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(03-31-2017 09:25 AM)burden Wrote:  

(03-31-2017 08:11 AM)axeme Wrote:  Sometimes a coach stays too long and the message gets old. There are very, very few coaches who can go on indefinitely. The Coach Ks and Roy Williams and Mark Few and Huggins and Boeheim are very much exceptions.

He had a good run at Akron. Best they ever had by far. Never got over the hump like KSU, Ohio, Miami, Ball St. did at their peaks. But his legacy there will be consistency. Usually one of the best 3-4 teams in the conference over his tenure.

I agree but I never understood it. Any individual player only hears it for 4-5 years so why after 10-12 years does that set of players begin to rebel. Is it a variation of "tradition never graduates"? Something like "grumbling never graduates" or does the coach change how he delivers the message. Dictating it instead of explaining why? The exceptions you mention are so successful they are pretty much untouchable with players flocking to play for them. Dambrot wasn't that good.

My uneducated guess would be over time you get little problems and every year yes one group graduates but you still have 3 groups who was there and if that little problem was never dealt with then it might carry over and then it might grow by a tiny bit every year and over a long time you get this problem (maybe).