What did Scoop learn from Brent?

[MikeDeanesDarkGlasses]

Now that I think about it.... wasn't Buzz raised by an uncle or had to take care of his blind grandfather or something?  I can't put my finger on what exactly it is, but I just remember hearing him in an interview talk about that.   

[keefe]

What I recall is his folks split up while he was a toddler. When his mother remarried he moved in with his father. I think the stepmom was ok but the stepdad was a nutter. I think that estranged him from his mother.

Amazing with the sting of rejection so prominent in his life that he would treat Taylor, JJJ, Newbill, et al the way he did. I get that the NBA is a business and so too is college ball but there is a difference in mentorship and stewardship in college that Bat seemed able to pick and choose his moments.

[MikeDeanesDarkGlasses]

What I recall is his folks split up while he was a toddler. When his mother remarried he moved in with his father. I think the stepmom was ok but the stepdad was a nutter. I think that estranged him from his mother.

Amazing with the sting of rejection so prominent in his life that he would treat Taylor, JJJ, Newbill, et al the way he did. I get that the NBA is a business and so too is college ball but there is a difference in mentorship and stewardship in college that Bat seemed able to pick and choose his moments.

From a psychological standpoint, Buzz may have never known the proper way to treat someone close to him.  This would lie in the fact that, he never had a permanent (positive) father figure present in his formative years.  It seems to me that Buzz is a tough love type of guy, but you must be ever so delicate when running an autocracy.  Punishment has its ways, but long term usage will uproot any message you try to convey.  Through observation, Buzz relied on punishment as his tool of reinforcement, but that planted the seeds of mutiny with this group that seemed to lack a leader all year. 

[keefe]

planted the seeds of mutiny with this group that seemed to lack a leader all year. 

[Scooter22]

Be careful with expectations...  character revealed and all...

[WI inferiority Complexes]

What did Scoop learn from Brent?

West Viginia plays that stupid song after every game, even if the team doesn't win.

[slingkong]

From a psychological standpoint, Buzz may have never known the proper way to treat someone close to him.  This would lie in the fact that, he never had a permanent (positive) father figure present in his formative years.  

Digressing quite a bit from the topic at hand, but I don't get the obsession with having positive *father* figure. Seems to me that it's more important to have a positive adult parental influence, period, whether it is a mother or father.

Also, go suck turkey necks Brett.

[CTWarrior]

I learned that I like it when we are playing in the second week of the NCAA tournament every year.

I already knew that the public personas of coaches are often very different from their private peronas, and that they are only faithful as long as something they like better doesn't come along.

[GooooMarquette]

From a psychological standpoint, Buzz may have never known the proper way to treat someone close to him.  This would lie in the fact that, he never had a permanent (positive) father figure present in his formative years.  It seems to me that Buzz is a tough love type of guy, but you must be ever so delicate when running an autocracy.  Punishment has its ways, but long term usage will uproot any message you try to convey.  Through observation, Buzz relied on punishment as his tool of reinforcement, but that planted the seeds of mutiny with this group that seemed to lack a leader all year.  

Bingo!

No stable or nurturing family life -> fear of loss/rejection -> coping strategies (need to always be in control, push others away before they push you away, etc).

Psych 101.  

But I thought his name was Burt?