Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Wright State’s Clint Sargent doesn’t want to sound like every other coach assessing a team’s offseason. He knows his peers always accentuate the positive and are invariably upbeat about the arrival of official practice.
But when asked for his take on how the Raiders looked in workouts, Sargent, who is especially hyped up with the start of his first season just weeks away, sounded, well, like every other coach.
“It’s hard for programs to say they had bad summers. You could look around the country, and nobody’s going to say a bad thing about their team — understandably so,” he said.
“But I tried to judge it with the amount of time our guys were in the gym (on their own) — because that tells me where their hearts are. And I would say it’s been one of our better summers in terms of that measurement.”
Sargent plans to keep many of the staples of the program installed by previous coach Scott Nagy, who went 167-92 in eight years (and 107-47 in the Horizon League) before leaving for Southern Illinois.
But despite being a longtime Nagy assistant, Sargent has taken a fresh approach to player development, starting with an unusually taxing offseason.
