Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
By Tom Archdeacon
“I can’t even stand to listen to your voice anymore!”
That was the stark wake-up call Scott Nagy got from one of his players a dozen years ago.
It helped change him, not just as a college basketball coach, but also a man.
And it’s still paying dividends now, especially this past week as he and his Wright State team recovered from a bad loss last Sunday to Detroit Mercy, a team they had routed by 31 points just 16 days earlier.
As he dealt with that dispiriting loss, Nagy drew on that day back in 2010 when he was the coach at South Dakota State University and his veteran guard, Garret Callahan, stopped by his office for a difficult end-of-the-season admission.
It was a tough time in Nagy’s coaching career. After nine seasons of great success leading the Jackrabbits’ Division II program – a stretch that included 210 wins and eight trips to the NCAA Tournament – he was at the helm when the school moved up to D-I status.
The transition was rugged. Six losing seasons followed.
