Stans stays in the SEC

[Coach34]

Never got the strength program bitch. under Stans we were usually a great rebounding team who played good defense.

Strength program makes bigger, stronger, faster...helps you to be in better shape and avoid injuries...it also teaches mental toughness

We had players that never got close to being the players they could have been with some harder work in the strength program. You look at them and see what they did- many of us look at them and see what they could have been. You cant have a team culture where the ones that want to work hard do- and the ones that dont are allowed to tell the strength coach they dont want to- and then Stands backs the player instead of the SC.

Stands did P90X with Sidney in an attempt to try and get him to just do something- instead of telling him to get his fatass in the weightroom and do what he is told or get gone. And that is just one of the last examples of things like that that went on over the years

[I seen it dawg]

Exactly. Name just 1 player in Stans' tenure that significantly changed his body while he was here. Spoiler: None did.

That's where you're wrong....Sidney got fatter

[War Machine Dawg]

That's where you're wrong....Sidney got fatter

Well played.

[TheRef]

Sidney had his own gravitational field by the time he left.

[shannondawg]

We got the same strength coach now? What happened? Ray kick him in the ass to make him do his job?

[drunkernhelldawg]

Disappointing that the thread has devolved to the same ol' shit. Play on, well or otherwise.

[mic]

We got the same strength coach now? What happened? Ray kick him in the ass to make him do his job?

RR is letting him do his job... And not letting the players dictate what they will and wont do.

[Coach34]

We got the same strength coach now? What happened? Ray kick him in the ass to make him do his job?

Rick Ray lets him do his job. If they dont want to do something, Ray tells them "tough shit, get your ass back in there and work"

Stands didnt let him do his job. If they didnt want to work, Stands would excuse them and tell the SC to not make them do it.

Big damn difference

[shannondawg]

Rick Ray lets him do his job. If they dont want to do something, Ray tells them "tough shit, get your ass back in there and work"

Stands didnt let him do his job. If they didnt want to work, Stands would excuse them and tell the SC to not make them do it.

Big damn difference

That sounds like you are getting just one side of the story...Always 2, always..

[Coach34]

That sounds like you are getting just one side of the story...Always 2, always..

ok- well mine comes from the SC...and I know he is alot happier now...when he says- "I'm allowed to do my job now"- I tend to believe him

[coastdoglover]

Why should we be shocked about anything you say negatively about Rick. Can you just simply shut up and move on with Rick Ray. Geez, you are one obsessed individual.

ok- well mine comes from the SC...and I know he is alot happier now...when he says- "I'm allowed to do my job now"- I tend to believe him

[Coach34]

Why should we be shocked about anything you say negatively about Rick.

Because:

A) There is negative stuff to say about Stands
B) The truth is the truth

[Dawg61]

Exactly. Name just 1 player in Stans' tenure that significantly changed his body while he was here. Spoiler: None did.

John Reik went from a newborn baby giraffe laying on the ground to developing his first miracle steps to slightly stand up before wobbling and falling back on his face when he attempted to run the floor. That's development.

[shannondawg]

Hey we agree on something, Of course he is happy, he got to stay.

[mcdawg]

You are right. You shouldn't have clicked -- and then posterized yourself.

None of the players you listed were considered elite players coming out of highschool. You even listed 3 different 3*s in your assessment. And you are seriously using Ravern Johnson to prop up your ideal of an elite player?

My point is that the players that ALWAYS carried Stansbury teams were the workhorses. The workhorses were the guys that felt like they had something to prove. He quit getting those at the end. Period -- end of story. It was completely over when he ran Phil Turner off.

So now you are saying that Jarvis, Dee, and Arnett were not elite players coming out of high school and our coaches developed 2 of them into NBA players? And Dee Bost is SO much better than any of our point guards that are on our team now - he must have developed. You cannot have it both ways - either they were good when they got here or developed. But, the initial debate was that we haven't had good players in many years - 2 of the 3 above play in the NBA. And, I mentioned Ravern and Barry because they could shoot - which nobody on our team can now.

All you try to do is win arguments and most of your debate is full of it. The bottom line in this argument is - we had good players in the past few years. See how long you have to wait to see another Jarvis or Arnett or even Bost. (Bost's replacement will playing against us on LSU's team.) Don't hold your breath waiting - never mind, please hold your breath so we don't have to read your posts anymore.

[thf24]

So now you are saying that Jarvis, Dee, and Arnett were not elite players coming out of high school and our coaches developed 2 of them into NBA players? And Dee Bost is SO much better than any of our point guards that are on our team now - he must have developed. You cannot have it both ways - either they were good when they got here or developed. But, the initial debate was that we haven't had good players in many years - 2 of the 3 above play in the NBA. And, I mentioned Ravern and Barry because they could shoot - which nobody on our team can now.

Jarvis got better because he had a ton of raw talent and was a self-motivated, hard worker. Same with Dee, despite the fact that he was a huge source of locker room cancer. No one can definitively say Stansbury didn't have a hand in their development, but when you look at players like Ravern who lacked that self-motivation and didn't get a whole lot better during his college career, you can't fault people for wondering. And Moultire was still very raw going into the NBA. It was becoming apparent in SEC play in 2012 when his production dropped that he still didn't have much of a low post game; he was pretty much a 6'11" slasher. Bost made him look real good with all those dishes on cuts and alley-oops, which as I said, the better SEC teams started recognizing and shutting down.

I'm not going to say Stansbury couldn't develop players, because no one can really know for sure, but there is undeniable evidence indicating the possibility he wasn't great at it.

[drunkernhelldawg]

Jarvis got better because he had a ton of raw talent and was a self-motivated, hard worker. Same with Dee, despite the fact that he was a huge source of locker room cancer. No one can definitively say Stansbury didn't have a hand in their development, but when you look at players like Ravern who lacked that self-motivation and didn't get a whole lot better during his college career, you can't fault people for wondering. And Moultire was still very raw going into the NBA. It was becoming apparent in SEC play in 2012 when his production dropped that he still didn't have much of a low post game; he was pretty much a 6'11" slasher. Bost made him look real good with all those dishes on cuts and alley-oops, which as I said, the better SEC teams started recognizing and shutting down.

I'm not going to say Stansbury couldn't develop players, because no one can really know for sure, but there is undeniable evidence indicating the possibility he wasn't great at it.

I don't know whether you've ever taught or coached. If you have, you will not argue with me when I say that nobody does anything worth a damn unless he or she is motivated. That's an ironclad rule that is never broken except by occasional accident.

[engie]

So now you are saying that Jarvis, Dee, and Arnett were not elite players coming out of high school and our coaches developed 2 of them into NBA players? And Dee Bost is SO much better than any of our point guards that are on our team now - he must have developed. You cannot have it both ways - either they were good when they got here or developed. But, the initial debate was that we haven't had good players in many years - 2 of the 3 above play in the NBA. And, I mentioned Ravern and Barry because they could shoot - which nobody on our team can now.

All you try to do is win arguments and most of your debate is full of it. The bottom line in this argument is - we had good players in the past few years. See how long you have to wait to see another Jarvis or Arnett or even Bost. (Bost's replacement will playing against us on LSU's team.) Don't hold your breath waiting - never mind, please hold your breath so we don't have to read your posts anymore.

How many years since we made the tournament with all these "good players"?

None of those players were elite recruits -- which is what the initial argument was about that you went full retard and misrepresented -- and have continued to straw man the entire situation.

Keep going with the full retard though...

[tcdog70]

If they were not elite recruits, then Stans did a hell of a jobs Coaching them up. Where as MSU under RS had a First team all Sec player several times. sometimes even two players on the First Team. I Believe He had the SeC Defensive player of the Year who set the all time record for blocked shots. Pretty damn skippy for not so elite talent.

[thf24]

I don't know whether you've ever taught or coached. If you have, you will not argue with me when I say that nobody does anything worth a damn unless he or she is motivated. That's an ironclad rule that is never broken except by occasional accident.

I won't argue with what you've said there, but I'd say that there are varying degrees and extents of motivation. Also, there's a difference between willingness to be motivated and self-motivation. Ravern Johnson was obviously motivated enough in high school to work and translate his talent into 40% 3-point shooting in college. Similarly, Renardo Sidney was motivated enough in his earlier years to develop a wide enough range of skills and ability to warrant being ranked as the #1 recruit in the country at one point. That motivation apparently ended when they got to college, as Ravern didn't get any bigger or stronger despite having the frame to do so and access to college training facilities, or work on an inside game that would have made him a lottery pick; and Sidney... no need to go there. Jarvis and Dee, on the other hand, continued to improve, expanded their games, and put themselves in a position to play at the next level. Why did the former two stagnate and the latter two flourish in the same program? Like I said in my last post, there's no way of knowing for sure, but it would appear to me that Jarvis and Dee had the self-motivation characteristic, while Ravern and Sidney required an external motivator and didn't have one. Sidney even said so much in an interview with the CL; something to the effect of he wished he'd had someone to push him and keep him in line after leaving high school. Maybe Stansbury was/is a great developer of players who are willing to put in the work without being pushed, but he doesn't know how to provide that motivation for the ones who don't have it on their own.