I don’t know. An opening statement is a given with these things isn’t it? He seems wildly unprepared.
Well people could be confused with the University of Central Lincroft Area, otherwise known as Brookdale Community College.
He was unprepared and just winging it, rather than lost his train of thought. He was searching for words to put together from the very start. You are allowed to bring note cards to these things, there's no written rule of no paper products at the podium.
Attention to detail was missing from one of the biggest press events of preseason. If this happened during Bob's backyard podcast, fine, who cares. But at B1G media day, prepare a little, because everyone's watching. DeShaun apparently didn't get that memo with his $3mil. check.
I think he froze, just my opinion. But he probably should have had the bullet points written on something to bail him out when he did freeze. Most folks I work with use their talking points or prepared remarks as a security blanket to avoid that situation.
Unfortunately, some folks think they are better at public speaking than they are. You don't want to sound too canned, but you should have something to fall back on up there to avoid embarrassing moments like this one.
Could you imagine if this was our coach? Half the board would be flipping out while the other half would be defending him with a bit of concern in the back of their minds.
Oh definitely. But I think that's one thing we don't have to worry about with GS.
