coach lowry on Hare, Taylor & the rest of the siu team

[KillerB]

http://siusalukis.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/101909aac.html

[Braves4Life]

I like the tone that Lowery has set at SIU. I have more respect for him now after reading this interview. I said I thought Diamond Taylor was a respectful and well-spoken kid. I think he will stay straight under Lowery and will have the potential to be an MVC stud.

[tornado]

A couple interesting comments...
although he says he loves Hare like a son, he quickly points out that Hare had a whole series of violations...
..he says that Ryan's latest violations came while..
"he was already suspended anyway"
and
"It was a series of things"

then he says why he delayed so long in actually issuing the penalties until finally Hare had corssed the line ..
"We didn't want him to leave"
"You never want to lose good players"
and that the other players didn't want Hare gone...
"they wanted him to play, because we would have been extremely deep with Ryan."
and
"it's always hard".."when you lose a guy who started most of the games as a true freshman and was a great contributor"


so Lowery makes it clear that had Hare not been a good player or "great contributor"...then he'd have likely been gone long ago...
Lowery certainly seems to dwell heavily on how booting Hare was so hard because of the impact to the rest of the team...he
suggests the main crux of the decision was based more on how hard it was to lose a key player than on what was actually the appropriate punishment.
CLo says...the real reason he hung on through the entire "series of things" was because he was a "You never want to lose good players".

[lake Camelot]

Handled Correctly

I also liked his comments. I don't think he handled it much different than most coaches would. I think you are unfairly picking out individual comments to fit you argument that he is too lenient to a good player.

[tornado]

maybe, but I am not the only one.....many thoughts expressed on the Saluki board reflect that a ton of Saluki fans feel the same way...
that had Hare been a bench player or a walk on he'd have been booted long ago..
but was given extra chance after extra chance because Lowery needed his talent, and didn't want to have yet another sub-.500 season.
There are also a whole lot of fans that also feel replacing Hare with yet another troubled kid facing felony charges also speaks for wanting talent ahead of good character..

[DannyCooksey]

Lowery handled this exactly how the VAST majority of coaches would have. I do not fault him at all. Right or wrong there is pressure to win and a talented player is going to get more chances. Period. That's a fact and it happens in life everywhere. The talented, good looking, connected by name, the wealthy, the privileged all get more chances than the average or the unattractive, or the lower class, not as talented etc. Been that way since the beginning of time and this is another example.

Ray Brown was supposedly talented also. Didn't he receive multiple chances to straighten himself out? DeAaron Williams?? How about Jeremy Fears?? Or were those scenarios "different"?

[jeffsu]

Lowery handled this exactly how the VAST majority of coaches would have. I do not fault him at all. Right or wrong there is pressure to win and a talented player is going to get more chances. Period. That's a fact and it happens in life everywhere. The talented, good looking, connected by name, the wealthy, the privileged all get more chances than the average or the unattractive, or the lower class, not as talented etc. Been that way since the beginning of time and this is another example.

Can't believe I'm going to agree with an ISU fan. Ugh.

[Braves4Life]

Can't believe I'm going to agree with an ISU fan. Ugh.

Ditto