Rick Stansbury
Rick Stansbury
Richard Lee Stansbury, is the head men's basketball coach at Western Kentucky University...
coach harder kids rod team
There's no team in the country, anywhere, that a coach got their kids to play harder than Rod Barnes did.
contagious four games gets kentucky kids shooting
I don't know why (Kentucky's) kids make shots. Shooting gets contagious, and Kentucky has started getting contagious four games ago.
attitude basketball energy games kids losing makeup special start tells together
It was a special effort. For our kids to have the attitude and energy after losing some games when they're not used to it, it tells you a lot about the makeup of this basketball team. We put together 40 minutes, from start to finish.
chance fight fought kids points second somebody spot zero
You've got zero chance if you spot somebody 20 and have to fight back in the second half. I thought our kids fought back and responded, but you can't get down 20 points and come back on a roll.
accept kids positive
You can't have those on the road. I told our kids, we can't accept this. It's not something we should get used to. But there are some positive things.
difficult easily good kids miss quit team tonight took
This is a difficult thing we're going through. We're not used to this. The kids can very easily get down, quit working and have attitudes, but this team didn't do it. We took a very good Ole Miss team tonight and did something to them that no one's done to them.
came charles energy half kids played plays second
I thought our kids came out the second half and played at that other energy level. We made a lot of plays for Charles Rhodes.
fight fighting games home kids lives three trying
Our kids understand. They know where we're at. We've got three home games left, and two games on the road. We're just trying to fight to get better. They're fighting for their lives every game.
bad gotten kid
He's probably gotten more opportunities than a kid who's a bad person. Walt's not a bad person.
hope lead teams turn
Our teams will turn it over. You just hope they don't lead to baskets.
anybody basketball bruce expected job tremendous
Bruce has done a tremendous job with this basketball team. I don't think anybody expected them to be where they are right now.
both future good men wish work
Both young men are good people, but unfortunately things just didn't work out for them here. We wish them both well in their future endeavors.
gotten though took understand understood
Even though we hadn't won, we've gotten better. We all understood we had some deficiencies in some areas. We understand we had to battle. We've gotten better. Tonight, we took another step.
basketball huge
That was very important. It was huge for our basketball team, being so young, to go in with the lead.