Thought I had posted yesterday about Bill Stewart kicking three players off the football team — fast — but for some reason it didn’t appear. In hindsight, it was unnecessary to post and discuss because I think everyone would share some form of the same opinion, that being Stewart is making his stance right away and that the former coach wouldn’t have been so emphatic.
Eh, perhaps, but I think it’s ridiculous people would think Stewart is ruling while remembering with something as distant and irrelevant as Adam Lehnortt’s trouble in 2004. And why are we talking about Dan Mozes and his arrest? Remember, too, that he was kept on the team and became a consensus All-America center. One has nothing to do with the other and I think it’s unfair to coaches and players to invoke the names of Chris Henry or Pacman Jones as if they have some influence over what happens inside the football program.
This is simply about three kids getting caught — side-note: I only interviewed James Ingram once, so I don’t know very much about him and what makes him tick aside from the fact he’s from the greatest city in the world, but I cannot believe he told the sheriffs he had more tree at his house — and one coach sticking to his principals. Best of luck to all three and one wonders if the university will and/or should help them in their legal proceedings as the it did for troubled players before them.
Onto the Feedback. As always comments appear as posted. In other words, if you make a mistake, you can’t take it back. Isn’t that right, Ronald Ramon?
Foul shot said:
Coach Huggins, can you please, please, please tell these guys to relax and make some foul shots? I know that you feel the same as we can see your pain each time a foul shot clanks off the rim. WVU should have beaten OK, Georgetown and now Pitt if they could just make some darn foul shots.
It appears that the makeup of the WVU hoops team is such that they are a decent NIT team but don’t quite have the ability to make or win anything in the NCAA Tournament (March Madness.)
We know that Huggins will get this worked out over time as he keeps getting guys like Thouroughman who hustle and think and not guys who get brain freeze such as the group who could not switch on their screens last night against Pitt. It is quite hard to keep taking these losses in winnable games.
A slam dunk, which, by the way, the Mountaineers could use right about now. Imagine if WVU makes its free throws and wins those games. Where are they at 19-4 and 7-3 in the Big East? I think it’s presumptuous to say free throws are the only problem because there are a number of other plays in those games that would have helped had they gone in WVU’s favor, but the truth here is the simplest skill in the game has escaped the players. Worse, they know it. Let’s not forget the team’s top three scorers are in a funk all at once and the same team that has lost three of four has lost to Georgetown and Pitt by one point. It’s not over and it reasons to say those three might soon come around and start hitting. Defense is not the problem and if WVU gets some offense, things will change.
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