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Postgame- BU 78 WSU 63

I will say this.........Mark Turgeon is a class coach.......and the league is lucky to keep a man of his caliber around this long! :wink: It just shows that the Valley has come a long way! 8)
 
He is a fine coach, but the Wichita newspaper did a piece on how he seems to have lost some control.
He wanted to get Ogirri to cut or control his hair and Ogirri refused, and the coach said something publicly about how Ogirri wanted to be a prima donna, and ever since then Ogirri's jump shot has been in the trash.
He has done a particularly good job of coaching the past few weeks, but he is a fine coach that WSU should be thankful they have.
 
How would you like him setting a screen on you.....you would be able to keep track of the ball or the player with it..... :lol:
 
Da Coach said:
Nothing yet posted in the PJ Star.
But here is an article from the Wichita press--

Bradley pounds Shocks--
http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/sports/colleges/wichita_state_university/16511908.htm
I love the Mark Turgeon quote--"We didn't have an answer at the start of the game. They were moving at a whole 'nother level than we were moving."
Turgeon agreed that Will Franklin's shot with about 7 minutes left was the big shot of the game.
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Phew! What can I say. Wichita St is a team in complete disarray right now, and Bradley fully exploited that. I still think WSU has a run in them as they go through the easiest part of their schedule, but what a collapse. If anyone would have said we would be 2 full games ahead of them in the standings at this stage of the season, I would have asked them what they were drinking! But let's just say we caught a break, and it made Bradley's job much easier last night!

Let's get IL St on Wednesday night! The atmosphere ought to be fun!
 
Forgot to mention this about last night.....but it was great to see Deon Jackson back in the CC and looking good......and his 2 sons really seemed to be enjoying the moment! Good Luck to Deon and his boys! :wink:
 
tornado said:
He is a fine coach, but the Wichita newspaper did a piece on how he seems to have lost some control.
He wanted to get Ogirri to cut or control his hair and Ogirri refused, and the coach said something publicly about how Ogirri wanted to be a prima donna, and ever since then Ogirri's jump shot has been in the trash.
He has done a particularly good job of coaching the past few weeks, but he is a fine coach that WSU should be thankful they have.
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Do you have a link to this article? If Turgeon cared that much about Ogirri's hair, it would be gone. People have been giving his afro too much credit for things both good and bad this year. I'm not trying to be argumentative, the Shocks' sickness runs much deeper than this.
 
Here is an article from back in November, where Turgeon says he doesn't like the haircut, but Ogirri wants to stand out.
"as long as guys are playing well, you really don't care what their hair looks like."

I wonder what he is thinking now that Ogirri has shot 0% on 3-pointers the last 2 games?

It seems Ogirri's older brother wants to "market" Ogirri by having him were the distinctive hairdo and were odd shoes. Turgeon is OK with it --
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/print?id=2671631&type=story

More about the Shocker's hair stories--
http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/sp...63.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp

http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/sports/columnists/bob_lutz/16503620.htm
 
Turgeon doesn't like the hair because he wants all of his players to be nondescript and not to draw any attention. I think he also realizes that these are kids and it's not really that big a deal. Knowing the way Turgeon is, if he really cared that much about the hair, Ogirri wouldn't be playing until it was gone.

As for those articles, they were written by the local columnist who was just looking for offbeat things to write about. The second, in particular, was just him kidding around, not reporting fact.

People just read way too much into a kid's hair. And no, I don't even think it's symptomatic of deeper problems. I think the deeper problems are very real, but this is hardly a part of it.

Don't mean to keep bumping this thread to the top, because I know you guys don't really care. But the same stuff is being thrown out there on Shockernet, and I think that if people pay attention to how Turgeon's behaved in the past, they'll see that these things don't add up. Then again, if Ogirri magically isn't back next year, maybe we'll see that I'm the one who was wrong... :cry:
 
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