Coaching Legacy of Dustin Taylor (CH2K8)

[taylord89_0531]

So first off some specifics
Sliders: RSpencers
Roster: Can't Remember it was a long time ago and i only saved them as 2kshare
Starting Team: Florida Gulf Coast University
Starting Coaching Attributes: Everything C- except for teaching which i used all the points given to get to a B+
I will play every game and try to update regularly within reason

[taylord89_0531]

FGCU Hires New Head Coach
Today Florida Gulf Coast University has Hired a new head coach for their Basketball Program. The New Coach is Dustin Taylor he came from Canada of all places and was very succesful at the high school level in the five years he had been coaching. FGCU was asked why they hired Taylor to which they responded ``Even though He coached in canada i feel that success is success and our program in the end needs a successful head coach in order to be competitive. We feel that at his age he is young enough to be able to relate to our players which we feel is important.`` That is another thing that is brought to question Coach Taylor is only 25 years of age meaning he is one of the youngest coaches in D1 basketball. When asked about what his expectations were in his first year of coach Taylor said this ``I expect to win our conference this year and make it the Tournament in my first year I understand that this may be a lofty expectation but i feel that if you do not set high expectations for yourself you can not expect to go anywhere in life, the way I see it I would rather set high expectations and fail to reach them than set low expectations and achieve them easily.`` Clearly he has set these expectations for himself so as to start his career as a succesful head coach in the ncaa. One thing not mentioned by the university or Coach Taylor is that Taylor is considered to be a very good teacher by many and he can only be expected to get better as his career progresses.

[taylord89_0531]

Starting Lineup Released
PG Sherwood Brown 6'3" 184lbs So 61
SG Reed Baker 6'1" 180lbs Sr 66
SF Anthony Banks 6'6" 210lbs So 67
PF Chase Fieler 6'7" 190lbs Fr 60
C Kevin Cantinol 6'10" 255lbs Jr 62
6 Chad Lutkenhaus 6'5" 200lbs Sr 63 SG
7 Ed Rolax 6'5" 215lbs Jr 58 PF
8 Charlie Lytle 6'8" 192lbs Sr 58 C

Coach Philosophy
Playbook UCLA High Post
Primary Defense 2-3
Secondary Defense Man to Man
Bench Depth 8
Off Tempo 55
Pressure 75
Fast Break 75
Crash Boards 100

[mdlee3_46041]

Look good so far. Can't wait for more.

[taylord89_0531]

Season Schedule
11/12 @ Bethune Cookman L 53-44
11/14 vs. Drexel W 66-59
11/18 @ Iowa W 54-42
11/20 @ Bradley W 52-50
11/23 @ Austin Peay W 68-33
11/24 @ Valparaiso W 58-53
11/25 @ MD-Eastern Shore W 71-47
11/28 @ Arizona St. L 67-64
12/2 @ Florida International
12/8 @ Florida Atlantic
12/13 @ Army
12/17 @ IUPUI
12/22 vs. Butler
12/29 vs. Penn
1/3 @ North Florida
1/5 @ Jacksonville
1/11 vs. Stetson
1/17 vs. Mercer
1/19 vs. Kennesaw St.
1/24 @ Campbell
1/26 @ Gardner-Webb
1/31 vs. Lipscomb
2/2 @ Belmont
2/8 vs. Eastern Tennessee St.
2/10 vs. SC Upstate
2/14 @ Mercer
2/16 @ Kennesaw St.
2/23 @ Stetson
2/29 vs. Jacksonville
3/1 vs. North Florida
3/4 @ Marquette

Non Conference Games
In Conference Games
Tournament Games

Current Record 6-2

[taylord89_0531]

Fouling Leads to Tough Loss in Taylor's First Appearance as Head Coach
November 12^th 2007
A tough loss for the Gulf Coast Eagles in their opening game of the season today as they fell to the Bethune-Cookman wildcats 53-44. The eagles held a one point lead going into the half but in the second they fell behind and never got back on top. It was a fairly clean first half for both teams but in the second the eagles got into foul trouble and that really hurt their cause. The eagles were also unable to defend the Wildcats 2guard C.J. Reed who dropped 25 points in the victory the eagles highest leading scorer was the Jr C Kevin Cantinol who had 12 points to go with 7 boards. When Coach Taylor was asked about the game afterwards and how he felt about the loss he said this “we shouldn’t have lost this one we had a slim lead at halftime but we didn’t keep up our effort on defense we should not have allowed Reed to have 25 points in the first game of the season. If we had kept up the effort defensively I feel we could have easily pulled away in the second half but that didn’t happen if we hadn’t fouled so much we would have had a good chance” To point out the foul situation coach Taylor brought up the final free throw totals were Bethune-Cookman 8-14 FGCU 3-6 if they had been able to get to the line more often the Eagles could have won it.

[doncoryell]

Welcome aboard, Coach Taylor and good luck at FGCU.

[delija66]

Good luck with FGCU... will be following for sure