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Australia, Brian Goorjian, Ed Goorjian, Olympic Basketball, second chances, West Coast Conference
Coaches, do not get discouraged. Everyone has problems.
I once heard a story about how they mined diamonds in South Africa. It seems they moved tons and tons of rock in order to find a diamond no bigger than my fingernail. The moral of story is that, even though we as teachers/coaches of these young people might get discouraged after having one problem player after another. If we just keep working with them, hopefully eventually they will become mature. And one day we may also find our “diamond in the rough”.
Years ago at Pepperdine University I had a young freshman by the name of Brian Goorjian. He was a good person but he was so immature that everything he did drove me and my staff crazy. After repeated incidents of irresponsibility, including trashing the Volkswagen that his dad gave him by letting everbody on campus use his car in an effort to be “everything to everybody”, I kicked him off the team. I called him in and said he could keep his scholarship and go to school but he was not ever allowed to come in the gym again. Continue reading
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