Meh, this is just typical media fodder these days. Has nothing to do with kids playing the game. Once the ball gets jumped up, everything else goes away and you can enjoy watching Duke basketball again.
Kyle filipowski
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The coaching staff dealt with a lot last season. Not Just Flip.
My dad said the worst part of coaching is dealing with parents. I think NIL made it far worse.
All of the coaching legends are just about out of college basketball. And I believe the younger ones (like Hurley) will always have one eye on the NBA. I couldn’t imagine having to recruit your own players every offseason.
Yup. And is only going to get worse. And you are seeing so much of it even at lower levels and with kids who will probably never play an inning, quarter, etc of collegiate sports. I wonder sometimes how many of the kids will quit before they can realize the benefits of their skills because of micro managing parents.
And big brothers apparently.
I remember when I was coaching youth baseball. Rec league, nothing travel-ball level or anything like that. The league was redrafted every two years after try-outs. Those coaches who had some integrity would warn fellow coaches that a player he may have coached earlier "comes with a dad." That was rec-league baseball. None of these kids had a realistic baseball stage bigger than high school.
And for the record. moms could be just as bad as dads.
But this goes back a long way. If Art Heyman's step-father hadn't gotten into a furious argument with Frank McGuire, Duke basketball history might have been much different. Bill Foster used to get regular phone calls from Joe Gminski telling him how he was misusing his son.
I'm a parent and know that comes with lots of stuff. But this kind of estrangement just breaks my heart. I found Filipowski to be a bright, articulate, engaging interview. But sometimes he looked like he was carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders, even in the context of a program that expects to win every time it takes the floor.
I guess we know why.
Jim well-stated. I coached hoops to 11-12 year olds many moons ago. I will never forget the nite a technical foul was called on our team. Not on me. A high strung dad in the bleachers of one of my players was whistled for it. Plenty of meddling parents too. Insisted on being at courtside during practing,and offering advice. I understood Norman Dale (Gene Hackman)in "Hoosiers." "Practice is closed to outsiders."
As for Flip,I hope everything works out. Its so ironic however he ended up in Utah. "Twilight Zone" stuff considering her devout Mormon faith and "grooming."
OFC
Utah is a beautiful state. But a strange state. Nearly half the population are Mormon, and the church wields a lot of power there. I am a big seperation of church and state guy, so I am not down with that.
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A number of years ago, I spent 2 weeks in Ogden Utah, visiting Salt Lake City while I was there. My impression was that the people were friendly and it was a beautiful and clean state (the part I saw). Sure you are aware that most people are religious and of course at the LDS center they try to convert you, but otherwise I had a good impression.
My dad had a friend from Queens who went there for work. Large Italian guy, very nice, Catholic. Did not have a good experience there and moved away. But thats just one story. Like My Cousin Vinny ha.
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