....and told us not to worry about the phone, just go out and play!" - Simpson
Following the NW loss lololol!!! Love it!!
Following the NW loss lololol!!! Love it!!
"Coach broke his phone with a hammer...."
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I love it!
btw, pretty sure @Scarlet Shack been saying the team needs to do this for a few years...lol
Stay the course and keep pounding .
Simpson was nails on the Court and in the post game B1G interview.
Yes !!!!!
Mo
Simpson was nails on the Court and in the post game B1G interview.
Yes !!!!!
Mo
Lofl incredible interview with Simpson just now.
I can’t believe.
Pike said “f it!! This is the only thing we haven’t tried.”
Pike said “f it!! This is the only thing we haven’t tried.”
Coach Pikiell pushing, I mean breaking the right buttons haha.
I have a very old discarded Nokia that I never got rid of. I promise to smash it if we beat Purdue. I will only smash my current Samsung if we win the tourney.
Forget the nails, Pike is now pounding telephones
Loved that story! Simpson seems like a fun, good kid. Played a great game and his future is bright.
A Nokie? Use a sledgehammer, those things are tough
My advice on phones/social media for the players.
First.. don't look. But if you do look.. TAKE the constructive criticism to heart.. see if there is something to learn there.. ask a coach to evaluate it if think there might be something useful revealed.
EVERYTHING ELSE... the blowing sunshine up your butt or throwing the rotten fruit at you... IGNORE IT.. FORGET IT. It has zero value.
OH.. I think Pike smashing the phone was about waiting for a call from the selection committee.. worrying about that... not about social media. But thinking now.. that did not make sense.. they see the selection on TV.
First.. don't look. But if you do look.. TAKE the constructive criticism to heart.. see if there is something to learn there.. ask a coach to evaluate it if think there might be something useful revealed.
EVERYTHING ELSE... the blowing sunshine up your butt or throwing the rotten fruit at you... IGNORE IT.. FORGET IT. It has zero value.
OH.. I think Pike smashing the phone was about waiting for a call from the selection committee.. worrying about that... not about social media. But thinking now.. that did not make sense.. they see the selection on TV.
“ we no longer pound nails, we hammer phones!!!”
I love stories like this. Could become his calling card. A new tradition perhaps? SMASH THAT PHONE!
Hopefully a Dylan commit text didn't get missed. 😂
I hope they don’t try to learn anything from us message board geniuses. Trust Pike to coach the team. Not kyk
I really hate the way some of our fans talk about our players. I've heard all manner of rationalizations made by the supposed adults who post insulting crap about players. But there is no valid excuse for anybody, especially a fan, to insult a player that's having a bad game. It's childish, classless, pure asshole behavior.
He must be reading the boneheads in Game Day Threads...lol
Ignore the phones yes. But even if looking, they should largely ignore everything that isn't supportive.
They should focus on informed constructive criticism (i.e. primarily from the coaching staff plus maybe a little bit from teammates ) and ignore everybody else. Because (a) uninformed constructive criticism is based on incomplete and quite likely incorrect information - the garbage in, garbage out principle applies, and (b) at some point, too much constructive criticism ceases to be constructive and becomes counterproductive.
Anything a fan can accurately observe will be observed more accurately by the coaching staff or teammates. And those people know, far better than any fan could possibly know, if a specific bit of criticism should be stated or, as is often the case, go unstated.
At best, fan-oriented criticism will be totally redundant.
Or twitter morons, of which there are far too many.
What this world needs is a good pandemic, thin the herd a bit.
What? Too soon?
I 1000% agree with this take.
People on message boards , social media or even in the stands - calling players out. Even if professional. 95% of you , including myself , have never dedicated yourself so much to something as much as these players do. Especially the ones we have in our program. They sacrifice a lot (and get a lot) but nobody wants it more than them.
My first phone from the ‘90s…
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You probably would need a sledgehammer to do that to it.
Bless them for their commitment to excellence and continuing to believe. You’re only this young once young men. Aim for the stars
I worked at a store that sold those. They were bullet proof.My first phone from the ‘90s…
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You probably would need a sledgehammer to do that to it.
I think you would use one of them as a hammer.
I was joshing you knucklehead.
Pike did not seem too pleased with the hammering of the cell phone incident getting out to the media. In the post game interview session, he is unaware of how it got out. By now I’m sure he’s aware of Derek’s mention. I’m sure he will excuse Derek haha.
Then at the end of the interview when asked how he kept the team relaxed (or something along those lines), he responded “by smashing cell phones” which was quite funny.
Then at the end of the interview when asked how he kept the team relaxed (or something along those lines), he responded “by smashing cell phones” which was quite funny.
Pike’s phone has its own Twitter account
C’mon, coaches will do many things to fire a team up. No different than running on the field with an axe and making the chop motion. It’s all good
