02-17-2010, 02:30 PM
There's few people in the world of A-Sun basketball that really get under my skin. The first is Josh Slater. This is for two reasons... He's a douche and he's a lot better at basketball than his momma's boy haircut makes him out to be.
The second is Murry Bartow. I know less of him than some of the people on this board (especially the ETSU posters), but my perception of him becomes worse by the day.
The guy is a complete arse. I've witnessed him get technical fouls for no legit reason at all. He's like an undisciplined freshman player that thinks he's hot stuff. An example is in the Mercer game the other day when he ended up getting a call in his favor only to ruin it by getting a T, and then giving Mercer a shot at two free throws AND possession. This makes for a great leader (sarcasm) for this team that in all honesty could probably have run circles around the other A-Sun teams for quiet a few years previous to this one. He's made comments and gestures to our fans at games before, and I'm sure we aren't the only floor that he's displayed that facet of unprofessionalism at. I also saw the news clip in which he trashed his own fans for leaving before the game before it was done when we played you on your home floor this year. Given, every coach desires fan support, but lashing out at your own? Yeah, that's going to put your fans behind you.
In addition, he just seems like an awful basketball coach. I've actually seen some good comments about him in certain press. I think he won A-Sun coach of the year in 06-07 or something like that for whatever that is worth, but I haven't seen anything good from him. I watched the Mercer game last Sunday, and I heard him in an interview talk about how he had several players riding the bench that had performed well earlier in the season when they played more, but he thinks that he owes it to his starting five to let them play more. By this reasoning, he rotates his team mainly between seven players when he could be making use of a deeper bench. This makes absolutely no sense.
So I know there's a lot of ETSU posters that can educate me. One, from those of you who loathe Murry Bartow as a coach, I would like to hear examples of his stupidity and general incompetence as a coach. And two, why does he still have a job?
Note: I fully support ETSU in keeping Bartow on as head coach, because I want to continue to see talented ETSU teams choke because of poor decision making.
The second is Murry Bartow. I know less of him than some of the people on this board (especially the ETSU posters), but my perception of him becomes worse by the day.
The guy is a complete arse. I've witnessed him get technical fouls for no legit reason at all. He's like an undisciplined freshman player that thinks he's hot stuff. An example is in the Mercer game the other day when he ended up getting a call in his favor only to ruin it by getting a T, and then giving Mercer a shot at two free throws AND possession. This makes for a great leader (sarcasm) for this team that in all honesty could probably have run circles around the other A-Sun teams for quiet a few years previous to this one. He's made comments and gestures to our fans at games before, and I'm sure we aren't the only floor that he's displayed that facet of unprofessionalism at. I also saw the news clip in which he trashed his own fans for leaving before the game before it was done when we played you on your home floor this year. Given, every coach desires fan support, but lashing out at your own? Yeah, that's going to put your fans behind you.
In addition, he just seems like an awful basketball coach. I've actually seen some good comments about him in certain press. I think he won A-Sun coach of the year in 06-07 or something like that for whatever that is worth, but I haven't seen anything good from him. I watched the Mercer game last Sunday, and I heard him in an interview talk about how he had several players riding the bench that had performed well earlier in the season when they played more, but he thinks that he owes it to his starting five to let them play more. By this reasoning, he rotates his team mainly between seven players when he could be making use of a deeper bench. This makes absolutely no sense.
So I know there's a lot of ETSU posters that can educate me. One, from those of you who loathe Murry Bartow as a coach, I would like to hear examples of his stupidity and general incompetence as a coach. And two, why does he still have a job?
Note: I fully support ETSU in keeping Bartow on as head coach, because I want to continue to see talented ETSU teams choke because of poor decision making.