Woefle can't coach his way out of a wet paper bag. I'm not the only one who shares my opinion. I have a couple buddies who are assistant coaches at different schools who play North and they basically say the same thing. North looks no different than when Jim Jones and his outdated system was coaching there.
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HoopMaster
The Varsity Level
I just Spit coke on my monitor reading that doing my best Charles Barkley.....
wouldnt it be turrible? or do I have my charlesspeak wrong?
Eleven
The Wade Level
And I think both players have the basketball IQ to handle it.
I've always thought that Anderson had a head for the game... just understood it... especially on D.
Actually thanks for that, you bring up a pretty good point. My coaching experience includes 1 4th grade team, 2 5th grade teams, and currently a 6th grade team at the B&G Club, actually we have our second tourney game tonight. I am also a head track coach for grades 4th through 8th in this county. So not only do my fair share of giving back to this community, I think that I have the ability to do a wide range of coaching...
I don't have a problem with Coach Woelfle at all, actually would go out of my way to say hello to him if I saw him. I am just saying that what he got out of this year's team was less than impressive and that's just fact of the matter. Any good coach would have no problem admitting something like that. I think Coach Woelfle would agree that under no circumstances should that Terre Haute North team had lost to that Martinsville team.
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I don't know how his players are off the court. I am really good friends with a parent of a basketball player who played a lot this year and they were not real happy with some of the promises he made to players and didn't back it up. However, I have coached basketball and scouted for teams. (I'm not pretending to be an expert and hell, Woefles probably a better coach than me). My wife is currently a coach and coached several years at the high school level and we have made a lot of coaching friends and some if them have the same feelings on Woefles ability that I do.
Also, I've had some sideline coaches that sometimes knew what they were talking about! LOL
Let's get back on the topic here... Justin. If you want to discuss Coach Woefle as a coach, feel free to create a thread in the Pub. Bottom line here is I hope State gets Gant because he is probably the best player to come out of Terre Haute in some time. You can't lose those guys and we need, need, NEED bigs.
Just a quick update... Justin is up to 8 offers now. In addition to ISU, he has offers from Bradley, Iowa, Evansville, Southern Illinois, St. Louis, Miami (OH), Rice and William & Mary. He's also got some bigger schools requesting film and transcripts.
Sounds like the interest is picking up on him again. He was a hot commodity about a year ago... then kind of fell off the radar of some of the programs that were chasing him.
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Seems like if he wanted to go to State he would have accepted already. I'm not holding my breath. All I care is that we get some good players including a good big.
Eleven
The Wade Level
Good thing Tunnel didn't.
The problem with that is that if the big schools aren't "sure" you might end up sitting on the bench. I don't think I'd want to go where I was on their C list.
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Put yourself in the shoes of a high school athlete and that's not really the case. You don't look at it like that, you see it as an opportunity to play for one of the best programs in the country and you don't consider yourself a C player or anything to that effect. You go in with the attitude that you are good enough to play on this team and are going to earn a spot.
If you are a kid like me in Track (yes different) but had a pretty good high school career by state standards and don't even get a look from the IU's and PU's of the world then every time you can make them pay (they don't care, but you care) then you make emm pay. Make sure that they at the very least remember your name and they go home at night thinking man I feel like this kid has been at Indiana State forever, when is he going to graduate?
Those bigger schools are even appealing to guys like myself who love Terre Haute and Indiana State. Hell Indiana State didn't even offer me money, again track is different. But I had to prove to my own school that I belonged, talk about running with a chip on your shoulder.
I've heard the opposite so I guess we'll see.
That said, after having watched absolutely terrible low post basketball, I don't know how you can not be interested in a kid that is sitting in your back yard, almost has double digit offers with several big programs from the Big 10, ACC and Pac 10 interested and just finished up the season 3rd in scoring in the most competitive high school hoops conference in Indiana.
SycamoreBlue3209
The Newsom Level
Just one thing about Gant's team you should know is, DEFENSE. No matter what you say about North's team this year (them losing early in the state tournament and not scoring a ton of points) they played defense hard every game and that is a very good quality of their program because we know many teams do not worry about this part of their game. Also, I don't see how you can say his team could not throw a post feed to him because he touched the ball in the post nearly every possesion. Gant is a big time player and he is only going to get bigger and stronger. Therefore, we need him!