Sunday, March 18, 2018

Loyola-Chicago Basketball's 'Wall of Culture'


Many coaches have great ideas, but how you communicate those ideas and how the players receive and buy-in to those ideas are what is really important.  Its always good to see how different coaches present their ideas/thoughts/philosophy and how the players receive it.

Here, Coach Porter Moser talks about the “Wall of Culture” that he had made for the Loyola-Chicago basketball locker room.

This was the cultural impact Moser hoped for when he came up with the idea for the wall shortly after arriving at Loyola in 2011. Four seasons on the staff of late coach Rick Majerus at St. Louis taught Moser to fixate on fundamentals. Majerus could have written a dissertation on a jump stop.

“When I got the job and was writing down all these things I wanted to do philosophically, all these details from notes when I worked for Rick, I was like, ‘Let’s just put it up there so they see it every day and buy in,’ ’’ said Moser, 49. “This was a blank wall when I got here.’’

Read the original article in full here: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/ct-spt-loyola-basketball-porter-moser-haugh-20180216-story.html

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