Coach's post game comment

[Shockers5150]

Nm

[WSUwatcher]

I thought Coach had some interesting post-game comments regarding winning the outright Valley championship. Mostly I found it interesting how much he really didn't care. It seemed as if he knows his team is head-and-shoulders above the league, and that the 3-peat, while nice, isn't anything to write home about. Every time it was brought up, he shrugged it off, choosing instead to mention that the things they wanted to accomplish as a team awaited them in March....or later.

Coaches and teams who aim high generally have a series of goals, of which winning the conference is typically the first; but in a sport where it isn't necessarily essential to achieving some of the bigger, later ones -- things like getting to the second weekend of the NCAA tournament, getting to the Final Four, and then... -- the later goals tend to take precedence and overshadow the conference championship. It's all part of being "Not Satisfied," which is exactly the attitude Marshall and his crew have, and exactly the attitude we want them to have.

[shock]

It's not that these minor achievements don't matter, because if we didn't achieve them we would see just how important they are. But they are in the way for what the team wants to achieve.