Kudos to BYU's Dave Rose
From ESPN's Doug Gottlieb:
Major props, respect and "shugs" (half handshake, half hug) to Dave Rose at Brigham Young. BYU was 9-21 last year, and Steve Cleveland left to take the Fresno State job. Rose, a long time juco head coach at Dixie State and an assistant at BYU prior to taking over, has only one senior on his roster but has run off eight of nine in the MWC. BYU was picked dead last by the media and in the coaches' polls, but will finish (if the Cougars can beat Colorado State and New Mexico, both at home) tied for second place, with 20 wins overall.
Freshman Trent Plaisted has 11 consecutive double-digit scoring games, but maybe more impressive was Rose's early-season decision to bring Austin Ainge off the bench. As the son the of the greatest player in the history of BYU (Danny Ainge), Ainge came in with a lot of hype, but after realizing he was a role player, Rose made the gutsy move to do what was right, even if it was not that popular early on.
posted by Barney at 11:42 PM
1 Comments:
I know I am a bit late on this post, but kudos to Doug Gottlieb on this one. He hit it right on the head with this one. When Rose was down here with Dixie, he lacked a real sense of bench coaching. The guy could always recruit and the players liked him, but he was never a real technician on the bench. He left Dixie and went and got a lot of bench coaching tudoring from Steve Cleveland and I think it has paid dividends this year; especially in the second half of games. I also applaud the Ainge decision, but having Brock Reichner, a walk-on and his own son-in-law, start was a big decision as well. I also like the way he has platooned Malaman and Cummard depending on what the game situation has been. Definitely the coach of the year in the MWC with all of my apologies to Jeff Bzdelik.
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