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From the Omaha newspaper account - props to WSU . . . (and, on a side note - I will ignore the hundreds of posts coming up in the next few days on Shocker national ranking and just root for them to win Wednesday night - one at a time - Go Shox!!!)
"CU coach Greg McDermott, who has had a smile on his face much of this season, was seen lighting into his son, Doug, the team's star, on the sidelines. Reportedly, the scene got a lot of run on ESPN Saturday night.
When Nebraska football coach Bo Pelini does it, he gets hammered in some corners of the media and his fan base. The same is fair for Mac. Now, the Creighton coach is more media savvy than Pelini. He handled it better afterward, explaining that he was trying to light a fire under his team by getting after the star player, who wasn't doing so hot, either, the coach said.
These things can get overblown. Coaches yell at players. And Doug explained afterward that he took it the right way.
It was uncharacteristic of Greg McDermott, and it looked like a coach in a big game with a team on a quick slide down the hill and no idea how to stop the snowball.
Meanwhile, a former Creighton basketball player seated three seats down from Missouri Valley Commissioner Doug Elgin began yelling at Elgin during the game to get the officials off of Doug McDermott and keep one of the Valley's stars in the game. It was ugly.
He should have been yelling at Wichita State's Ben Smith, who put the clamps on Mac. This loss wasn't about officials. Wichita State lost center Garrett Stutz to a third foul in the first minute of the second half. Didn't bother the Shox one bit. "
"CU coach Greg McDermott, who has had a smile on his face much of this season, was seen lighting into his son, Doug, the team's star, on the sidelines. Reportedly, the scene got a lot of run on ESPN Saturday night.
When Nebraska football coach Bo Pelini does it, he gets hammered in some corners of the media and his fan base. The same is fair for Mac. Now, the Creighton coach is more media savvy than Pelini. He handled it better afterward, explaining that he was trying to light a fire under his team by getting after the star player, who wasn't doing so hot, either, the coach said.
These things can get overblown. Coaches yell at players. And Doug explained afterward that he took it the right way.
It was uncharacteristic of Greg McDermott, and it looked like a coach in a big game with a team on a quick slide down the hill and no idea how to stop the snowball.
Meanwhile, a former Creighton basketball player seated three seats down from Missouri Valley Commissioner Doug Elgin began yelling at Elgin during the game to get the officials off of Doug McDermott and keep one of the Valley's stars in the game. It was ugly.
He should have been yelling at Wichita State's Ben Smith, who put the clamps on Mac. This loss wasn't about officials. Wichita State lost center Garrett Stutz to a third foul in the first minute of the second half. Didn't bother the Shox one bit. "
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