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[cincyguy13]

Originally Posted by TheRealMick

Bro coaches go other teams practices all time. Our secret scrimmages was glorified practice! Once again in high school we trained and practiced with other teams all time especially during off season. You telling me UC/nku didn’t have open gyms together?

Just seems like an odd thing to even bring up. No coach in America wants another team playing in their gym. Not one. No coach wants another coach building relationships with their current players. Not one. These aren’t red flags, maybe he just didn’t like mick. Maybe mick didn’t like him. Lot of people don’t like mick and it sounds like people don’t like John. These aren’t red flags. Just people that don’t like each.

He didn’t know he was getting the job at the time, not sure why he needed to build relationships with the players.

[cincyguy13]

Originally Posted by skyblade

All indications (from the post-game and Brannen radio show) seem to be that Brannen is going to double down. Brannen's opinion seems to be that the problems are because he hasn't installed his culture strongly enough. His given players too much leeway, he has let culture slide in favor of winning now.

Coaches (Brannen being no exception) tend to have big egos. He doesn't think he is the problem, the players are the problem. If he has made mistakes it's because he has been too lenient.

If it works and we turn things around great. If not, it probably burns things down quickly, which is also good as we don't want to keep a bad coach around longer than needed.

The rest of the season and early post-season will tell us a lot. There are a lot of indications that there are issues in the locker room. It's either players or Brannen, but there are definitely problems. Either Brannen fixes it, or there is an exodus and Brannen's coaching career here will come to a quick end.

He’s not going to say publicly that there are issues. He has to get recruits in here and guys to stay. We don’t know what he’s saying privately but I don’t think it’s be a great idea to say the sky is burning, then go try to convince guys to come here.

[cincyguy13]

This thing can be turned around. I don’t have a lot of faith, but it was a pretty open secret that Gregg Marshall was a maniac and he was able to bring in some pretty good recruits after 6 guys left. You can say Marshall is a way better coach, ok, but it was also clear there was a major issue there.

[skyblade]

Originally Posted by cincyguy13

This thing can be turned around. I don’t have a lot of faith, but it was a pretty open secret that Gregg Marshall was a maniac and he was able to bring in some pretty good recruits after 6 guys left. You can say Marshall is a way better coach, ok, but it was also clear there was a major issue there.

In college basketball winning trumps almost everything. Greg Marshall was a maniac who won games, so he got recruits. If Brannen starts winning like Greg Marshall, I doubt many people will complain/care about culture.

But, when you have a maniac coach, things are likely to turn ugly quickly when the winning stops.

[TheRealMick]

Originally Posted by cincyguy13

Just seems like an odd thing to even bring up. No coach in America wants another team playing in their gym. Not one. No coach wants another coach building relationships with their current players. Not one. These aren’t red flags, maybe he just didn’t like mick. Maybe mick didn’t like him. Lot of people don’t like mick and it sounds like people don’t like John. These aren’t red flags. Just people that don’t like each.

He didn’t know he was getting the job at the time, not sure why he needed to build relationships with the players.

Huh? You must didn’t play sports. All the college coaches get together all time IF they friends. If he didn’t want help UC it’s seem odd we helped him.

[TheRealMick]

Originally Posted by cincyguy13

He’s not going to say publicly that there are issues. He has to get recruits in here and guys to stay. We don’t know what he’s saying privately but I don’t think it’s be a great idea to say the sky is burning, then go try to convince guys to come here.

Lol can you imagine what he was saying privately about us practicing on his court?

[cincyguy13]

Originally Posted by TheRealMick

Huh? You must didn’t play sports. All the college coaches get together all time IF they friends. If he didn’t want help UC it’s seem odd we helped him.

Nope, never played a sport. Tell us what it’s like.

He didn’t want to help uc. Why should he? The people above him did because uc paid them to use their gym and scheduled future games that help their program. Once again, seems like an odd bone to pick, that he didn’t want another school to have home games in his gym. Just from a scheduling issue, I wouldn’t want it. Have to always check when you can practice in your own gym

[TheRealMick]

Originally Posted by cincyguy13

Nope, never played a sport. Tell us what it’s like.

He didn’t want to help uc. Why should he? The people above him did because uc paid them to use their gym and scheduled future games that help their program. Once again, seems like an odd bone to pick, that he didn’t want another school to have home games in his gym. Just from a scheduling issue, I wouldn’t want it. Have to always check when you can practice in your own gym

Smh I can see X having a problem but NKU? Like Justin said he was friends with X not UC