Madness wrote:The fact that a lot of people in South Webster including student athletes don't like or respect him, and the same thing has followed him to Wheelersburg, kind of shows the bad apple in the basket. When neither coach nor players have the respect of each other, you will not get kids to play hard or a coach that will get the most out of the kids. Sounds like Wheelersburg bit off their nose to spite their face when they got rid of Barrick. Kids may not have liked him either but they respected him as a coach and would play hard for him. Doesn't look like the case in Wheelersburg now. Unreal how a sports oriented school like Wheelersburg can have this type of problem.
Not so sure about that. Lot of players walking the halls of Burg that refused to play for him during his time there and it had nothing to do with lack of respect for him. If I've said it once I've said it a thousand times, these are HS kids that are playing the game because they love it, not playing so they can be yelled at in practice or worse, during a game in front of everyone. I'm sure someone will give me the old yelling at a kid toughens him up. WHY DOES EVERYOEN THINK THAT??????? If you constantly yell at a kid and never praise him he will eventually break down and will eventually quit which happened more times than not.
I've seen Ater do the same thing and I've heard his practices, he is hard to deal with. That's why, once again there are kids walking the hallways that should be playing basketball but refuse to play for a coach like.
I don't blame them!!!!
