With all the talk about Lloyd Moore -I had to look it up.
Seems Tom Young was quite the disciplinarian - if Tom had stayed he would have gotten Lloyd in shape.
NYT article from back in the day:
RUTGERS GETTING THE GOOD WORD
Special to the New York Times
Published: November 28, 1985
PISCATAWAY, N.J., Nov. 27— Rutgers had just won its opening game of the season, by 78-70 over Fairleigh Dickinson Monday night. Darren Campbell, still in his red and white uniform, sat on a bench in a spare locker room in the Rutgers Athletic Center, talking about the man who has been his basketball coach for just two and a half months.
The words that Campbell chose indicated that the coach had already gained the confidence of the players on this Rutgers team, which lost four starters from last season's 16-14 squad.
Campbell, a starting guard, said his new coach was an easy motivator, that he didn't raise his voice very often, but had to say just a few words and the pace of practice quickened.
''In past years, it took more than that,'' Campbell said. ''It took those steps.''
A Form of Discipline
The steps were a form of discipline used by Tom Young, who coached Rutgers for 12 years before leaving for Old Dominion in August. When a player made a mistake in practice, Young would have him run the steps of the arena. ''As a junior, you don't want to run those steps anymore,'' Campbell said. No one runs them anymore. Craig Littlepage, who accepted the Rutgers job in early September after coaching for three years at Penn, takes a different approach in teaching players.
''I think I do as much yelling and screaming as anybody,'' Littlepage said, today, as he sat in his office in the Athletic Center. ''But I follow that with a word of encouragement. Years ago, when a coach would go to a film session and just point out all the bad things his team had done in a game, the players would just cringe. We try to give positive reinforcement.''
The 34-year-old Littlepage, who played under Dick Harter and Chuck Daly at Penn in the early 70's, and worked as an assistant under Rollie Massimino at Villanova and Terry Holland at Virginia before taking the head coaching job at Penn, does not offer encouragement to his players just to be a nice guy. A psychology professor at the University of Virginia explained to Littlepage and the rest of the Cavalier staff that positive reinforcement from coaches would mean more victories.
His players understand that. ''Coach Page is a lot more personal than Coach Young was,'' said Lloyd Moore, the team's center and its only returning starter. ''And I think it's carrying over on to the basketball court.''
Young and Inexperienced
How far the good feeling established by Littlepage goes this season remains to be seen because the Scarlet Knights are young and relatively inexperienced.
There are no seniors on the 11-man team and the starting backcourt consists of two juniors, Campbell and Steve Brown. Both players averaged less than 3 points a game last season.
Neither can fill the void left by John Battle, who led the Atlantic 10 Conference in scoring the last two seasons and is now playing for the Atlanta Hawks.
''It's more 11 men than the 5 starters this year,'' Moore said. ''Coach has structured the offense to be more team-oriented. He calls it 'passing something good around.' ''
Littlepage, who coached Penn to the Ivy League championship last winter, also has his own methods of discipline.
''If we're not satisfied with the way practice is going, we'll blow the whistle and start over from the beginning, right from the stretching out,'' the coach said. ''A couple of times, we've stopped practice an hour in and started over. The next step is kicking them out and bringing them back the next day at 6 in the morning.''
Those steps were not needed Monday night, when Rutgers trailed by 31-30 at the half but came back to win. What did Littlepage say to his players at halftime?
''He really jumped our butts,'' Moore said. ''But he did it in such a way that we wanted to go out and play harder.''
Seems Tom Young was quite the disciplinarian - if Tom had stayed he would have gotten Lloyd in shape.
NYT article from back in the day:
RUTGERS GETTING THE GOOD WORD
Special to the New York Times
Published: November 28, 1985
PISCATAWAY, N.J., Nov. 27— Rutgers had just won its opening game of the season, by 78-70 over Fairleigh Dickinson Monday night. Darren Campbell, still in his red and white uniform, sat on a bench in a spare locker room in the Rutgers Athletic Center, talking about the man who has been his basketball coach for just two and a half months.
The words that Campbell chose indicated that the coach had already gained the confidence of the players on this Rutgers team, which lost four starters from last season's 16-14 squad.
Campbell, a starting guard, said his new coach was an easy motivator, that he didn't raise his voice very often, but had to say just a few words and the pace of practice quickened.
''In past years, it took more than that,'' Campbell said. ''It took those steps.''
A Form of Discipline
The steps were a form of discipline used by Tom Young, who coached Rutgers for 12 years before leaving for Old Dominion in August. When a player made a mistake in practice, Young would have him run the steps of the arena. ''As a junior, you don't want to run those steps anymore,'' Campbell said. No one runs them anymore. Craig Littlepage, who accepted the Rutgers job in early September after coaching for three years at Penn, takes a different approach in teaching players.
''I think I do as much yelling and screaming as anybody,'' Littlepage said, today, as he sat in his office in the Athletic Center. ''But I follow that with a word of encouragement. Years ago, when a coach would go to a film session and just point out all the bad things his team had done in a game, the players would just cringe. We try to give positive reinforcement.''
The 34-year-old Littlepage, who played under Dick Harter and Chuck Daly at Penn in the early 70's, and worked as an assistant under Rollie Massimino at Villanova and Terry Holland at Virginia before taking the head coaching job at Penn, does not offer encouragement to his players just to be a nice guy. A psychology professor at the University of Virginia explained to Littlepage and the rest of the Cavalier staff that positive reinforcement from coaches would mean more victories.
His players understand that. ''Coach Page is a lot more personal than Coach Young was,'' said Lloyd Moore, the team's center and its only returning starter. ''And I think it's carrying over on to the basketball court.''
Young and Inexperienced
How far the good feeling established by Littlepage goes this season remains to be seen because the Scarlet Knights are young and relatively inexperienced.
There are no seniors on the 11-man team and the starting backcourt consists of two juniors, Campbell and Steve Brown. Both players averaged less than 3 points a game last season.
Neither can fill the void left by John Battle, who led the Atlantic 10 Conference in scoring the last two seasons and is now playing for the Atlanta Hawks.
''It's more 11 men than the 5 starters this year,'' Moore said. ''Coach has structured the offense to be more team-oriented. He calls it 'passing something good around.' ''
Littlepage, who coached Penn to the Ivy League championship last winter, also has his own methods of discipline.
''If we're not satisfied with the way practice is going, we'll blow the whistle and start over from the beginning, right from the stretching out,'' the coach said. ''A couple of times, we've stopped practice an hour in and started over. The next step is kicking them out and bringing them back the next day at 6 in the morning.''
Those steps were not needed Monday night, when Rutgers trailed by 31-30 at the half but came back to win. What did Littlepage say to his players at halftime?
''He really jumped our butts,'' Moore said. ''But he did it in such a way that we wanted to go out and play harder.''
