ISU, Men's Basketball Coach Greg Lansing Part Ways After 11 Seasons

[CoachShipp]

When a player comes to you for advise, as a coach, you must seperate any personal feelings and ALWAYS discuss what's BEST for the PLAYER...that's part of your job as a coach....whether you be the Head Coach or an Assistant. If what's best for the player is that he move on, you support the player....that's not the same thing as encouraging them to leave or actively trying to persuade them to leave. Pushing them to LEAVE and pushing them to STAY are equally wrong...your job as a players COACH is to encourage them to make the best decision for them.

 

[Sycamorefan96]

Some of you will kiss Lansing's @$$ until the very end. His advice should have been "you should talk to the new coach and give him a chance", not "leave and I'll take some phone calls for you". I kind of doubt Lansing's advice to LaRavia and the other contributing players, would have been to pick up their bags and go to Wake Forest (or wherever) if he had received a new contract.

I know there's probably some sour grapes and overall I think Clink and Curtis are a couple of clowns trying to run a circus, but I just feel like helping ISU players leave after essentially getting fired is a low path.

 

[SycamoreStateofMind]

When a player comes to you for advise, as a coach, you must seperate any personal feelings and ALWAYS discuss what's BEST for the PLAYER...that's part of your job as a coach....whether you be the Head Coach or an Assistant. If what's best for the player is that he move on, you support the player....that's not the same thing as encouraging them to leave or actively trying to persuade them to leave. Pushing them to LEAVE and pushing them to STAY are equally wrong...your job as a players COACH is to encourage them to make the best decision for them.

Absolutely. I think we’ve established that and everyone has pretty much moved on at this point.

GL had a great career here regardless of what some say or think. The handling of his departure left a lot to be desired from all sides.

Some took issue with Lansing “helping” his guys... Helping his guys doesn’t really match up well with comments about loving Indiana State & Terre Haute. I think that is probably where people got sideways with the idea of those guys leaving.

It was just a highly emotional situation for a lot of people and it still is... But I am not sure what is left to discuss at this point?? What’s done is done. Some people don’t like the idea that he might of assisted - some understand it completely. I don’t think you have to have a right or a wrong answer. Everyone is entitled to feel a certain way and can be completely justified.

 

[SycamoreStateofMind]

Some of you will kiss Lansing's @$$ until the very end. His advice should have been "you should talk to the new coach and give him a chance", not "leave and I'll take some phone calls for you". I kind of doubt Lansing's advice to LaRavia and the other contributing players, would have been to pick up their bags and go to Wake Forest (or wherever) if he had received a new contract.

I know there's probably some sour grapes and overall I think Clink and Curtis are a couple of clowns trying to run a circus, but I just feel like helping ISU players leave is a low path.

Take it easy.

 

[rsperge]

What's done is done, President Curtis hopefully gets the boot, I try to look at things in a objective way, it was an emotional time, but it was handled terribly, Greg Lansing is gone now, and its time for all parties to move on. I am sure Coach Lansing was hurt, look the man was involved with the program for some 20 years, as a coach and as an assistant.

 

[Daveinth]

Been kind of quiet on this subject but am I correct that GL had a 1 year extension offered to him and he chose not to accept the extension? If this is true then Indiana State did not fire him he chose to leave by not accepting the offer.

 

[TreeTop]

Been kind of quiet on this subject but am I correct that GL had a 1 year extension offered to him and he chose not to accept the extension? If this is true then Indiana State did not fire him he chose to leave by not accepting the offer.

By that logic, we can say that the university turned down his two-year extension request, thereby relieving him of his duties when he actually wanted to stay.

Regardless, what’s done is done. We have a new coach. A new coach whom I’m excited about.

 

[Daveinth]

By that logic, we can say that the university turned down his two-year extension request, thereby relieving him of his duties when he actually wanted to stay.

Regardless, what’s done is done. We have a new coach. A new coach whom I’m excited about.

Or you could say they countered with a 1 year either way . I think there is a lot of people who are excited about a new style of play the new coach is bringing myself included .