Being utterly incompetent as a basketball coach isn't a character flaw but it's 100% grounds for termination as a basketball coach. Keep in mind how low the bar can be when it comes to coaches.
I don't think Fox handled the struggle well at all but he ran a scandal-free albeit poorly-coached program with players who seem like decent human…
Being utterly incompetent as a basketball coach isn't a character flaw but it's 100% grounds for termination as a basketball coach. Keep in mind how low the bar can be when it comes to coaches.
I don't think Fox handled the struggle well at all but he ran a scandal-free albeit poorly-coached program with players who seem like decent human beings....that had an embarrassingly bad W/L record. He's not remotely in the same moral universe as the low-character guys on this list.
Avoiding scandals doesn't make you a high-character guy. The term high-character guy is pretty vague, but one attribute I would think a person would have to have to be considered one is the ability to uplift those around them. My general understanding from watching him coach was that Mark Fox did not uplift his player. Obviously that can be hard with a losing record but he seemed to be angry and with excuses sitting in his back pocket, instead of trying to teach and coach his players. Coaches are educators, and he seemed to be a pretty poor one.
I think we just have different definitions/bars/cutoffs but agree that Fox was absolutely not effective as a coach or a motivator. You can trust your kids with him as long as he's not trying to teach them basketball.
Being utterly incompetent as a basketball coach isn't a character flaw but it's 100% grounds for termination as a basketball coach. Keep in mind how low the bar can be when it comes to coaches.
I don't think Fox handled the struggle well at all but he ran a scandal-free albeit poorly-coached program with players who seem like decent human beings....that had an embarrassingly bad W/L record. He's not remotely in the same moral universe as the low-character guys on this list.
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1342175-college-basketball-power-ranking-the-20-scandals-that-rocked-the-cbb-universe
Avoiding scandals doesn't make you a high-character guy. The term high-character guy is pretty vague, but one attribute I would think a person would have to have to be considered one is the ability to uplift those around them. My general understanding from watching him coach was that Mark Fox did not uplift his player. Obviously that can be hard with a losing record but he seemed to be angry and with excuses sitting in his back pocket, instead of trying to teach and coach his players. Coaches are educators, and he seemed to be a pretty poor one.
I think we just have different definitions/bars/cutoffs but agree that Fox was absolutely not effective as a coach or a motivator. You can trust your kids with him as long as he's not trying to teach them basketball.