You knew his FATHER..wow you must be old....LOL
I had the misfortune of coaching youth football with him for a year.
The father set an example of how not to be a person.
Mods, I started this post late last night, why is it on page 3 with Sack starting the thread ? Just curious ?
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The nut must not fall far from the tree, because now Bo is putting his foot in his mouth by slamming the programs like Duke that now recruit the one and done players instead of grooming them in a 4-5 year program. Well Bo, times have changed in College basketball, and if you ever want to win a National Championship, you better adjust your program. Act classy Bo, and congratulate Duke & Coach K, and keep your negative comments to yourself.
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i merged it with the ncaa march madness thread
Bo comes across just like his father did.
As for the merge, I think it was merged into the existing NCAA basketball thread by design. No slight was meant.
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Ryan has little to say & even less he can do about it.
The academic standards for all Wisconsin student athletes is one of the toughest in the nation.
But even though his recruiting is severely curtailed by it, and even though his roundballers are almost exclusively local & from the surrounding states like Illinois/Indiana & rarely from places where street ball is king, (LA, NYC, S. Fla, TX), Ryan lands intelligent players with sound fundamentals and the ability to understand his complex game plans.
What he would not do, (and why his players are probably ill-equipped to play in the NBA), is unleash the dogs and play "thug-ball" - which Coach K did when Duke found itself losing at the 9 minute mark.
#1 Son & I started counting up the number of deliberate blows to the head by Duke players to Badger players over the last 10 minutes of the game.
There was a point when we considered that game to not be a basketball game, but a Cruiserweight boxing match, in which the Badgers had to wear gloves while the thugs from Duke used bare knuckles.
(Need any more proof than Decker's face at the end of the game? The guy looked like he'd gone 15 rounds with Yoan Pablo Hernández Suárez. Cut lip, scratched cornea, & contusions covering his entire cheeks, forehead, and chin.)
Stephen A. on 'First Take' was highly critical of Bo Ryan for not taking off the gloves in such a big game, and perhaps he was right, but HYATT™ finds no shame in playing with good sportsmanship and going down in defeat, if the opponent had to cheat to win.
Enjoy your 5th National Championship title Coach K, but some of us know you'll always know how low you had to stoop to get it.
HYATT™;27147 said:
Wisconsin-Madison is an outstanding academic institution, but a lot of the other state schools in the Wisconsin system have drawn the ire of other Division III programs. Certainly Wisconsin-Whitewater of late, but Ryan won a few DIII national titles at Wisconsin-Platteville.
That said, good sportsmanship is something the Ryan family doesn't exactly have a great familiarity with.