I have read every word in this post, and I'm not sure how to go about responding. In the spirit of the family aspect of this forum, here goes. My reasons for why the BG men's basketball program is in shambles...Bleeding Orange wrote:You need to learn some manners, son.bgsufalcon24 wrote:I am absolutely in shock. I say one thing about coach Dakich, and everybody goes crazy. I'm beginning to agree with clevelandfalcon, this site is a no-criticism zone. The minute you say something negative about anybody, you got 3 people coming after you. Are there people at BG who have given more to this university than I have, sure there are. But for you to come out and differentiate people inside the student body of Bowling Green who are man enough to speak their mind about our athletic programs and the individuals that make them up, as schmucks, that does it. I am absolutely sick of the treatment that I have recieved on this site simply because I am calling a spade a spade when I say that the basketball team stinks and coach Dakich is doing a terrible job. You honestly don't think that people in the BG student body would say disrespectful things about faculty, staff, the people who run this university and our athletic teams? Get a clue pal, that happens every day, every hour of every day. Because I am one that is saying this, am I less of a fan even though I went to almost all the hockey and football games, and most of the women's B-ball games this season? No. I love how I have to think that everybody is great and that everything is all fine and dandy to get any type of respect on here. Whatever happened to critical thinking/evaluation? (BTW, that was the first class I took here at BG fall semester, so don't get me started)HoustonFalcon wrote:First of all, calling coach a loser might be the most disrespectful thing that I've seen on here today. It's one thing to call one of us name, but to call a coach that gives his all to the university a loser, that crosses the line of stupidity. If you think that you are the lifeblood of the university, then you are sadly mistaken. You are only one of thousands of kids that attend BG, and I'm sure most of them wouldn't come on here and call coach a loser. The lifeblood of the university are the kids that are active on campus and do things that are productive. The lifeblood of the university are the kids that support their university, and don't get into namecalling of employees that have worked and given much more than you to the university. The lifeblood of the university is not you sir, the lifeblood of the university may be from the 18-22 yr. old individual, but the schmucks of the bunch are not the LIFEBLOOD of the university. I'm sure that there are a lot of people on this board that gave way much more time to the university than you do, and that is the lifeblood of the university. You give me a list of your accomplishments so far, and I will tell you if you qualify as part of that group. I respect that you aren't happy with the way the program is going right now. I remember being unhappy with the way the football team was playing, and unhappy with Coach Blackney with the performance. But I did not call him names, and I was at every game while I was there. That is the lifeblood. People that bleed orange and brown and love the school and programs, good or bad, that is the lifeblood.
By the way, did I EVER say that I was the lifeblood of BG?!! Not even close, so shut your trap. When I made that statement I was referring to the 4,653 students who came into BG fall semester, and for you to misconstrue this statement into a gain for your own little argument is nothing but a blatant ambiguity.
I realize that you are young, but you need to realize that there are many, many more who have come before you and experienced the same things that you are experiencing. For you to sit here and say that people calling faculty and staff members names is "reality" and that we should just accpet it is beyond your common offense.
Bottom line - the world does not revolve around you, and you have no idea what reality is. Yet. I am confident, based on my experience at BGSU, that the education you will recieve over the next few years will teach you what reality is, but until that time, don't go insulting others who think you are out of line simply because you are unwilling to review and question your own actions.
And yes, I have come after you once before. I explained to you why, and I did so in a constructive manner. It is clear, though, that you simply don't give a sh!t what other people think about your opinion right now, because your candor has not only not improved, but in many ways grown more egregious.
It is fine that you are disappointed with this season. Newsflash: SO IS EVERYONE ELSE, even the people that are trying to be "positive." There is no denying that. Your problem is that you make no effort whatsoever to make constructive criticisms. You want to talk about ambiguities? Every statement you have made in the past two days has been filled with ambiguous rage. Why are you angry? Is it the transfers? Is it the fact that we can't win close games? Is it the mysterious bald spot on Coach D's head? Is it all of the above? No one knows, because your comments have largely been restricted to simply saying that you are angry, and have devolved into calling the coach a loser.
You commented a couple of days ago that you felt as though people were trying to drive you away from this board. If you continue to show that you are unwilling to change your attitude and show a complete lack of respect for anyone or anything besides your own opinion, perhaps your paranoia isn't completely unfounded...
1.Transfers - This is the biggest problem. We bring in these kids that can help us, but we have a coach that either cannot or will not effectively coach them. This leads to bad blood between player and coach, seen most notably with Stephen Wright. Another reason for transfers is probably the decrepit state of Anderson Arena. Playing in AA cannot be a good selling point for potential recruits. The athletic facilities in general are a big minus in terms of recruiting pitches, and that hurts us in trying to get players to come here. What is especially bad is that we have schools in the MAC East division touting 10,000-seat arenas, like Ohio. That gives the Bobcats a huge advantage over us in the recruiting battle, and will likely result in them being consistently better than us. You see this in professional sports all the time, the teams that have the nice stadiums are often the ones that score the big name free agents and are consistently better as a result.
2.Dakich kills the spirit of the players - This is purely speculation, but given the amount of transfers out of here, and given the bad blood surfacing between Stephen Wright and Dakich, I am willing to guess that most BG players don't have much fun on the basketball court. It would seem to me that Dakich's coaching style is such that he breaks these kids mentally and destroys their spirit to play. Now obviously this is a hypothesis, but given the recent events in this program, I wouldn't doubt it, and I have reason to suspect it.
3.Coaching, especially late in games - I am not in the huddle by the bench, so I do not know exactly what happens there, but a few things are certain. In the final 3-5 minutes of games, we do everything to prevent us winning the game. We turn the ball over, we don't box out, we take poor shots, we play scared. You can tell the guys on our team are all looking at each other to make a play, because nobody knows what the heck to do with the game on the line. How many games have we lost this season by 3 points or less? 6? 7? 8? And its not like I can blame the players that much, they try hard, really hard to win. The coach does not have A FREAKING CLUE what to do late in games. This is a big reason why I dislike Dakich. He has taken this bunch of players and due to his poor offensive and defensive schemes late in games, turned this team into the biggest late-game chokers in the nation this year. This annoys me to no end. Say what you want about lack of talent, I say if we are good enough to hang with a team for 36 minutes, we ought to be able to play with them for 40.
4.Coaching, not playing freshmen - This is another thing that erks me. Why aren't our young guns starting, playing lots of minutes in every game? The season is lost, and by playing upperclassmen in games you know we can't win anyway, we aren't developing our younger players. Then when they actually see significant time in their 2nd and 3rd seasons, they are way behind in their development, perhaps permanently. Best player be darned, in a season like this where it is clear you have no chance, you have to play the guys that you expect to be the heart of your team for the next 2-3 years. No buts. We have a freshman this year that could become the next great post player in the MAC, but he wasn't even playing much for much of the season. Now that Wright is gone, we should see much more of Moon and Moten, but knowing Dakich, he'll probably play Patrick Phillips instead...
This stuff is tough, and possibly even embarrasing to talk about. Which is why I can't quite understand how anybody could even attempt to put a positive spin on things. I just don't think that way, if the team I root for is 9-17, I'll be honest, I won't have many good things to say. That being said, I don't think anything I've said or done on this site is anything to get worked up about. However, since everybody is different, some will disagree with that. Fine. But I refuse to yield my opinions because somebody thinks badly of what I have to say.
