When you lose a game, you bounce back the next day. But when you lose a great person in the coaching business, there is no boucning back. Bill Brewer, high school basketball coach at Princeton High School but formerly of Roger Bacon passed away this morning from a heart attack. He was 42 years old. The Enquirer has the terrible news.
Brewer’s team at Roger Bacon beat Lebron James in the State championship for Ohio back in 2001-2002.
Please keep Brewer in your thoughts and prayers.
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Pat Forde of ESPN on Ronny Thompson and the whole Ball State deal. Interesting item in the article.
At one point during the 2006-07 season, according to guard Peyton Stovall, Thompson instructed his players not to trust white people. “He had said that,” said Stovall, a fifth-year senior who is black. “It kind of bothered me a little bit. It was hard for me to believe. I grew up around white people.”
The Sporting News has a story on coaches and their players that love them and the coach loving the place they are in. Kentucky player on their new head coach Billy Gillispie.
“What don’t I like about him? That’s the question,” senior guard Ramel Bradley said of Gillispie. “I just love how intense he is as a coach and the fact that he wants us to get better as players. He wants to show us that he loves us and cares about us.”
So Bradley loves that Gillispie is intense and the fact that he wants to get them better? But he also loves the fact that Gillispie shows love and is caring. I like that…
“It’s a great game but a bad business.”
Filed under: Bill Brewer, Lebron James, Pat Forde, Peyton Stovall, Ronny Thompson | Tagged: Ball State University, High school basketball, Ohio, Roger Bacon High school, The Sporting News
