In reply to: We're Now in the Age of "Snowplow" Parenting posted by dillon77
make the same comments at an ND luncheon in Chicago. She also had some funny comments about Geno.
That things can get kind of bumpy, especially at first, that the pressure can seem like too much sometimes, and that they will likely go through periods of feeling miserable, but that they need to hang in there, not lose confidence in themselves, and trust the coaches and the people around them. I can remember feeling pretty miserable myself at times, especially during that first year, and I did not have to deal with anything close to the pressure they must feel. I can easily imagine it getting pretty bad, and making a person want to escape.
Both head coaches and assistant coaches. In many cases, individual players have closer relationships to the assistants than they have with the head coach.
I know for a fact that both ND basketball programs spend a lot of time on personal development as well as basketball development, and both have a philosophy of having young players learn to be leaders from the older ones so they will be prepared to lead when their time comes. The year by year progression is part of the program.
Nevertheless, Notre Dame's academic program, ND's social life and campus rules, Muffet McGraw, and/or Mike Brey aren't a great fit for everyone; and if one or more of those aren't clicking with a player, having to be patient for playing time to become available will make the decision to transfer all the more appealing.
Unless a player goes public with specific reasons, speculating why is a worthless exercise.
..coming off the transfer of Dani Paterson and imminent one of Jordan Nixon, along with this article, it's reassuring to not only read Coach Brey on his comments and programs, but here it from you.
Not at all they're working to get on top of this situation, which is hard because parameters, processes and pressures keep realigning. On top of that, like you said, one sometimes never knows why a young adult choose to leave or stay.
Thanks again.
Go Irish!
The high school sports associations in Southern California have almost given up stemming the amount of athletic transfers, especially in football and boys basketball. I don't recall if any of our transfers moved around in high school, but there is certainly a transfer mentality that's growing and even an "AAU" mentality of players.
that one or both Mabreys transferred, and perhaps Mik Vaughan.
Mik played at a pretty small private school and, quite candidly, transferred to powerhouse Paul VI in northern Va. to play against better competition, both in practice and in games.
Marina's switch was a tad more complex. After winning the Tournament of Champions (TOC) in New Jersey as a freshman on a team that was led by older sister, Michaela, the Manasquan Public Schools got into a squabble with the coach (I'm guessing there was an AAU component to it.)
Marina and the other major returning star, Katelynn Flaherty, left to play for an even smaller Jersey Shore conference public school, Pt. Pleasant Beach. They helped lead this team from a losing record to the Tournament of Champions tournament. Afterwards, Mabrey returned to Manasquan, where she won a second TOC title as a senior, joined by younger sister, Dara. Flaherty transferred to Metuchen for her senior year (her father went there), before heading to Michigan and having a stellar career. Her position coach there for three years was former Irish PG Megan Duffy, now head coach at Marquette.
In a similar vein to Southern California, you see all sorts of transfers in Jersey, usually involving men's basketball and football. However, it occurs in girls hoops, too, as this story says.