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(05-05-2021 01:52 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  

(05-05-2021 01:06 PM)CliftonAve Wrote:  

(05-05-2021 12:59 PM)Cat-Man Wrote:  I'd be interested to hear from some former players in the Huggins era, to see how much of this stuff happened back then. Bob was known for his tough practices, berating his guys, quick benching guys for making mistakes, etc. I'm not comparing the 2 coaches. It's night and day. Huggs guys would walk through a wall for him as opposed to Brannen's guys who led a mutiny. I'd just be interested to hear what kind of the same stuff was acceptable then, as opposed to now in the era of soft kids, safe spaces and social media.

Side note, I watched the 30 for 30 on Bob Knight just recently, and it's crazy how similar the stuff Knight did in that documentary compared to the stuff stated in that link posted about Brannen. (Aside from choking players)

Times have changed. I am willing to bet Huggs doesn’t even run his players as hard today as he did in the 1990s. Moreover, the bigger issue IMHO is the retaliation against the kids and trainers who went to the AD.

Yeah.

One big thing that has changed is water breaks. Coaches used to see water breaks as weakness. But that mentality changed big-time somewhere around the early 00s.

That's why it dumbfounds me to see this quote in those documents, “Brannen does not want the guys getting water during rest. Or getting very little. He states that it is a fight with sports medicine, regarding water allowed.”

Was thinking about that today. Back in the late 80s my FB coach gave us one water break per practice, and the only time we were allowed to take off our helmets was when we got that water break. Some of this practices were over three hours long. We also took salt tablets before each practice.