Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="tcf15, post: 4509012, member: 208"] Wild thread on some comments from Frank Martin about social media criticism (in full below tweet): [MEDIA=twitter]1616944062954708992[/MEDIA] [Before Saint Joe's on Thursday] "There's some people that have opinions on social media that I've dealt with personally already, and believe me, me and them will have a man to man when the season is over." "I don't create problems, I treat people with respect. But anyone that comes after my players by name, and being critical of them, me and them got a problem for life. Anyone comes after my family, me and them got a problem that's gonna get fixed." “It is a shame when people claim to be UMass people, and they wanna be negatively critical of college kids that are being demanded to go to class, to work, to come in the gym day and night to become better players. And people attack them personally on social media." "I purposefully went on social media after our VCU game because I kind of had a feeling that I knew people were gonna be commenting ... People wanna say that I don't run good offense and they wanna share the offense I should be running "Believe me I ain't losing a second of sleep over it. People wanna say my substitution patterns stink, they don't like how I scream? I get it, be my guest. I'm not losing sleep at night over it. But over me, am I gonna have anyone come after my players and degrade them with negativity when all those kids do is sacrifice their minds, their bodies for the benefit of this University. That one ain't ever happening." On if he's seen social media directly affect his players: "Yes, if not I wouldn't speak about it. They're children, ... And for people to come after them, vilifying them, degrading them, I ain't the one man. I ain't the one. My job is to help these kids and demand that they do things the right way. And take my word for it, nobody demands that they work more than me, and they're being held accountable every day." "I've never spoken about this publicly, you know why? Because it's never happened to any of my players at any school anywhere I've been." "Yeah we didn't play a good game. Yeah a couple guys need to play better, they hear it from me. But for some average Joe sitting in an office somewhere being a keyboard warrior attacking people personally, they got a meeting with me. I pay attention. You come after me I don't lose any sleep over it. Come after somebody that I'm responsible for? Me and you got a problem." [/QUOTE]

Verification: First name of men's bb coach