Jimmy Martelli gets a job

[RU fanatic]

DOBO at VCU. Good to see him back in coaching. Was a good guy caught up in a bad situation never had any problems with him when I was a manager.

 

[Greene Rice FIG]

Based on what I saw and heard doesn't seem like a guy that should be around 18-22 year olds.

 

[RU fanatic]

Take 3 years of your life being recorded and tell me if you can't compile 10min of things you shouldn't be saying and he was hired as basketball operations at VCU. Isn't life about second chances. And being a former basketball manager who was around Martelli for 2 years in those practices it wasn't half as bad as the video made it seem

 

[Greene Rice FIG]

Take 3 years of your life being recorded and tell me if you can't compile 10min of things you shouldn't be saying and he was hired as basketball operations at VCU. Isn't life about second chances. And being a former basketball manager who was around Martelli for 2 years in those practices it wasn't half as bad as the video made it seem

Life is certainly about 2nd chances, but it is also about the 1st chance. Someone may not be getting it because Martelli is getting chance #2.

 

[Greene Rice FIG]

Martelli was known to coaches and players as "Baby Rice," "Outside the Lines" has learned.

In some of the hundreds of DVDs of Rutgers practices from 2010-12 being reviewed by "Outside the Lines," there are at least a handful of instances in which Martelli grabs, throws balls, shoves and screams at players, including calling one a "f---ing f----t."

 

[Greene Rice FIG]

Take 3 years of your life being recorded and tell me if you can't compile 10min of things you shouldn't be saying and he was hired as basketball operations at VCU.

NO. I probably coached more hours than Martelli. My tape would probably be 6 seconds of yelling at a kid for bringing a slurpie in the dugout.

 

[RU_DIO]

NO. I probably coached more hours than Martelli. My tape would probably be 6 seconds of yelling at a kid for bringing a slurpie in the dugout.

Are you coaching kids or adults.

 

[Greene Rice FIG]

yes...big difference. However, if you were to take the 45+ years of my life you would never here me call anyone a f-----t.

 

[patk89]

I can only imagine what Frank Martin (South Carolina) says to his players during practice. I'm sure that tape would scare some people.

 

[satnom]

Martelli looked like a 2nd grader bossing around high schoolers in those videos. He's lucky he didn't get back slapped by a player. Good thing players were able to restrain themselves or else Martelli would have been painted as the victim. Good thing everyone has moved on.

GO RU

 

[RU_DIO]

yes...big difference. However, if you were to take the 45+ years of my life you would never here me call anyone a f-----t.

I've called tons of people that over the years whether right or wrong. Pretty common word for us 40 something year olds usually referring to someone as a wimp. At least that's how we used the word.

 

[TDIrish27]

Everybody's does things differently and like most things in life there's no one right way of doing it.

I met guys over the years who played for Woody Hayes and he could get pretty salty but they would run through walls for him.

I played for a man who if he said dammit which was very rare the whole practice stopped but he was effective and to this day respected by all who played for him.

Ditto Bob Knight and Dean Smith-----different types but guys I've met in my lifetime who played for them loved the experience.

 

[bac2therac]

good for him, everyone gets second chances espeically when your previous infraction was fairly benign. How Martelli got the blame while Van Macon and David Cox got off free seems bizarre since the entire coaching staff is present

 

[MADHAT1]

good for him, everyone gets second chances espeically when your previous infraction was fairly benign. How Martelli got the blame while Van Macon and David Cox got off free seems bizarre since the entire coaching staff is present

I think he was seen in some of the edited videos going a little overboard in practice ( don't know if it was just one time or more) while Cox and Macon weren't shown doing anything like Rice and Martelli were;

I'm glad he's getting a second chance [thumb2]

 

[ColonelRutgers]

Always felt that Cox's act of secretly recording a conversation with Murdoch was a bit unsavory and that he was damaged goods too. Was glad when he moved on and we didn't have someone else in staff whose questionable behavior could eventually lead to more bad press or investigations.

 

[bac2therac]

they were there at practice as part of it, yes not caught on video but geez them being there pretty much means they were endorsing it even if they say they didnt. They were not speaking up....only Murdock cared and thats only because he got canned

 

[Greene Rice FIG]

where is the hype

 

[Mr_Twister]

Richmond-Post Dispatch article ... non-coaching position.

http://www.richmond.com/sports/coll...cle_6b32d525-3610-5599-8094-7ff7dd5f6ca9.html

 

[Russ Wood]

While it is true that that the director of basketball operations can’t participate in on-court or instructional activities with players, the DOBO (or Ops guy) is at every practice and serves as an extra set of eyes for the staff.

The DOBO is also in involved in on campus recruiting. Plus there is a ton of administrative stuff they do. It's a crucial role.

I'm glad he's getting another chance

 

[MADHAT1]

First step back , I won't say he doesn't deserve another chance based on edited videos .

 

[WGLTAUD]

There's a difference between yelling at a practice and berating a kid. They are not the same thing.