Sean Woods: You're Not At MVSU Anymore (Pushes Player And Verbally Berates Him)


There are a lot of athletes who don't care about the demeanor of the coach. Some guys embrace it, and use it as a means of elevating their performance. For others, they can't handle it. Different players respond to different forms of treatment from coaches.
 
truthteller said:
I agree with this. I do believe the other player is covering up how he really feels about the coach, because he doesn't wanna risk screwing up his own establishment. I believe there is a way to still command respect from grown men in a professional setting without behaving like a raging lunatic. I do understand that things can get heated at times, but there are boundaries that should not be crossed when dealing with adults. One can have passion for what he's doing, yet still be firm, encouraging, & respectable. This dude we see is not the first coach I've seen behaving this way. It's learned behavior being passed down across the board. That university needs to mandate him go into psychotherapy if he wants to keep his position.
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You know two coaches who act similarly to Sean Woods? If the season ended today, their schools would be squaring off for the BCS championship.
 



Man when I began coaching high school baseball while a student in college, I had to learn really quickly that yelling and going at your players doesn't work for a lot of players. There's a time to get on your players...but there's also a certain way to do it. And getting in a player's face and shoving them is not the way to do it...dude reminds me BCU's football coach(a guy known for having a temper and losing his cool on the sideline).
 
but Sean Woods should have been smarter because now you have players accusing coaches of abuse because the reprimanded them at practice. lol
 
Bunch of soft punks these days. Whatever happened to letting your nu*$ hang? Man, I grew up on UGK and Geto Boys.

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Coaches and players have to understand that actions will be more scrunitized than yesteryear due to the access everyone has to multimedia. I don't feel sorry for coaches now. They should know better.
 
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Two days after a heated sideline exchange between Morehead State coach Sean Woods and his starting point guard drew national criticism, the school has made it clear such behavior will not be tolerated.

Morehead State released a statement Friday announcing it has suspended Woods for Monday's game against Norfolk State.
"It is our expectation that our coaches are first teachers, who reflect the core values of the university which includes valuing the individual and treating people with respect," athletic director Brian Hutchinson said. "Near the end of the game, Coach Woods' interaction with one of our student-athletes fell short of that value and was unacceptable.

"We believe Coach Woods, while remorseful, is not above reproach. Therefore, he will be suspended for Monday night's game against Norfolk State. This will allow Coach Woods to consider his action and behavior, and allow him time to contemplate the appropriate way to conduct himself with his players and on the sideline."
The incident took place with five minutes left in the second half of Morehead State's 81-70 loss to Kentucky when point guard Devon Akinson fouled out on a reach-in foul and did not return to the bench as quickly as Woods wanted.

Woods walked onto the court to scream at his point guard, shoved him in the back toward his seat on the bench and got nose-to-nose with Atkinson until an assistant coach got between them. The separation didn't last long because the Morehead State coach again got in the senior's face once he took a seat on the bench, leaving Atkinson near tears and the broadcast crew calling the game silent.

Tough love from a coach is certainly nothing new in college basketball, but Woods crossed the line losing his cool at a player and putting his hands on him. Morehead State got it right sending its first-year coach a message with a one-game penalty but not overreacting to public and media backlash with a longer suspension.
In a statement also released Friday, Woods acknowledged he made a mistake and accepted his punishment.

"My behavior during Wednesday night's game was inappropriate and unacceptable," Woods said. "I am truly sorry.

"I value the opportunity I have been given as the head men's basketball coach at Morehead State. I am passionate about the young men on our team and the opportunities we have together. I care for them deeply. I can assure our student-athletes, university community, alumni and fans that anything approaching this type of situation will not happen again."
 
Prior to this incident, he made comments toward another player [White], now how come Woods was not aggressive toward the wite player as he was with th eblack player.

Woods may be stupid, but not a fool. He knows if he had pushed the white player, his azz would have had a date in court and suied by those white parents.

Whyu do coaches like Woods make a difference between black and white players.
 
kendrick said:
There are a lot of athletes who don't care about the demeanor of the coach. Some guys embrace it, and use it as a means of elevating their performance. For others, they can't handle it. Different players respond to different forms of treatment from coaches.
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So true Kendrick!
 
kendrick said:
Coaches are only father figures for those who desire for them to fill that role, or believe that should come with the terrority of being an authority figure.
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He's a father figure period. The kids have no choice. Woods are there to make them better, athleticly and in life. These kids are just too soft.
 



I wish Ole Vester was that aggressive
Can Sean come down here and hold a workshop and show our staff how to shake them kids up when they Fukk up
 
Woods is a father figure. White players already have their fathers at home. That's why.
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Dude, you sound like, you are from the back woods of some hick County, in the South. There are both whites and blacks that was raised without their father in the home as well in the home, and they are both playing ball, running track, academic scholars, etc, etc. And there are fathers thay may not be physically in the home, but are a active part of their children lives.

Woods, is not a father figure, if he abused Atkinson over a silly foul. I am wondering if his father abused him, when he did not feed the chickens. he is the type of Negro that will use and abuse a black kid, because he knows perhaps there is no one to support him. He is the kind, the master used to beat, his brothers and sisters, because they did not pick enough cotton.

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After the game, Woods defended his coaching style, saying he wanted his team to reflect his passion for the game

"How did they look tonight? They look just like me, right?" Woods said. "They see me every day and that's how we're going to be every day. We're going to fight. ...

It was his second intense sideline encounter with a player this season. During a 67-45 loss at Maryland on Nov. 12, Woods was seen yelling in the face of Chad Posthumus while the junior center was sitting on the bench

A coach can have a passion for the game, but crosses the line when he / she allows their emotion's to express their displeasure.So how come Woods did not push, Chad?

On Monday he criticized some of the current Wildcats' attitude and for their limited knowledge of Kentucky basketball history. It bothered him that Wildcats freshman center Willie Cauley-Stein was unaware of Christian Laettner or "The Shot" that beat Kentucky in the 1992 NCAA East Regional final.

"They don't get it," said Woods, a point guard on that Kentucky team and whose jersey hangs from the Rupp Arena rafters.

"They play basketball, but they don't know what basketball really is. And they're very, very fortunate. We live in a microwave society now, and it's a shame that kids don't know the history."
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Why is he concerned about the lack of knowledge, of the UK players. Sound like he's trying to become an assistant at UK. What Wood's, need to do is read the history of UK and how they treated black back in the day. He need to read the story about Tom Payne. He was only to "allowed" to play at UK, because of Payne. His "UK" Rupp was racist as well as the university, I wonder if he know that part of UK's history. It's a toss up which is the worse Ole Pizz or Kentucky, but Negros still flock to the programs..

"That night, Texas Western upset a Kentucky team coached by Adolph Rupp, who refused to call black players by anything but a slur you probably haven't heard in years." - by Skip Bayless, Chicago Tribune, "A Night for Irony -- And History," March 31, 1998.

Alexander Wolff tries to paint Rupp as a racist in his book Raw Recruits and comes up with an interesting example.

"Rupp was quite happy to play against blacks, for it gave him a chance to confirm his notions of white supremacy. Twice [sic] Kentucky went to the NCAA Tournament despite finishing second in the SEC, because first-place Mississippi State refused to play in an integrated field." - by Alexander Wolff and Armen Keteyian, Raw Recruits, Pocket Books, (1991) pg. 103.
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http://www.bigbluehistory.net/bb/rupp.html#evidencecon

"Now I understand that it was institutional racism. I understand that [Adolph Rupp] put me out there, he believed in me. ... So I've come to have a kind of love for him as a father figure."
- Tom Payne
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Eagles junior forward Drew Kelly said that Woods' behavior doesn't make the team uncomfortable.

"We can handle it and it makes us better," Kelly said after the Kentucky game
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Kelly is telling a lie, looking at the video, the other players was looking as if they were having a heart attack.
 
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Blacknbengal said:
He's a father figure period. The kids have no choice. Woods are there to make them better, athleticly and in life. These kids are just too soft.
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Black, stop it mane. You honestly believe that Woods or any other coach is a father figure because the kids have no choice? lol.
 
No one never told Coach Eddie Rob that he wasn't a father figure to his players.
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Bb,

Yo know better, there is no comparison of Woods and a majority of the Negros coaching at PWC's, to Coache's like Rob, Merritt, Gaither, Kean, Ace Mumford and others. Why, The coaches I mention was made of a different type of character, they loved their players and schools. They had an opportunity to coach at PWC's or the pros. However, they remained at their respective HBCU.

Besides, who said that Atkinson did not have a father in his home.

A majority of the coaches like Woods are using players and schools like MSU as a stepping stone, praying that they have an opportunity to become a third or fourth assistant at schools like Kentucky. If "Father Figure" Woods, loved black kids and wanted to be a father, he could have remaind at Valley. He maybe a good coach, but I gurantee you he is only there to recruit the black players, he is just a figurehead, no say so, let him get out of line with the AD of push one of the white players, his tenure will be short lived.

The administration at MSU is just as wrong, a one game suspension! That's only to say "I agree with you and your actions" Those folks at program like MSU can care less about black players and in most cases the average black student. Wood's is there just to recruit black players, just as Anderson was at Murray State.

Anyone remember Frankie Allen, at Murray State. Ask, him or Tevester Anderson what happened when they lost the game against TN State. Those folks, blamed him on the lost.
 
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