Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Some college basketball coaches have built their reputations on having prolific and innovative offenses — and who doesn’t like getting recognized?
But Clint Sargent probably will never be one of them. His goal this season is to convince his players to put less emphasis on making shots and to start taking satisfaction in what usually gets overlooked.
“I just want our guys to be encouraged by winning ugly,” he said.
Not that the Wright State coach is opposed to seeing an offensive flurry from his team. But after a 7-8 start to his career, he realized his players were coming up short in the competitive toughness department, and he needed to take a fresh approach.
“Some of it can be vague, and they can be, like, ‘Coach, can you define toughness for us?’ We just defined it by asking, ‘OK, what do you guys think winning plays are?’ They defined them, and we wrote them on a board,” he said.
“We told them, ‘OK, this is all that matters. We’ll give you some (scouting reports). But until we start doing these things, it won’t matter.’”
