Wagner College - Kallista Yearbook (New York, NY)

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of attitude, that the ballplayers had. We just came off a good win with Fairleigh Dickinson. We played a good team ball game. Here we were going to Upsala, a team that was considered worse than us. Personnel was weak. The caliber of ball that they played was inferior to ours. And we went in there and they beat us by 20-some points, I think. This all happened because most of the fellas went in there with the idea that we're just going to-beat them, there's no doub-t about it. They canj t beat us. We're just going to go in and come back home a winner. And you can't win games on your thoughts. Or by what someone writes in the paper. And they thought that we could. And that's what happened. And another thing, most of the fellas were given dif- ferent positions from what they were used to playing. They didn't feel comfortable or confi- dent in the position that they were playing. So, they decided that since they felt uneasy, they couldn't do the job. And they went to show us that they couldn't do the job. And that's another reason for us having such a poor season. Near the end of the season, for some of us, it became very personal. We just wanted to get the 500 season for ourselves. And we tried. We fell three short, something like that. But we tried. And this is the type of feeling that you have to have from the beginning of the season, not at the end, but at the beginning. They just waited too long to get that feeling. See, it's hard for a new guy on the team to come in unless he really has the right attitude to play basketball. To come in and pick up the team. And then it's hard for a person in my position to try to keep the guys up all the time, because there are other factors involved, why they don't play well. They might not be doing well academically. They might have a cold. There might be family problems. There are a lot of factors. But I tried to get involved and see what was wrong with some guys and some I could communicate with and others I couldn't. We just didn't have an openness about us that made us a really closely knit team. And it's funny, because at the beginning of the season, I thought we would have been close. But we just drifted apart. Guys grouped together and stayed in the bands. Some of this you can blame on the coach, in the sense that he's supposed to be the Overseer. And he should be able to judge when there's friction among his ballplayers. The coach never stepped in and displayed the au- thority that he possesses. He never cracked down on anybody. I think this hurt us. I think it's going to be chaos next year be- cause there are going to be one or two guys who are going to want to become the leading scorers on the team. And then the coach is going to want certain individuals to be the leading scorers on the team. And this is going to create a competi- tion among these fellas and they're not going to play as a team. They're going to play to beat each other out. It'll be even worse than this year. Then again, attitude-wise, some of the fellas on the team might not even come out next year. I think it's really going to be a poor season. You're going to see basketball at its worst. All because some of the guys are more individual- minded than team-minded. I've always felt that a good team player can show the fans and his coach and his opposing coaches and opponents that he's a good individual player without being a star-seeker or an attention-grabber. But every- body has their own outlook of the game, their own feeling. I think that out of this year's freshman team, Kevin Quinn has an excellent chance of being one of the greatest ballplayers Wagner ever had. It's just a matter of working with him. See, in high school, he was a forward. And here, he play- ed as a guard and it was a change for him. And there's certain things that he has to improve on. If the coaching staff would work with him, and give him a program over the summer, then l think that this will help him and the team and the ballplayers on the team. But if they don't, and Kevin has to work by himself, and he doesn't improve over this past season, then he's not going to be any help to himself or the team. Anarumo was good as a freshman, but on the varsity, he can't play the way he's been playing. Heis just not big enough. Most of the shots he made against some of the freshmen ballplayers, I don't know if he could make them against guys who are 6-7, 6-8, that can play good defense. So the freshmen team has something to offer, but it's not a lot. If the coaches work with them, they can get -quite a bit out of what they're going to get. But if they don't, then there won't be any- thing.

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