Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Wright State’s Clint Sargent wants to take a collaborative approach as a coach with his team. It’s not a democracy, but it’s not a dictatorship, either.
For the Raiders to have success, he needs buy-in from his players, and that sometimes means candidly telling them where they’ve gone wrong. Having lost four of their last six games, there’s been a lot of that lately.
“We’ve had some honest, hard film sessions. I feel like this is maybe one of those early- or mid-January make-or-break (stages) where you can really feel guys slip,” he said.
“It’s a long season. At this point, you’ve handled some adversity. Whether you handled that poorly or in a healthy way, you don’t know. But you can really lose a group this time of year.”
As a first-year coach surrounded by a young staff, Sargent couldn’t be certain his speak-the-truth-in-love method was going to work. But though the results may not show it yet, he believes it has.
“I’ve just seen our guys continue to step into the (film) room and take the coaching and take some of the honest conversation,” he said
