Garside drank coaches kool-aid

[Webergrad02]

I guess when you hear the same line 15 times after every game you start to believe it. Check out the lead line from Brandon's story. "MISSOULA -- Weber State brought their youth and inexperience right at the Montana Grizzlies, taking the Big Sky Conference Tournament’s top seed into overtime."

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I would argue that when it comes to tournament games we are not that young and inexperienced. 74% of our minutes last night were played by players that played in the conference tournament and NCAA tournament last year. Joel played in all of the win or go home CIT games and had 12 points 9 rebounds in our loss in the tournament championship at Montana in 2013. James has played a little and cheered a lot during tournament games. Our guys went out calm and focused last night. Why has everything been about "youth and inexperience" this season? Most of these kids have been on the team for 61 + games. It is almost like we are making excuses for them.

How about a lead in of "Jeremy Senglin took his broken jaw straight at the Montana Grizzlies and gave the #1 seed everything they could handle for 45 minutes." Senglin doesn't look young and inexperienced neither do most of the guys who have been there before.

 

[Itiger]

Rahe is the master at framing the conversation about his team! He is the king of coach speak and it's only natural for reporters to buy into the picture that Rahe draws for them! It's not really kool aid..... It's more like crack!

 

[hawkssb04]

I guess when you hear the same line 15 times after every game you start to believe it. Check out the lead line from Brandon's story. "MISSOULA -- Weber State brought their youth and inexperience right at the Montana Grizzlies, taking the Big Sky Conference Tournament’s top seed into overtime."

http://www.standard.net/Sports/2015/03/12/WSU-vs-UM.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I would argue that when it comes to tournament games we are not that young and inexperienced. 74% of our minutes last night were played by players that played in the conference tournament and NCAA tournament last year. Joel played in all of the win or go home CIT games and had 12 points 9 rebounds in our loss in the tournament championship at Montana in 2013. James has played a little and cheered a lot during tournament games. Our guys went out calm and focused last night. Why has everything been about "youth and inexperience" this season? Most of these kids have been on the team for 61 + games. It is almost like we are making excuses for them.

How about a lead in of "Jeremy Senglin took his broken jaw straight at the Montana Grizzlies and gave the #1 seed everything they could handle for 45 minutes." Senglin doesn't look young and inexperienced neither do most of the guys who have been there before.

Sigh... Garside tries hard, but he has a hard time crawling out of WSU coaches' buttholes. I try to cut him some slack, because he has no formal training in writing. The Standard-Examiner doesn't hire real journalists anymore. They just snag cheap labor through WSU's broadcasting students (graduated or not), grinding them into the ground until they wash out. The turnover rate over there has been astronomical during the past two years.