Richard Williams

[gymdawg.sixpack]

Why hasn't anyone mentioned his name yet?

 

[PineGroveBully]

I hate to say it but without Rick Stansbury at his helm then Richard Williams would be just another former coach.

Edited to add that without RS, nobody would have heard of one Dontae Jones, at least until Dantey Jones showed up in Durham. If yall havent I encourage yall to read "String Music". I believe Joe Dean Jr may have written or co-written it. Its about the rise of SEC basketball and breaks it down by school and kinda tells how each school got to where it was or in some schools wasnt in the early 2000s when then book was written. I doubt he is working on a sequel about the fall of basketball in the SEC in the decade since. Anyway, if memory serves me correctly, it details a conversation that then-assistant Stansbury had with Williams on a plane ride back from a game saying that he had found a kid on the streets of Nashville that would get CRW and MSU to the Final Four. It then tells how RS got him to coach Mike Lewis at Northeast to "get his grades in order" with the agreement that in return for RS getting him to NE on "loan" that ML would make sure that no one else came in and poached him and that he would end up at MSU.

 

[engie]

"Just another former coach" --- with a regular season SEC championship. Stansbury definitely gave Williams a shot in the arm, but that's about as far as I'm willing to go with that.

And no I don't want him as our next coach nor for him to get a serious look. He hasn't been a head coach in a decade and a half despite sticking around the game...

 

[PineGroveBully]

my point was that Williams doesnt do what he did without the players that Stans brought him, it was definitely not a shot at Williams coaching ability.