Coach Williams' Comments Regarding Davante Gardner

[mu03eng]

Or in a fire station.

Or a Fortune 500 company......ummm.....<slinks out of room>

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[JD]

Or McDonalds!

(chirp, chirp)

[wildbill sb]

Or a Fortune 500 company......ummm.....<slinks out of room>

Or in a ballet company.........so there!

[bilsu]

Is it this writer's reaction, or is Coach Williams offering some rather insensitive comments regarding Mr. Gardner?

Coach Williams, always is trying to be super-sentive, and usually prefaces his comments with statements like, "Don't mean this to be disrespectful ...", etc.

Yet, he refers to Davante Gardner, after his injury at Villinova, as something out of Sea World. Another time, Coach Williams said he could out-jump, out run and was in better shape than Gardner. Yesterday, Coach Williams indicated Mr. Gardner is just a fat guy who makes buckets.

Excuse me? Putting aside that Mr. Gardner also draws fouls, gets assists, rebounds, can shoot free throws, and seems to be particularly good in the proverbial clutch, these comments hardly seem sensitive, or supportive of one of your team members - an injured team member, no less.

Maybe, these comments were intended to be funny, where taken out of context, or are Coach Williams way of motiving Davante Gardner. However, coming from the Coach of a major college team (who also has a propensity towards chubbiness) seems, well, immature and insensitive ... particularly to an injured player.

It is bleeding hearts like you that prevent us from being called warriors.

[Dawson Rental]

I agree that Buzz does seem to knock the players personally quite a bit.  And he often degrades them as per his comments about Otule, Gardner and Crowder.  There is no need for the head coach to be knocking the players.  What's the point?  is that why he recruited Durley, so he can knock him.

Excellent comments.  You obviously know far more about what is happening with the MU basketball team and what needs to be done than Coach Williams.  I suggest that this board start an immediate petition drive to have Coach Williams replaced by yourself.

[Dawson Rental]

Is it this writer's reaction, or is Coach Williams offering some rather insensitive comments regarding Mr. Gardner?

Coach Williams, always is trying to be super-sentive, and usually prefaces his comments with statements like, "Don't mean this to be disrespectful ...", etc.

Yet, he refers to Davante Gardner, after his injury at Villinova, as something out of Sea World. Another time, Coach Williams said he could out-jump, out run and was in better shape than Gardner. Yesterday, Coach Williams indicated Mr. Gardner is just a fat guy who makes buckets.

Excuse me? Putting aside that Mr. Gardner also draws fouls, gets assists, rebounds, can shoot free throws, and seems to be particularly good in the proverbial clutch, these comments hardly seem sensitive, or supportive of one of your team members - an injured team member, no less.

Maybe, these comments were intended to be funny, where taken out of context, or are Coach Williams way of motiving Davante Gardner. However, coming from the Coach of a major college team (who also has a propensity towards chubbiness) seems, well, immature and insensitive ... particularly to an injured player.

If you had been tracking all of Coach Williams comments about Gardner, then you would have seen his comments where he said that he was very mean to Davante, even in front of his parents, when he was recruiting him.  so Davante has no reason to be surprised by the most recent comments.  I'm sure that Davante is well aware that Coach Williams wants him at a lower weight, so that he can be even more effective as a basketball player, and that these comments are his way of keeping the pressure on for him to do so.

[Benny B]

It's a sad world we live in where the people who cry outrage when someone calls another person a name are the same people who turn their heads when someone is getting beaten with sticks and stones.

[NickelDimer]

Ask JFB how buzz's "mistreatment" turned out for him

[Dawson Rental]

I posted the following in April of 2010 when Davante was being recruited.

"What scares me about the video is the woman holding the "Beware of the Dog" sign.  She's quite heavy, and if she were Davante's mother, it would seem to suggest that Davante grew up in a household where there were psychological issues regarding food.  (i.e eating to relieve boredom, over serving food as a sign of love by the parent, not overeating seen as a sign of rejection by the child)  If that's the case, then a nutritionist and trainer will have will not be able to get Davante's weight down without help from a weight counselor.  My perspective on this is from knowing of a situation concerning an obese teen who had stomach stapling surgery."

[Lennys Tap]

No time to reply, need to make trophies for everyone in my son's soccer league.  We're all winners!

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