple among them. Gimmillaro coached for 30 years and mentored great assistances with two of the best at Oregon right now. I don’t have any inside information on it. Just frustrated that there appears to be more to this story, as some are hinting at, and yet nobody has the balls to just say what they know. Like some have said that Gonzales was not a surprise…. Well he sure as hell was a surprise to those players and their families! %*$#ty coaches need to stop being protected by the discretion of other coaches. That’s all I’m saying. And if someone is hinting at knowing more, then either come out with it or keep it to yourself.
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Post by dizzydean on Jan 2, 2024 21:52:07 GMT -5
So the Gimmillaro coaching tree has a history of abusing players? Who else is been known to do this? I seriously don’t know. Crazy talk, if you coach long enough and have dozens of assistants work under you there will probably be a bad apple among them. Gimmillaro coached for 30 years and mentored great assistances with two of the best at Oregon right now. He also mentored people to coach with disdain for their players.
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Post by volleyaudience on Jan 2, 2024 22:44:57 GMT -5
If 15 jobs in 21 years is not a record, I'd like to see who all tops it.
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Post by odinaka on Jan 3, 2024 12:07:47 GMT -5
Ahen at American University is lowkey same as this coach. Pretty soon it’s going to blow up in their faces if they continue to disregard players’ complaints about his behavior and out of control “tough coaching” style.
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Post by bayarea on Jan 3, 2024 13:36:15 GMT -5
I'm hopeful that the volleyball community doesn't let this just drop and fade away. If it stays in the public eye, the Idaho AD should be eventually compelled to let him go. (Thinking of some recent Ivy League presidential resignations brought about by continued publicity and pressure.) These allegations against all of the mentioned coaches should not be allowed to be swept under the rug again...
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Post by hangonsloopy on Jan 3, 2024 13:44:37 GMT -5
Ahen at American University is lowkey same as this coach. Pretty soon it’s going to blow up in their faces if they continue to disregard players’ complaints about his behavior and out of control “tough coaching” style. Have the players at American voiced concerns and were ignored?
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Post by odinaka on Jan 3, 2024 13:58:54 GMT -5
Ahen at American University is lowkey same as this coach. Pretty soon it’s going to blow up in their faces if they continue to disregard players’ complaints about his behavior and out of control “tough coaching” style. Have the players at American voiced concerns and were ignored? They have and nothing was done.
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