Rick Byrd
Rick Byrd
Rick Byrdis an American college basketball coach and the current head coach of the Belmont Bruins men's basketball team. He led Belmont to seven NCAA Division I tournaments in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2015 and is currently one of five active NCAA coaches to have 500 wins at one school. Byrd is also one of 11 active coaches to have more than 600 career wins. Byrd won his 700th game as a head coach on January 17,...
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I don't go on stage, and he doesn't come into the locker room.
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We've never backed down from who we've played in the whole time we've been in Division I. We've played a lot of good teams. We've lost by 40 and 50 a couple of times.
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Playing better teams makes you better. You might lose, but you'll be better for it.
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I think we have better national anthems than most schools.
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We're only four practices in, but I was hoping wed be further along than we are right now offensively.
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I suspect that they will think about doing both. For us, with Boomer (Herndon), they put Hollins behind him and Boomer couldn't score through him at all. But Davis, to me, is a combination of Shaquille (O'Neal), with his size, and a guy like Charles Barkley with his mobility. He would more likely be able to do that.
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He hadn't had any hits and I hadn't won many games. I was really happy when he got to be a big star because then I'd get on the bus and he'd go to a town and we'd always play the best golf course in the morning and he'd do the show at night.
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We'd probably be better off right now if we just let them go and didn't try to get them to learn our offense. And that's a 100-percent true fact.
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We became friends before I'd won many games and before he'd had many hits.
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The second half, we weren't as engaged and didn't seem to care as much.
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He's the kind of player who we don't have anyone to guard him. With what he does, at his size.... He can get you from anywhere. I guess you put your best defender on him and hope he has a bad game.
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I just want our guys to have high expectations. We're the underdog, and we should be. But it's 40 minutes, and we're going to give it all we've got.
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They were too good in the open floor and hurt us on the offensive boards.
It's not like it can't happen. I just don't know for sure.