Daniel Seahorn
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I thought my day couldn’t get anymore eventful after watching the Kawhi Leonard/DeMar DeRozan trade play out in real time in the wee hours of the morning. After coming out of my slumber I found out I was very wrong.
Im going to shoot this from the hip because from my cell phone so excuse my typos...
By now I’m sure y’all have already seen DeShon’s rant on Twitter (if not there is a thread on the board with the links). My initial reaction was that this could have been handled offline in private so that it was now not a national story, but there has clearly been a lot brewing beneath the surface for awhile that eventually lead to this.
It’s been well documented that majority of us here and elsewhere thought Elliott should return for his senior year, but at the end of day if a player is bent on leaving he is going to leave. We heard when Elliott notified the staff that he more or less leaned into the head man’s office and said “I’m leaving” before going on his way. That was an indicator then that all wasn’t on the up and up between both parties involved and probably played a factor in why we didn’t see Elliott back in Austin for his senior year.
There’s obviously been a lot of tension between Elliott and staff members for some time now, but this wasn’t something that ever flared up publicly until now. Elliott was never mentioned as a problem, he was a prominent player on the team and viewed as a leader, he never had an of the field transgressions. So in that vein I’m not ready to trash his character or slander his name because of today’s events.
Do I think he could have handled it differently? Sure. Probably would have been best to have handled it privately and not made it a headline, but I’ve never heard or thought DeShon was a bad guy and still don’t. None of us would be happy to hear that former coaches were dogging you after you had left. There probably should have been an intervention long before his ever transpired, but that horse is out of the barn now.
There are always going to be players on teams who don’t see eye to eye with the staff. That’s just the way things go. But one thing I can say in this case was that Elliott still went out there, strapped it up and was all business when they teed it up on Saturdays and didn’t ever stop playing hard for his teammates.
There’s obviously a ton to this story that won’t ever be made public, but in my opinion both sides could have handled this a lot better so that there wasn’t a public fallout from it. Don’t bash former players as staff members and don’t make private matters public as the former player so that it becomes national news.
The unfortnate part of this situation is that it will likely be used against the university at one point or another and I’m sure that neither the staff or Elliott wanted that in the first place. Hindsight is 20/20 though and all you can do is try to move forward. Elliott needs to focus on his rookie season ahead and the staff has a season rapidly approaching.
Is it September yet?
Im going to shoot this from the hip because from my cell phone so excuse my typos...
By now I’m sure y’all have already seen DeShon’s rant on Twitter (if not there is a thread on the board with the links). My initial reaction was that this could have been handled offline in private so that it was now not a national story, but there has clearly been a lot brewing beneath the surface for awhile that eventually lead to this.
It’s been well documented that majority of us here and elsewhere thought Elliott should return for his senior year, but at the end of day if a player is bent on leaving he is going to leave. We heard when Elliott notified the staff that he more or less leaned into the head man’s office and said “I’m leaving” before going on his way. That was an indicator then that all wasn’t on the up and up between both parties involved and probably played a factor in why we didn’t see Elliott back in Austin for his senior year.
There’s obviously been a lot of tension between Elliott and staff members for some time now, but this wasn’t something that ever flared up publicly until now. Elliott was never mentioned as a problem, he was a prominent player on the team and viewed as a leader, he never had an of the field transgressions. So in that vein I’m not ready to trash his character or slander his name because of today’s events.
Do I think he could have handled it differently? Sure. Probably would have been best to have handled it privately and not made it a headline, but I’ve never heard or thought DeShon was a bad guy and still don’t. None of us would be happy to hear that former coaches were dogging you after you had left. There probably should have been an intervention long before his ever transpired, but that horse is out of the barn now.
There are always going to be players on teams who don’t see eye to eye with the staff. That’s just the way things go. But one thing I can say in this case was that Elliott still went out there, strapped it up and was all business when they teed it up on Saturdays and didn’t ever stop playing hard for his teammates.
There’s obviously a ton to this story that won’t ever be made public, but in my opinion both sides could have handled this a lot better so that there wasn’t a public fallout from it. Don’t bash former players as staff members and don’t make private matters public as the former player so that it becomes national news.
The unfortnate part of this situation is that it will likely be used against the university at one point or another and I’m sure that neither the staff or Elliott wanted that in the first place. Hindsight is 20/20 though and all you can do is try to move forward. Elliott needs to focus on his rookie season ahead and the staff has a season rapidly approaching.
Is it September yet?
