Pretty good Howland article

[chriswnc]

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-bas...fornia-starkville-challenge-mississippi-state

 

[dickiedawg]

I enjoyed that. Brutal honesty.

 

[RingN2012]

Excellent article. Worth the read for sure. Got me excited

 

[dawgstudent]

"See what I mean?" he says. "See how nice people are? This is not Los Angeles."
No, it's not. It's Starkville. Welcome.

 

[patdog]

Very good article. And a brutal assessment of the coaching the team he inherited had gotten the last few years.

 

[tenureplan]

Don't be Raycist

 

[esplanade91]

I've been saying how badly coached this team has been, only to hear about how much hustle they had.

Ray was and is not a good coach, but I thank him for his contributions and wish him all the luck in the world.

I think this team is going to be night and day.

 

[patdog]

I agree. I like Rick Ray and I wish him well. But he was in way over his head. We should be both more talented and more fundamentally sound next season. I can start to watch MSU basketball again for the first time since the Sydney incident in Hawaii.

 

[DancingRabbit]

My WTF? was $1.08 for a beer.

Howland is awesome. Gonna be fun.

 

[Philly Dawg]

The thing is, Ray's teams at MSU didn't play any harder than anyone else.

 

[Jdog.sixpack]

Really nice article. Makes you look forward to the basketball season.

 

[esplanade91]

I'll go as far to say that they didn't have as much heart in it as previous teams. Stans' chain gang was bad, really bad even, but they had the desire to win. Enough not to stay out all night drinking the night before games.

Saying Ray's teams hustled is like your recently single friend dating a girl significantly less attractive than the girl he broke up with and saying "Yeah but she's REALLY cool!"