Luke Brown back in the transfer portal

Good post.  I probably saw you there in practice, I had the same experience and reaction. 

Watch a Bob Knight practice and you got a taste of a basic training drill sergeant at work.   Hunsaker was tough, he was foul mouthed, but he was not quite that level of singling out and going after a player driving him to the point of breaking.  Not quite pussycat either.  When he was mad though he was scary.  Red faced, fire in his eyes, thought he might choke on his whistle.

A practice with Majerus and Hunsaker was really interesting.  Rick could let Hunsaker do a lot of the initial screaming to get players attention,  then step in, gather everyone together and have their total attention.  Didn't have to always be really mad, maybe just simmering, very stern and serious.  It allowed him to be almost a good cop by comparison.  I thought practices with Hunsaker as head coach maybe even notched up a little in intensity.  Some of that was the players, those teams had learned they were good as a team and they responded more like the IU teams did to Knight where they listened to what he had to say, not how he said it.   BSU players understood 100% it was in the interest of team being better to keep that individual level of focus and effort. 

The biggest difference between BSU and IU was that IU players often came in as high powered recruits and had to have egos flattened a bit to all get on the same page.  Had to learn talent was no excuse not to do it right.  BSU players came in with a lot less hype, more to prove, more an underdog mentality and appreciated more easily that the tough coaching was elevating them into a powerful team, not so much giving up their own status for the team.