Wagner College - Kallista Yearbook (New York, NY)

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I think that the 1969-70 basketball season was the worst in my varsity career. Not for me - fOr team effort, it was the worst. Comparing this year's team to the two previous ones, we met easier opponents. The schedule was less stren- uous. IVe didn't travel to Syracuse. We didn't go to Valparaiso. And we came out with the worst record - ll and 14. But if you take into con- sideration games that we were winning and then lost, we should have come out with an 18 and 7, 17 and 8 season. And you can attribute that to some of the ballplayers themselves and to the coaching staff. In a sense, it would have to be more on the ballplayers than on the coaches. The coaches are supposed to give you some type of in- centive. But as a varsity athlete, you're supposed to be at the stage where you know what you're playing for. It's a game. You're representing your school. And in a lot of cases, it's your financial means through college. The more you excel, the more money you get. And that in itself is an in- centive to help you get your education. I think one of the reasons why we weren't as good this year is because of too much - I don't know if it's friction - dissension between the players. And that they used the coach as a scapegoat, saying that instead of him rectifying anything that was wrong, he just let it go on and on. NVe used to have talks on the way to away games. Wie used to bring tape recorders and record what we had to say - conduct interviews - and we'd try to talk honestly with each other. Some fellas, instead of speaking what they felt, held back. And in doing this, you never accom- plish anything. At least we didn't. And this hap- pened at a time when we were losing three, four games in a row. We were trying to find out what was wrong. That was when we went to Elizabeth- town. 1'Ve had just lost to Upsala and Susquehan- na. And we were traveling down there. And after the talk we won the game. I don't think we won the game because we had the talk on the bus down. I think we just won it because some of us played better than we had been playing in the two previous games. Me, myself, I played better. Seaman played better. And some other guys chipped in. But going back to why the dissension existed, some boys weren't playing as much as they thought they should. Others weren't playing the positions that they wanted to play. And others felt that they should have been playing in front of someone else that was playing. No matter what you think your ability is, you have to show it or prove it to the coach and the coaching staff. And it's true that our coach will keep a scholar- ship person over a non-scholarship person in some cases. But he also has to make a decision that will help the team or enhance our season or whatever. And he decided that he would go with a certain five. Now maybe he had this frm