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[SycamoreFanatic]

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Had to share this with you folks on the most active board in the Valley. Didn't know this but apparently Royce Waltman didn't think much of Coach Les?

Good luck and hope for a good hire for your future.

[Da Coach]

Fits with some stories we've heard before about Waltman.

[TylerDurden]

Waltman didn't think Les had paid his dues as a coach since he didn't come up through the assistant ranks like many others.

[Da Coach]

I have heard Royce is a lot more friendly and congenial now that he is out of college coaching. He did some radio color broadcasting this past year, and is now an assistant high school coach in Indianapolis. FWIH, when he was at Indiana State, he did not make many friends, including his own bosses.

[tornado]

Royce cursed out some folks at Indiana State when he got canned...but in his defense...a few of the kids who just won the MVC title were Royce recruits (Martin, Printy, Carter)...


Royce also made this famous statement...
"I can’t get a head coaching job. … If you get fired for cheating, you can get hired right back again.
If you get fired for losing, it’s like you’ve got leprosy, so young coaches need to bear that in mind.
Cheating and not graduating players will not get you in trouble, but that dam*ned losing. …"

[srw]

Guys..

Im sure everyone knows..It matters not what Royce thinks...

Best Wishes to him
Best Wishes to JL

Royce fit a profile of a certain type of coach, who of course felt frustrated by the JL hire.


JL probably didnt like old men like Royce.

BU needs to make a great hire for BU

[tornado]

I have told this story before..but I sat right at the end of the Indiana State bench for one game at the Valley tourney 5 years ago and I would NEVER do it again!!
Royce and his antics and language were horrible, embarrassing, and so totally inappropriate that I never understood how his school continued to employ him and how the refs gave him a pass on all his "fu**er", "motherf*****", "c**t" and "****sucker" expletives...

Several other fans nearby, especially those who had kids -- got up and left to find seating elsewhere...and yet it was all so totally uncalled for as Royce & his squad were totally blown out by the Shockers.
But then, when Turgeon inserted a walk-on kid and he launched a 3-pointer in the final 30 seconds when WSU led by 20, Royce had a total meltdown. He cursed clear across the court at Turg, Elgin, the refs, and anyone else in earshot.
It was perhaps the single most irrational, immature & childish rant I have ever seen by any adult and the most intentional effort to spew the foulest language possible that I was embarrassed for the nearby Sycamore fans and for pretty much the whole Valley.
I was not saddened when Royce got canned the next year.