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<blockquote data-quote="daBuzz" data-source="post: 39038" data-attributes="member: 56"><p>Guys could take remedial classes under Ross and O'Leary. I have no insider knowledge regarding Ross but I have spoken to many of the players during O'Leary's term, including a few of the ones who have told me point blank, "I'd never be admitted under today's standards". As I've posted before, Daryl Smith was one of those. But just because they could take remedial classes, I don't know of any personally who actually did.</p><p></p><p>As a matter of fact, every person I talked to about O'Leary mentioned that GOL was so much of a micro-manager and so fanatical about knowing everything that was going on with the program, that he had GA's going daily and following students to classes to make sure they went to class. Players who missed any class suffered through punishment runs and other creative types of "go to class" incentives. Further, almost every one of the players I spoke to about GOL went out of their way to mention that they don't put any credence into the stories of how APR would have hurt GOL had it been implemented while he was there. Ironically, most of them mentioned that the professors teaching his players' classes almost universally liked GOL and appreciated the fact that he was making the SA's actually attend and be good students. It was the management and admissions part of "the hill" that didn't like GOL.</p><p></p><p>On a side note, a few of them also mentioned that GOL was one of those coaches whom you either loved or hated. Most of the team loved him but a small portion of the team hated his micromanaging. It was said that he scheduled things down to the absolute minute and that if you showed up on time for a 6pm meeting you were considered late...because on-time meant being 5 or 10 minutes early. </p><p></p><p>I also heard a story about a player who showed up for the team bus as they were leaving for an away game and the bus was scheduled to leave at something like 6:14 am. At 6:14 the bus starts rolling and the player is running to catch up to the bus. O'Leary wouldn't let the bus driver stop the bus to pick up the player and it wasn't until the bus stopped for a red light about 2 blocks later that the player caught up and banged on the door. O'Leary allowed the driver to open the door and let the player on the bus. But the player who told me that smiled and said, "Everybody got the message after that though. When we were scheduled to leave, sometimes we would be there 20 or 30 minutes early because no one wanted to be left at home and you knew O'Leary wasn't gonna stop for your a**."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="daBuzz, post: 39038, member: 56"] Guys could take remedial classes under Ross and O'Leary. I have no insider knowledge regarding Ross but I have spoken to many of the players during O'Leary's term, including a few of the ones who have told me point blank, "I'd never be admitted under today's standards". As I've posted before, Daryl Smith was one of those. But just because they could take remedial classes, I don't know of any personally who actually did. As a matter of fact, every person I talked to about O'Leary mentioned that GOL was so much of a micro-manager and so fanatical about knowing everything that was going on with the program, that he had GA's going daily and following students to classes to make sure they went to class. Players who missed any class suffered through punishment runs and other creative types of "go to class" incentives. Further, almost every one of the players I spoke to about GOL went out of their way to mention that they don't put any credence into the stories of how APR would have hurt GOL had it been implemented while he was there. Ironically, most of them mentioned that the professors teaching his players' classes almost universally liked GOL and appreciated the fact that he was making the SA's actually attend and be good students. It was the management and admissions part of "the hill" that didn't like GOL. On a side note, a few of them also mentioned that GOL was one of those coaches whom you either loved or hated. Most of the team loved him but a small portion of the team hated his micromanaging. It was said that he scheduled things down to the absolute minute and that if you showed up on time for a 6pm meeting you were considered late...because on-time meant being 5 or 10 minutes early. I also heard a story about a player who showed up for the team bus as they were leaving for an away game and the bus was scheduled to leave at something like 6:14 am. At 6:14 the bus starts rolling and the player is running to catch up to the bus. O'Leary wouldn't let the bus driver stop the bus to pick up the player and it wasn't until the bus stopped for a red light about 2 blocks later that the player caught up and banged on the door. O'Leary allowed the driver to open the door and let the player on the bus. But the player who told me that smiled and said, "Everybody got the message after that though. When we were scheduled to leave, sometimes we would be there 20 or 30 minutes early because no one wanted to be left at home and you knew O'Leary wasn't gonna stop for your a**." [/QUOTE]
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