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[QUOTE="SUFan44, post: 2020390, member: 39"]
Boeheim's comments about his not really caring about off the court stuff and calling all of the bonding stuff "nonsense" really had me thinking.

Kids these days are different than they were 20 years ago. Even 10 years ago, to be honest.

They need much more encouragement, much more positive reinforcement and a cohesiveness is much more important now than it may have been 20 years ago.

The cohesion is a much bigger part now, in my opinion, because back in the day, guys would play with other guys they didn't like because they could handle it. They'd play just as hard with guys that they hated as guys that they liked, just because that was the right thing to do.

Now adays, kids are different. They are always on social media, internalize things and do things that are unfathomable (at least to me). Not playing hard or not playing together due to off-court issues, to me, is ridiculous. You play as hard as you can and you play the right way because that's just what you do.

The Frank Howard situation is a perfect example of why cohesion and team dynamic is much more important now than it was.

I have worked in college athletics for a long time and I have seen these team dynamics help build championship-winning programs - mostly on the women's side of things. I'd say men's teams have typically not paid much attention to this, but I would hope with the evolving nature of kids, they start paying attention.

Talent wins games as it usually always does, but cohesion and team dynamic - if it's not right - can lose games, too.
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