re: John Brady under appreciated per Mark Gottfried

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Have you ever had a personal conversation with John Brady?

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umm yea, let's say I know the guy. I spent a year of my life listening to him and watching him closely. Let me give you a glimpse of John Brady the coach.

Practice starts at 3PM, Pierre gets there at 2:30 and talks to the players and checks on them. At 3 they either go into the meeting room for gameplan, or just out to the court where Brady is waiting. Brady spends 3/4 practice on defense and yelling obscenities and calling most the kids pussies. During which, there are numerous near fights with the players or coaches.

I have witnessed Big Baby throw a chair Bobby Knight style and try to attack Brady while Tack and D-Mitch were telling him Brady ain't worth it. I watched as he told the team after a loss that Brandon Bass was the only real player on the team and everyone else should thank him for their scholarships. Then when they went back to the locker room, everybody wanted to fight Bass who promptly got up and started talking insane shite about Brady.

I give Brady props because the kids who stayed he made mentally stronger. It's hilarious though that he ran 2 kids off a year, but people say he's NOT a dick. I just gave a quick 2 examples. I could sit here and type for 4 hours and tell you stories. But you either a) wouldn't believe them or b) they wouldn't change your mind.

Guys like Darrel Mitchell, Taz, Darnell Lazare, Temple..those guys are wired differently and strongly. That '06 team was so special because almost all of them had an upbringing that in some form or fashion molded them to be able to handle those things.

The best thing John Brady ever did was NOT let Josh Maravich play for Senior day. Kid didn't show up to practice for 2 months, shows up the day of the game for Senior day and is expected to play.