Good stuff
http://mobile.nj.com/advnj/pm_29222/contentdetail.htm;jsessionid=895AFA7CB166D7AD7846B0EEDBD9B93A?contentguid=9EDBr1Wu
+1 - Nice find Chicos...keeping it fair and balanced.
Key quotes:
"And I tell our kids, I've told everybody: 'I'm living the dream 1,075 days into being the head coach at Marquette, bigger than any I've ever had as a kid.' And I'm unbelievably humbled and grateful for the opportunity."
"He wakes up every morning, part nervous, part scared, part hasn't-had-enough-sleep," Layer said. "It puts him on an edge that has allowed him to overcome the fact that he didn't play college basketball. Doesn't have roots in some family tree of coaches that everybody knows. He's done everything to get a chance and he doesn't want to blow it."
Great article. Love the quotes from McCarter in there.
Quote from: brewcity77 on March 24, 2011, 09:59:32 AM
Great article. Love the quotes from McCarter in there.
They quoted Freeway?
Bong.
Quote from: reinko on March 24, 2011, 10:10:33 AM
They quoted Freeway?
Bong.
The immortal Michael McCarter?!! Hilarious.
"It's more of a drive to succeed, rather than a fear of failure," said Layer, who was an assistant under Williams at Marquette in 2008-09. "But it's probably 68 percent to 32 percent."
This is my favorite quote, totally something Buzz would throw out there, and I am guessing Layer was trying to give a poke at Buzz's crazy statistics mind.