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Today at 2 pm.
Maybe the USCHO jinx will come into effect.
semi shocked that they actually asked my question. I guess the wooden sticks story is true...
QuoteDevin (Dryden, NY): The St. Cloud road trip seems to have been a defining point in the season, what did you and the rest of the coaching staff do to motivate the team after such a miserable road trip?
Coach Roll: I think for all of us, it was certainly an eye-opener in terms of the work ethic that's needed to win night in and night out, and in that four-game losing streak, we did not have that determination and work ethic to get to that level St. Cloud was at. I give J.F. Houle, who is a proud alum, a lot of the credit for putting things in perspective. A lot of things guys take for granted were taken away. We got wood sticks, and made the players' lounge off limits. I'm not saying it was all based on that, but I'd say that we realized that to have success we needed to do more than just show up. Night in and night out, we have to come with a determination and an effort, and with a passion to play the game. The players deserve a lot of the credit also. They took it upon themselves. Our work ethic in practice has been much better from that time on. That's where players get better and establish habits that make themselves better and make their teammates better, and those practice habits have carried over to the games.
[quote Dpperk29]semi shocked that they actually asked my question. I guess the wooden sticks story is true...
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Nice. Thanks for posting.
Wasn't it Mark Morris who used to say: "Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard?"
[quote Al DeFlorio][quote Dpperk29]semi shocked that they actually asked my question. I guess the wooden sticks story is true...
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Nice. Thanks for posting.
Wasn't it Mark Morris who used to say: "Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard?"[/quote]
I thought it was Barry Melrose.
BTW (and OT, sorry), over the holidays, I saw Barry on ESPN/Sportscenter. I hadn't seen him on TV since last spring, and it looks like during the intervening time he has been holed up in a cabin in the Adirondacks and in total isolation. I definitely thought he looked scary!
[quote Al DeFlorio][quote Dpperk29]semi shocked that they actually asked my question. I guess the wooden sticks story is true...
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Nice. Thanks for posting.
Wasn't it Mark Morris who used to say: "Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard?"[/quote]
Yes he did, in fact he had it posted in the locker room if I recall correctly. I was told that Lou Holtz was the originator of that quote but have not heard for sure.
And yes, the "wood sticks" practices did happen. Coach Roll talked about it during the Bowling Green and Miami of Ohio weekend series in the postgame. I made a note for use with my Bantam team. :-)
[quote Rich S]
Yes he did, in fact he had it posted in the locker room if I recall correctly. I was told that Lou Holtz was the originator of that quote but have not heard for sure.
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When we moved to Raleigh in the fall of '79, we looked at the house Holtz was selling. Needed a lot of work. Back then big-time college football coaches weren't making seven figures.