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[Rick Reily] Someone Stop This Man (Yates' Greg Wise)

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  1. ryan17wagner

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    I am not generally a spiteful man. I pat toddlers' haircuts, donate to the glee club and mostly greet the world with open arms.

    But when I think of coach Greg Wise of Houston's Yates High School, I become darker than Johnny Cash's closet.

    The things I would like to do to Coach Wise would curl an executioner's toes. For starters, I'd like to see him dipped in seal butter and dropped into a polar bear's cage.

    Coach Wise is the hammerhead who believes it's his right to toast other basketball teams by 100 points. Sometimes more. He thumped Lee High School this season by 135 points, 170-35. Wise's team was up at the half, 100-12. And full-court pressed to the very end!

    Wise is to sportsmanship what tsunamis are to beach chairs. So far this season, he's beaten teams by 135, 115, 99 (twice), 98, 90 and 88 points. Trying to get to 100 points in a crushing of Westbury, his players intentionally fouled to stop the clock.

    I'd like to clock him.

    If Wise doesn't stop, somebody's going to get hurt. In a Feb. 20 home game, Wise refused to pull his foot off the accelerator in a 132-68 fricasseeing of Booker T. Washington. Nobody likes to be humiliated, and this includes fans. Like at some of Yates' games, there was fighting. This time it happened in the parking lot afterward. Shots were fired, though nobody was hurt. This time.

    What's it going to take for Houston Independent School District officials to stop Wise? Or suspend him? What's it going to take before Yates principal Ronald Mumphery grows a pair and disciplines his coach? Somebody dying? "These are tough kids from a tough part of town," says Jacques Armant, coach at Lee, which also lost to Yates by 99. "Beatings like this can turn out to be real dangerous."

    At the very least, USA Today ought to remove Yates from its national rankings -- the school is No. 1 -- as a statement about basic sports decency. That'd be the un-Wise thing to do.

    This is not war. This is not the pros. There's no bonus for belittling young men in front of their parents and girlfriends. These kids are getting their pants yanked down in front of the whole playground. They don't deserve it.

    "A lot of my kids went into a kind of depression after [losing by 135]," says Armant. "They thought the game was over, but when you turn on your radio and every deejay is saying how you got beat for an all-time record, it hurts. I took one kid home, and he said, 'Coach, can you please turn the radio off? I can't take it anymore.'"

    On second thought, I'd like Wise to spend a day as a speed bump in the Lee parking lot.

    I was unable to reach Wise or Principal Mumphery, but Wise has defended himself by saying he practices pressing and trapping, and that doing anything else during the game would be bad coaching. He's said that all 15 of his players -- 11 of them seniors -- play. "The [third string] deserves the chance to play hard and compete too," Wise has said.

    Yes, those kids deserve to play hard and compete -- every day in scrimmages against the best team in Texas. In games against schools with no chance, they need to back off. Basketball isn't Greg Wise's personal vanity mirror. He needs to say, "We're going to work on passing. Anyone shoots and they're running stairs at the Astrodome."

    But Wise won't say that because Wise is about Wise. He's after records. He wants teenage scalps. He tried to break the record for most 100-point games in a row (and failed). He did set the state record for points in one game (170).

    And I wouldn't be surprised if he goes for the national record of 211. If he gets it, I hope they add an *:

    *Set by Yates High School, Classless of 2010.


    http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=reilly_rick&id=4977305
     
    #1 ryan17wagner, Mar 10, 2010
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  3. Pistol Pete

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    No, he isn't. Greg Wise is an ass.
     
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  4. DonnyMost

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    It's not about whether or not I agree with the article, its that a flame war seems inevitable... or at least it has been on the 2 other BBS's where I've seen this discussed.
     
    #4 DonnyMost, Mar 10, 2010
  5. TheFreak

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    Is this true?
     
    #5 TheFreak, Mar 10, 2010
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    First of all, who is Rick Reilly?

    Is he the guy that does those specials that bring players back to their high school gym...I think I saw one on Chris Paul and Dwayne Wade?

    Is he that guy?

    If so, get this crap outta here.
     
    #6 Smokey, Mar 10, 2010
  7. Blake

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    repped
     
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  8. macho GRANDE

    macho GRANDE Elvis, was a hero to most but................

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    **** you Rick Reilly.

    Jerk.


    And BTW, JY just tied the record for most 100 point games in a row (hopefully will surpass it tomorrow).
     
    #8 macho GRANDE, Mar 10, 2010
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    I don't know anything about fouling while ahead, but I know Ryan17Wagner's posting style, and I know Greg Wise.

    His son Nic is a year younger than me, and attended Mustang Basketball Camp annually as I did, where his dad was an instructor. He taught me to rebound. The things Ryan17Wagner says about him shows you more about Ryan than about Coach Wise. The man is a class act, and only guilty of building an extremely successful basketball program.

    Nic is now the starting PG at Arizona. Truly the greatest player I ever played with. Insane combination of strength and speed. I always thought of Baron Davis.

    Ryan I would love to see you say anything like this to Greg. But then you might have to move under a different bridge.
     
    #9 shipwreck, Mar 10, 2010
  10. macho GRANDE

    macho GRANDE Elvis, was a hero to most but................

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    I don't know but I highly doubt it. I'm sure it would have made headlines all over the city like the thrashing of Lee did.
     
    #10 macho GRANDE, Mar 10, 2010
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    You are correct, there are fools who will vehemently defend a coach who has no regard for teaching his players sportmanship.
     
    #11 Pistol Pete, Mar 10, 2010
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    Meanwhile...back on the farm...

    1.Ryan posted someone else's words.
    2 Many people are saying the same things to Wise and aren't having to switch housing arrangements.
    3 The guy is pressing when up by extreme margins and that is not something a "class act" would do.
     
    #12 Pistol Pete, Mar 10, 2010
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    You "highly doubt" that a team full-court pressing when up by 130 points would intentionally foul another team to try to get to 100 points? Seriously?
     
    #13 TheFreak, Mar 10, 2010
  14. Cannonball

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    Dude, Ryan just posted a Reilly OpEd piece. Seeing as how Yates running up the score has been debated on here before, this is an appropriate topic.
     
    #14 Cannonball, Mar 10, 2010
  15. macho GRANDE

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    Yes. Seriously.
    Let's not go around in circles on this one. I'm gonna say that their 3rd stringers should be able to go out and play the style of ball that they are taught and you'll probably reply with them being bad sports.

    My point was that I don't believe that it could have happened without the local media, Facebook, Twitter, SportsCenter, ATH, PTI, 1st and Ten, and every other show on ESPN yappin about it.
     
    #15 macho GRANDE, Mar 10, 2010
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    If they can be up by 130 while having scored less than 100, they're even better than I thought.
     
    #16 The Drake, Mar 10, 2010
  17. ryan17wagner

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    Yeah. I was talking to some media before the 5A Region III Championship on Sat. and they confirmed this.
     
    #17 ryan17wagner, Mar 10, 2010
  18. Mattj

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    This happened. I was at the game. Westbury played in a stall mode the majorty of the game to try and stay in it as long as they could. Yates intentionally fouled the last 3 minutes of the 4th quarter up more than 30 points, just to get the 100 point "record". This story is pretty old. I'm not sure why Reilly is getting around to it now.
     
    #18 Mattj, Mar 10, 2010
  19. Cannonball

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    http://www.statesman.com/sports/highschool/lake-travis-boys-hope-to-pull-off-hoops-328709.html

    [rquoter]Yates has also made headlines because of its controversial style of play. In January, Yates manhandled a district opponent 170-35. Later that month, the Lions began fouling in the final minutes of a 94-64 win over Houston Westbury in an attempt to reach the 100-point milestone.[/rquoter]
     
    #19 Cannonball, Mar 10, 2010
  20. macho GRANDE

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    I stand corrected.
     
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