ILL in IA
- Iowa City
Can we please stop bringing Thibodeau name up. Please
Groce/Whitman Press Conference
ChiCityHoops34
- DeKalb IL
I really hate the "we all made mistakes at that age/ we all were young and dumb once" reasoning when talking about something as serious as a couple of these players are accused of.
Getting way too drunk and throwing up in the dorms is being young and dumb, can't say the same for domestic violence.
Again, I'm not presuming guilt over innocence, just feel that the comments aren't appropriate with the severity of some of these claims.
Getting way too drunk and throwing up in the dorms is being young and dumb, can't say the same for domestic violence.
Again, I'm not presuming guilt over innocence, just feel that the comments aren't appropriate with the severity of some of these claims.
IlliniDent
- Chicago, IL
You honestly thought this would be a firing press conference? Really? It was obvious it was going to be a public backing of Groce and how we will take everything seriously.
I think Werner is the best reporter on the Illinois beat, largely for his general success in doing what I'm asking here - act as his reader's representative in reporting on events like this one.
More substance would be something novel for this basketball program, which is chock full of words and platitudes. if I never hear TnT again, that'd be fine with me.
ivwilsoniv
- Aurora, IL
If Al Davis didn't copyright "Just Win Baby", lets go with that.
midastouch11
- New York, New York
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[FONT="]Kyle Tucker @KyleTucker_CJ March 17 [/FONT]
[FONT="]Just realized former Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau is sitting behind Brad Calipari and UK's bench, next to Worldwide Wes here in Iowa.[/FONT]
Seriously?
Probably some but I think it's simpler than that. If Groce is your guy, then you have to back him 100%, until the very day that he isn't. Could be years, could be months, could be days. The minute you stop vocally backing your own coach, you immediately hurt recruiting. This was necessary with so much speculation in the public.
BlindLoyalty
- FartNoiseMotivation
That went very poorly. Whitman and Groce both presented a basketball program and athletic department that is quite tone-deaf.
BananaShampoo
Captain 'Paign
- Phoenix, AZ
At least JW reaffirmed his confidence in Groce, which is more than we got with previous AD's. We at least know what to expect going into next year. I honestly think this was the right move to make and (minus the off-court incidents) is pretty much what I expected a year ago to happen when we knew a couple of our starting players were going to be missing the season - aka a mediocre at best season where we'd miss the tourney but many would be calling for Groce's firing despite the injury factor being a huge part of why this season was a lost cause, topped by the start of a good to great 2017 class. Who REALLY thought Groce wouldn't get a pass for this year with all the ridiculous bad luck that befell his team and a 2017 class that could be make-or-break?
If this is really what the conference is, then it pretty obviously for recruitment purposes.
Maybe to people that wanted a staff change or Groce gone. I think it went as ideal as it could have gone from a PR standpoint. People expecting some real answers were fooling themselves from the get-go.
Tone deaf about what?
ILL in IA
- Iowa City
You know, acknowledging the problem, discussing it to the legal abilities they are allowed, having some plans in place to do the best they can to make sure it wont happen again. That was tone deaf right?
A question that I thought Werner should ask to JG was, how he (JG) felt about the season, about the apparent lack of intensity in many games, and while we all saw individuals improve, what the coach thought was the reason it took until February for these individuals to come together as a team... After all, individual stats aside, this is a TEAM sport...