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QUOTES from the new head coach at UTEP, Tim Floyd at his introductory press conference....
First - he makes basically the same promise all coaches make - to be successful, and "win it all":
"so we’ll be trying to put together a squad and a team that can go win it all.
Everybody might say that’s crazy, you can’t do that today. Tell Butler that
right now. Tell George Mason that four years ago. I know it can happen and I
know it can happen here."
On the reason he walked away from his last job at USC:
"I left a place because I didn’t feel support from that place, I didn’t feel an
appreciation for what we had accomplished"
Then one reporter asks for more specifics about what went on at USC...
Here's the question:
"..the way you left at USC, certainly the NCAA and USC, after rule violations, can you comment on that?"
(Answer) COACH FLOYD:
"USC self-sanctioned the basketball program over institutional control violations.
I don’t want anybody to be confused with my leaving USC as an admission of guilt.
I chose not to try my case in the media, like many other people try to do things in today’s time. I left because of lack of support.
I chose to have my case heard where it should have been heard, with the NCAA....
...I knew that I had done nothing wrong."
Then a question about his contract and salary which he sidesteps...and acts like the amount he's being paid is completely irrelevant!
(Question): "You joke about the money. has there been any contract talks yet?"
(Answer) COACH FLOYD:
"I don’t know where all that is. ..at this point those things aren’t as important
to me as coaching and teaching and getting to the floor and working with
players, scheduling games, preparing for games. to me that’s what it’s all
about. all that other stuff will work itself out."
http://bit.ly/bQktyF
First - he makes basically the same promise all coaches make - to be successful, and "win it all":
"so we’ll be trying to put together a squad and a team that can go win it all.
Everybody might say that’s crazy, you can’t do that today. Tell Butler that
right now. Tell George Mason that four years ago. I know it can happen and I
know it can happen here."
On the reason he walked away from his last job at USC:
"I left a place because I didn’t feel support from that place, I didn’t feel an
appreciation for what we had accomplished"
Then one reporter asks for more specifics about what went on at USC...
Here's the question:
"..the way you left at USC, certainly the NCAA and USC, after rule violations, can you comment on that?"
(Answer) COACH FLOYD:
"USC self-sanctioned the basketball program over institutional control violations.
I don’t want anybody to be confused with my leaving USC as an admission of guilt.
I chose not to try my case in the media, like many other people try to do things in today’s time. I left because of lack of support.
I chose to have my case heard where it should have been heard, with the NCAA....
...I knew that I had done nothing wrong."
Then a question about his contract and salary which he sidesteps...and acts like the amount he's being paid is completely irrelevant!
(Question): "You joke about the money. has there been any contract talks yet?"
(Answer) COACH FLOYD:
"I don’t know where all that is. ..at this point those things aren’t as important
to me as coaching and teaching and getting to the floor and working with
players, scheduling games, preparing for games. to me that’s what it’s all
about. all that other stuff will work itself out."
http://bit.ly/bQktyF