Frank Martin

Will Muschamp's Happy For Frank Martin, South Carolina Basketball Team

... team, both of which also won on Friday. “Really happy for Frank,” Muschamp said. “Certainly, in my opinion, it’s expected, as far as where they are with their program. Extremely, extremely happy for him. “I think the world of the guy and the job he does and what he represents and how he represents the University of South Carolina. I’m certainly pulling for him on Sunday (vs. Duke).”. Muschamp then took a friendly jab at Martin, who also has freshman tight end Evan Hinson on his roster. “Hinson, I’m going to continue to recruit for Frank. I coached him for those first two shots in the SEC Tournament against Alabama,” Muschamp said. “Frank coached him on the air ball.”. Hinson isn’t the only player on Martin’s team who Muschamp said could play football. “There’s no doubt,” Muschamp said, when asked if shooting guard Duane Notice profiles as a safety. “(Rakym) Felder could play corner,” Muschamp added. “I could outfit a team.”. The South Carolina men’s basketball team faces the Blue Devils on Sunday night (8:40 p.m. ET, TNT). ...

Everyone Can Learn From Kid Reporters Asking Questions At Press Conferences

... Martin’s reaction to the question in the earlier press conference, the one not on deadline, was telling. Q. Your team clearly won the defensive battle tonight. When you coach and teach your team defense, what's more important, technique or attitude. FRANK MARTIN: First of all, a lot of respect to you. That's a heck of a question. I've been doing this a long time and that's the first time anyone's ever asked me that. That's a heck of a question. Frank Martin opens his presser by looking for Max (SI kid). Martin reiterates last night's question was terrific and well-articulated. — Josh Newman (@Joshua_Newman) March 25, 2017. Instead of trying to plug quotes into a game recap because that’s what’s always been done, Max asked questions about stories on his mind and, likely, stories on his audience’s mind. In an industry where it’s easy to become jaded while chasing deadlines, stories, and recaps, it’s worth stopping to appreciate the kid asking a thoughtful question and not criticizing the fact that he’s there. Besides, Max had the guts to step up and ask a head coach and star player questions at an ...

Frank Martin Was 'on A Mission' To Lead Gamecocks Back To Relevance

... like a fantasy. As the final seconds ticked off the clock Sunday night, he thought about that journey. “A lot. A lot,” he said. “We've got an unbelievable group of seniors. Those three guys are phenomenal. When they were freshmen. no one was there to help those guys. And they had teammates that didn't want to deal with the difficult practices, and they didn't want to deal with structure and discipline. Didn't believe in what we were trying to convince them that we can become. Those three guys stood tall every single day. And that's why I'm not surprised that we played the way we did in the second half.”. Seniors Sindarius Thornwell, Duane Notice and Mc Kie combined to score 45 points Sunday, and the Gamecocks overwhelmed the Blue Devils with a final 20 minutes in which they shot 71 percent from the field and scored 65 points — more than they managed in 10 full games earlier this season. That after a first half in which USC made just two of its last 22 shot attempts, and trailed by as many as 10. “We were very positive,” Martin said. “You can't have these kids that have been through what they've been through for four years to build this program, and go in at halftime ...

Frank Martin Brought Intensity But Got His Gamecocks Defense From Shakey Rodriguez

... JV head coach at Miami Senior High School called in sick. The poor guy never got his job back. A career was born for a coach now better known as Frank Martin , architect of South Carolina’s Sunday night NCAA Tournament upset of Duke and Sweet 16 date with Baylor on Friday night in New York. “Frank was so good right away,” former Miami Senior varsity head coach Marcos “Shakey” Rodriguez said from South Florida. “I said, ‘Just keep doing it.’”. So good that Rodriguez and varsity assistant coach Anthony Grant, a former VCU and Alabama head coach now an assistant with the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder, would sneak into a bathroom to eavesdrop on Martin’s blistering locker room speeches. They tried to contain their giggling. “You have to give 120 percent!” Martin shouted during one halftime rant. Later, Rodriguez pulled Martin aside. “Frank,” he said, “how can you give more than 100 percent?”. The cleaned-up version of Martin’s answer: “Play harder.”. So Martin, a chubby Cuban-American kid who was an average player and a standout ...

South Carolina’s Elite 8 Run Built On Trust

... Foot on gas pedal. — Nicole Auerbach (@Nicole Auerbach) March 25, 2017. Looking back, Martin knew early on that this was possible, even if it didn’t click until March. It was a 61-46 grind-it-out win over Michigan on Nov. 23 that set the tone. “I left that game, I said, this team has a chance to be the best defensive team I've coached,” Martin said. “That was my thought process when I got home and broke that film down.”. Now it’s easy to forget that South Carolina limped into the NCAA tournament, losing five out of its last seven games, including an 11-point loss to Alabama in the first round of the SEC tournament. The committee did the Gamecocks no favors either, matching them up with a Marquette team that already owned wins over a host of tournament teams, with Duke to follow should they escape. Yet even against Duke, where the Gamecocks surrendered 81 points, it ...

South Carolina Coach Frank Martin Has Minor Meltdown Over Ref Call

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Sportswriters Whine About Kid Reporter Asking Legitimate Question At Press Conference

... MARTIN: First of all, a lot of respect to you. That’s a heck of a question. I’ve been doing this a long time and that’s the first time anyone’s ever asked me that. That’s a heck of a question. Attitude comes first. We got to have guys that are going to believe in our mission, that are going to believe in what we want to do. Once they believe, then we can teach them the technique. It all starts with our mindset. We have got guys that are completely bought into what we do. In a press conference with its fair share of “talk about.” bullshit non-questions, this was easily one of the better queries. Some journalists clearly didn’t think so. Both have since tried to backtrack—Dodd by completely reversing course and South Carolina beat reporter Caraviello by claiming that he was actually talking about an SI Kids question from a different game. (Bonnstetter did ask a separate question in the later game’s press conference—a game Caraviello did not appear to write about or be on deadline for—but it’s not a ...

Mike White And Frank Martin Square Off For A Final Four Berth, As Unlikely As It May Be

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Frank Martin Gives A Great Answer To An Si Kids Reporter

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The Players' Tribune

... or someone, your passion, you’re making a personal sacrifice. This season, in particular, South Carolina fans have given this program those three things — their time, money and passion — in a way that I’ve never really seen before. And it’s important to me that you all know something: It hasn’t been lost on us. I can speak on behalf of the whole team when I tell you that we appreciate it from the bottom of our hearts. I’m a Miami guy, so I know a little something about people in big cities. In a big city, when it comes to college sports, a lot of times people make noise on only two occasions: When you’re winning — and when it’s time to fire the coach. But that’s not how it works in Columbia. Our fans started showing up even when we weren’t winning. They began supporting this team just based on the heart and commitment our players were showing on the court. They nurtured that. And those results this past weekend? They were possible because of the emotional investment that our fans ...