(04-05-2021 02:31 PM)pesik Wrote:  

(04-05-2021 02:07 PM)JFlight21 Wrote:  How is he an innocent man? The players hated him. He's an egotistical prick that disparaged players behind their backs and to recruits, pitted players against each other in the locker room, etc. How disconnected can you be from your players to not understood your entire freshman class is going to transfer once the season ends?

Maybe you're right and there is nothing for cause to fire him, but if Brannen wasn't a complete ******* we would not be in this situation. If he was merely a bad basketball coach, we wouldn't be in this situation. He created an untenable environment for his players and that's why we are here today. UC is doing what any university would do when they don't have money to pay the full buyout. Look at what UConn did to Ollie and he won them a national title. All we got was a multitude of terrible losses and two lost seasons of recruiting. Hopefully this is resolved by the weekend but I have my doubts...

im the most pro player person ever.. i always side with the player in 97% of the time in debates involving players where empathy is involved...
this isnt a player vs coach situation... its a coach vs a school thing, where a school is trying to weasel out of paying a man at all cost even if it means destroying his reputation ..

if UC had the money theyd have just fired him, and everyone would have moved on no matter the situation.... the sole issue is that UC lacks the funds

i have personally said before the season ended that their might be a culture issues at UC that brannen is fostering..if you wanted to fire him for the culture he built, thats fine, but pay him his buyout... it was on UC to research this before they hired him, you both agreed to terms

the biggest allegation floating around about brannen is that the medical staff wanted to step in to stop practice but were scared...and some UC fans were outraged.. to me thats the same as people surprised coaches yell at players aggressively.. mainly because theyve only watch the game from a distance... that claim could be made for every team in history.. coaches push players in practice more than the should, its a thing... in "last chance u basketball" (east la jc), and "why not us" (nccu) there are scenes where the coaches kept making them run, and players desperately wanted to quit almost collapsing because they couldn't take it, but forced to finish the suicides anyways (the coaches in both shows are extremely loved, good people)

pay the man and move on....anything else is wrong...shouldn't have signed the contract

To your final point on the Last Chance U coaches - that absolutely exists. Heck, Cronin and Huggins were hardass coaches but their players loved him.

Brannen just doesn't appear to be a likeable guy and bordering on being socially inept. That's why he can't get away with the over the top practices. He just can't connect with his players and that would be a detriment to UC's program now and into the future. I'm almost glad this all is coming to a head now but the longer this drags out the worse the inherited situation will be for the next coach.