It is hard to tell whether he was a good coach or not. He didn’t do so well at recruiting, and that is the biggest factor in PAC 12 basketball. His teams played hard and were never pushovers (my view as a UW fan). He never made an ass out of himself. I think we should judge him on his own merits rather than assume he is guilty by association.
I agree with your post but the fact that Oregon athletics got a piece of the stimulus bill makes one wonder.
***He never made an ass out of himself. ***
A friend’s son played for him at Brown, and has reported that he totally mistreated only the white players. He was verbally and physically abusive towards them.
On Wikipedia, they call that “tough love” instead of reverse racism.
The kid quit and switched to baseball, and was much happier. He has not one good thing to say about Coach Robinson.
I asked a friend who is into OSU sports if she had any inside info as to what was going on. Here’s what she told me:
A couple of thing—the fans and donors have been wanting Robinson’s head for 2-3 years. Attendance has declined to just over 3000 per game in a facility that holds close to 11,000 and ticket sales and donations continue to decline. I feel certain DeCarolis (Athletics Director) has met with lots if anger from the big donors and angry fans. Over the last 3 years several players have left the program and transferred to another school. At the end of this past season (in March) we lost five senior starters and last week two more players left after DeCarolis had earlier announced Robinson was staying. Always when a player leaves the paper says they were homesick, their grandmother is sick and they want to be closer. All kinds of bs excuses. The fact is most don’t like him nor like playing for him. He is not a nice man. Also recently junior Eric Moreland left to try for the NBA draft, rather than coming back for his senior year. DeCarolis said the decision was just his and no one else’s but I don’t believe it. I’ve been calling DeCarolis for 3 years. He had way too much pressure from people and could see the writing on the wall as to how bad list revenue would be.
DeCarolis said he called Robinson Thursday night. It became public very early Monday morning, and by afternoon Oregon state had $3 million in federal pell grants taken. Obama didn’t waste any time getting revenge.