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NO Sports Hall Of Fame: Griffith Became A St. Aug Basketball Coaching Legend 

Maybe you've known about the "KISS Principle." You know — Keep It Simple, Stupid? 토토사이트

It's one of the core values for quite possibly the best prep b-ball mentors in Louisiana. 

Be that as it may, Bernard Griffith has his own one of a kind and commonly Griffith-like understanding. 

"The trouble is figuring out who is inept," he said. "Some of the time it's the players, now and again it's the mentor. So you need to keep that in context." 

The Washington, D.C., local who coordinated the Purple Knights of St Augustine High School for 18 seasons, winning one public title (ESPN, 1995) and three LHSAA state titles (1992-95-99), didn't invest a lot of energy in the dumb classification. That is the reason he is set for acceptance into the 2021 Class of the Greater New Orleans Sports Hall of Fame. 

"Mentor Griff," as he is typically called by his players, moved on from Xavier University in 1971 subsequent to joining the Gold Rush as an exchange from Kansas State in 1967. 

Griffith was an associate mentor at St. Aug when lead trainer Watson Jones guided the Purple Knights to an ideal 35-0 imprint and the 1983 state title. In 1987 Griffith became lead trainer and proceeded with the school's practice of accomplishment, gathering a won-misfortune record of 491-127. 

Which isolated Bernard Griffith groups from most was discipline. 

"Everything's tied in with zeroing in on your assignment," he said. "You don't need to be the awesome your undertaking, yet you must have the option to perform it. The more you practice at it, the better you get at it. 

"A ton of things in life won't turn out well for you, including administering. You can't create an uproar about it. Step back, assess the circumstance and take on the test." 

The champ of 13 Catholic League titles, remembering 11 for a column, Coach Griff had some beautified players; like Torrey Andrews (Rice), Pointer Williams (Tulane), Hollis Price (Oklahoma) and Kerry Kittles (Villanova). However, the "star framework" was never essential for the "Griffith Plan." 

"He generally focused in the group idea. Nobody was greater than the group," said Kittles, a 2014 inductee into the Greater New Orleans Sports Hall of Fame. "He was requesting of everybody and was in every case enthusiastic about endeavoring to accomplish. In the event that you didn't, you endured the fallouts. You would not like to endure Coach Griff's side-effects." 

There was another justification the "no-star" framework. The Coach needed everybody to get into the demonstration. 

"Individuals were astounded that we would do things like put in an entirely different beginning five and we didn't lose a beat," Griffith said. "On the off chance that a child realizes he will play, he will focus. Furthermore, at times his grandparents were in the stands and they've come to see him play." 

Bounce Hopkins, his mentor at Xavier, was a significant impact accentuating position-less b-ball. Everybody ought to have the option to play each position. 

Paul Furlong, his mentor at Mackin High School in Washington, D.C., showed him the significance of speed and perseverance — "They can't push you around on the off chance that they can't get you." 

His first mentor was a swimming trainer in the country's capital named Clarence Bell. Griffith says from age 6 to 16, Bell was mentor of the neighborhood jungle gym's swimming crew. He was a severe taskmaster who demanded that each individual from the collaboration toward water security certificate. 

Ringer is the explanation Griffith is an affirmed water security educator and lifeguard. For 20 summers, Griffith was aquatics chief for the New Orleans Recreation Department. 

Chris Jennings has an exceptional viewpoint of Bernard Griffith. In 1974-75 as a 10th grader at Jesuit High School, Jennings learned under Griffith, who was his World Cultures educator. At the point when Jennings later turned into the Jesuit b-ball mentor, he confronted his previous instructor from the restricting seat for 13 seasons. Jennings says both vantage focuses were frightfully comparative. 

"Both the set of experiences instructor and the mentor didn't endure any absurdity," Jennings said. "He was ready and he made himself clear. His groups were extreme and they were steady." 

The one who took his group to the last four of every nine of his 18 seasons says entering the Greater New Orleans Sports Hall of Fame is for sure a collaboration, actually like every one of the long stretches of winning — with discipline. 

"I didn't make any efforts or play any guard. Some may say everything I did was 'quarrel and cuss,' " Griffith snickered. "In any case, this is pretty much that load of folks who took an interest. The greater part have gone on and got degrees and they are progressing nicely. What's more, a ton of them are as yet utilizing the order and standards we attempted to instruct them. 

"One star doesn't sparkle more brilliant than the entire cosmic system. I'm pleased that there are an entire bundle of 'twinklers' out there." 

Griffith likewise instructed at Sarah Towles Reed (three years); at Dillard University (lead trainer, 2011-15); and with the Dallas Mavericks (collaborator mentor, 2005-07). He additionally filled in as athletic chief at Landry High, Sophie B. Wright High and at SUNO (2017-20).