Welcome - Paul Mills

[N Crestway]

On an previous Podcast, Mills stated in his calm minister like way that things would get better going forward. Since I believed him, now having a severe crisis of faith.

[Maizerunner08]

Wearing out his welcome. Wasn’t expected miracles this season but progress. This team has stagnated or dare I say, regressed.

[Aargh]

The honeymoon is officially over

Yep. the only benefit of the doubt I'm giving him is that he inherited many of the problems and had a short recruiting cycle. What he's done with what he's got isn't encouraging.

[BostonWu]

The honeymoon is officially over

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What's Mills makin'? $100k/month? He needs to kick back some of that towards his player's salaries until (if) he's producing on the court. I'd say $1k/month per scholly is fair.

You're not gettin' your full paycheck with an "unfull" team.

He should volunteer this today. Marshall probably would have. He asked Schaus to fire him his first year because losing was unacceptable to him.

[Kung Wu]

Apparently boxing out is part of the care score. So it's allegedly important. Why do we see so little of it in games?

Maybe recently added because the coaches noticed the same thing?

[ShockerFever]

Apparently boxing out is part of the care score. So it's allegedly important. Why do we see so little of it in games?

Valid question.

[shock]

Apparently boxing out is part of the care score. So it's allegedly important. Why do we see so little of it in games?

I honestly thought it was a tactical strategy because they do it so little.

Great question for the coaches show.

[SubGod22]

Eldridge story from today-Why Mills won't overreact to December losses:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/oth...es/ar-AA1mpUPG

Apparently boxing out is part of the care score. So it's allegedly important. Why do we see so little of it in games?

[shockrah]

Eldridge story from today-Why Mills won't overreact to December losses:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/oth...es/ar-AA1mpUPG

[WstateU]

I’ll just put this here since PM coaches the most visible sport; obviously could be posted in several places…

“The new hires bring different backgrounds.

Mills started as a high school coach and came up through the Scott Drew coaching tree at Baylor. He spent six seasons building his program at Oral Roberts. Nooner played men's basketball at Kansas and worked as a women's assistant there and at Texas, Maryland, Alabama and Southern Illinois.

Green is at his third stop as a head coach after four seasons at Washington State and five at New Mexico State.

What is similar is the three men's reputation for building relationships. Mills, Nooner and Green are all described as people who connect and serve their athletes. In an unpredictable and changing world of college athletics, those attributes are one way to recruit and retain.

"The student-athlete walks away knowing the coach has their best interests at heart, knowing that coach cares for them at a genuine and authentic level," director of athletics Kevin Saal said in August. "You have to coach the person first. We need connectors. We need leaders of people. Relational folks that can have the hard conversations and do it in such a way where it is a family atmosphere and it's genuine."”

https://x.com/paulsuellentrop/status...RAo3nyj2tMrEmg

[MikeKennedyRulZ]

This Paul Mills quote came out of Taylor's latest newspaper story covering the Shockers.

I think this is one of the most impressive quotes (one liners anyway) from any coach, and high school, small college coaches, etc. should frame it up and put it on their walls.

"The players who are uncoachable and will fight you, I say this a lot, uncoachable players eventually turn into unemployed adults."

He went on to say that his team doesn't have any of those players right now.

One name comes to mind from the past and it rhymes with Hack Norris.

[SubGod22]

That's a pretty well known line at this point. I've seen it make the rounds on FB and Twitter for at least the last 5 years with some of the local and national coaches I follow in various sports.

It's really been pushed in the recruiting scene amongst those coaches and I've seen them use this quote to explain why they at times have stopped recruiting good talent because it's just not worth it.

The coaches job is to find talent that fits this mold and the philosophy of the coach and win games.

[Shockm]

This Paul Mills quote came out of Taylor's latest newspaper story covering the Shockers.

I think this is one of the most impressive quotes (one liners anyway) from any coach, and high school, small college coaches, etc. should frame it up and put it on their walls.

"The players who are uncoachable and will fight you, I say this a lot, uncoachable players eventually turn into unemployed adults."

He went on to say that his team doesn't have any of those players right now.