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Last Thursday, Coach Tubby Smith came to General Mills to discuss “Driving Championship Performance.”  I was pretty pumped when I found out about this.  Here are the highlights:

• Something I did not know:  Tubby’s first two Gopher teams are the first two back to back 20 win teams in Minnesota history…impressive.
• Tubby had a couple of outstanding one-liners.  The first one was a product of the fact that he talked about his childhood.  Apparently he comes from family of 12 kids.  Commenting on that he said, “I came from a BIG family…I didn’t sleep alone until I got married.”  The second one also came from his family discussion; talking about his wife he said, “Behind every good man, is a surprised mother-in-law.”  Who knew Tubby was hilarious?
• In the next part, Tubby talked about goals.  One piece of advice which Ithought was interesting, he said to always try to surround yourself with people who have equivocal goals or higher.  This way, you can accomplish sooner.          
• Tubby talked about three Gophers in particular who are working on goals this summer.  Tubby said he has all his players write down attainable goals before every season; he feels the players will then have something to work toward.  They can be team driven or individually driven.  He attributed the Gophers turnaround from 9-20 to 20-11 or whatever it was when Tollackson was still on the team.  Talking about Blake Hoffarber, Tubby said he was a great shooter, but lacked quickness to get around guys and get to the basket.  When his shot went last year, he could not score (we all witnessed this garbage).  Tubby challenged Blake to get quicker in the offseason and work on getting around guys so he can draw fouls and use his foul shooting strength to his advantage.  To that I say, good luck…not a lot you can do for speed when you are a white dude from Minnetonka.  Tubby said Colton Iverson’s goal is to use his height to his advantage and not bend over everything time he gets the ball in the block. This lets guards strip him of possession.  Didn’t they teach us that in 5th grade?  Finally, Tubby said Ralph has got to get stronger…really?  Isn’t that the obvious statement of the year?  I wish him luck though; that would be nice if he added about 30 pounds. 

All in all, it was a good talk.  Unfortunately I did not win an autographed B-Ball at the end of the 90 minutes.  Oh yeah, we gave Tubby a Wheaties box with his pic on it and told him hopefully his team can join him soon…NCAA Championship, he we come!