In this game, there's a lot of screaming, ranting and raving. But he humiliated young athletes. When I hear his name, it's really ambivalence. Yet Oakley admits Kerbel made a positive impact on him. There's no free ticket and it ain't easy.
Life is hard.
Kerbel also had his detractors outside his team. While he had a loyal following, a few were growing tired of his maverick ways, his treatment of players, and more specifically, his targeting of blacks from both coasts at the expense of slow white boys in small Panhandle towns. And unfortunately for Kerbel, some of these detractors were on the school's board of regents. I recruit black players because you guys will make us a winner, and as long as I keep winning, those SOBs can't say anything to me. Kerbel was wrong.