The Big Ball Theory

None of this is a surprise.

My brother, a former SoCal hoops coach who DID make it to Sacramento and is now an AD at a decent-sized school (2,400 kids), and I have been talking a lot about this.

Long ago, he said he wouldn't put up with this garbage, no matter what it brought. His response would basically be, "I think you need to find a better situation for your kids instead of here."

And he wouldn't care. He wouldn't want these headaches. And what's written in USAT is about one-tenth of the crap that coach has been put through.

And the Chino Hills AD? He's 90 percent of the problem and why that school goes through coaches at all levels/sports like there's a running turnstile.

 

The coach is out of his element. He should never have been put into the job -- and that's on the lazy AD. Don't care that he was the assistant for the national title team. Blue Ball was running things and dictated the hire because he felt/knew he could control him. And when there was resistance, he turned into Dr. AAU and the kids responded to that instead of the coach.

There's a reason Baik left -- and it wasn't family reasons. And he would have won another national title had he stayed. The fact he didn't just to avoid the bullshit being spewed by Ball shows you it wasn't worth it -- even for a ring and national fame, such as it is.

 

Zero options in SoCal left after what's happened the past two months. Enjoy those ESPN reruns of the specials that were done. Non-factor come next fall. Hell, he's a non-factor now. All hat, no cattle.