Rory Whipple Reviews

Rory Whipple

11 Reviews

Overall Recommendation

9%

The University of Tampa - Tampa, FL

Men's Lacrosse Head Coach
Division: NCAA DII
Conference: Sunshine State

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Men's Lacrosse Head Coach

Whipple is certainly not Legendary

Date: December 10, 2023

By Parent

1.8

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Whip is fairly knowledgeable about lacrosse (fairly), but frankly just copies strategies and tactics from more successful coaches. He was a hell of a wrester in college and... was on the lacrosse team. He is a really, really good recruiter, and thus gathers a lot of talented players. However he ends up with too many players, for each one to have an opportunity to contribute and. Seems to take pride in getting the team "in-shape" vs developing/perfecting knowledge, skills, abilities. ( (e.g. players run a lot). Not sure (and baffling) how he obtained the moniker "Legendary Coach"...he certainly is not even close to Danowski, Desko, Messere, B. Scott, Petro, Emmer, Schurr etc... those are Legendary Coaches..

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Men's Lacrosse Head Coach

Whipple is certainly not Legendary

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Date: December 10, 2023

By Parent

Whip is fairly knowledgeable about lacrosse (fairly), but frankly just copies strategies and tactics from more successful coaches. He was a hell of a wrester in college and... was on the lacrosse team. He is a really, really good recruiter, and thus gathers a lot of talented players. However he ends up with too many players, for each one to have an opportunity to contribute and. Seems to take pride in getting the team "in-shape" vs developing/perfecting knowledge, skills, abilities. ( (e.g. players run a lot). Not sure (and baffling) how he obtained the moniker "Legendary Coach"...he certainly is not even close to Danowski, Desko, Messere, B. Scott, Petro, Emmer, Schurr etc... those are Legendary Coaches..

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Men's Lacrosse Head Coach

Date: September 11, 2020

By Verified Athlete

4.2

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Coach Whipple while being an extremely intense coach, provided an excellent learning experience for his players. If you have a hard working mentality and can be patient you WILL play here. Many freshmen quit because of the intense workouts but that is in them. Coach Whipple is also a very humorous guy when you get to know him.

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4.2

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Yes

Men's Lacrosse Head Coach

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Date: September 11, 2020

By Verified Athlete

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Coach Whipple while being an extremely intense coach, provided an excellent learning experience for his players. If you have a hard working mentality and can be patient you WILL play here. Many freshmen quit because of the intense workouts but that is in them. Coach Whipple is also a very humorous guy when you get to know him.

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Men's Lacrosse Head Coach

Date: February 7, 2017

By Verified Athlete

1.2

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Made me lose my love for the game of lacrosse. Doesn't care about his players only about himself getting a win.

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1.2

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No

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Date: February 7, 2017

By Verified Athlete

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Made me lose my love for the game of lacrosse. Doesn't care about his players only about himself getting a win.

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Men's Lacrosse Head Coach

Date: January 14, 2017

By Verified Athlete

1.2

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No one should go to U Tampa to play lacrosse unless you want to go to the University anyway. I decommitted from a D1 school, because the coaches said I was a definite All-American and that they loved me. My freshman year they brought in 64 freshman, instead of the normal 11-12 players and threw almost all of them onto JV. I made it up to Varsity and got playing time, but the coaches don't give a damn about you and you're just a piece of meat.15 of us quit this year.

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1.2

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No

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Date: January 14, 2017

By Verified Athlete

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No one should go to U Tampa to play lacrosse unless you want to go to the University anyway. I decommitted from a D1 school, because the coaches said I was a definite All-American and that they loved me. My freshman year they brought in 64 freshman, instead of the normal 11-12 players and threw almost all of them onto JV. I made it up to Varsity and got playing time, but the coaches don't give a damn about you and you're just a piece of meat.15 of us quit this year.

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Men's Lacrosse Head Coach

Date: November 17, 2016

By Verified Athlete

2.0

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Successful program. Coaches are dedicated. Great scouting reports from Coach Burdick. You'll be in the best shape of your life and win a lot of games, but have to put up with a lot of BS from coaches.

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2.0

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Date: November 17, 2016

By Verified Athlete

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Successful program. Coaches are dedicated. Great scouting reports from Coach Burdick. You'll be in the best shape of your life and win a lot of games, but have to put up with a lot of BS from coaches.

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Men's Lacrosse Head Coach

Date: November 16, 2016

By Verified Athlete

1.6

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Coach Whipple is an old school coach who refuses to listen to his captains, trainers, or players. Team morale is constantly very low and players straight up hate playing for him. He does not relate to his players nor understand the importance of having a strong team morale. Players are either viewed as assets or liabilities. Turnover is extremely high under coach Whipple.

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Date: November 16, 2016

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Coach Whipple is an old school coach who refuses to listen to his captains, trainers, or players. Team morale is constantly very low and players straight up hate playing for him. He does not relate to his players nor understand the importance of having a strong team morale. Players are either viewed as assets or liabilities. Turnover is extremely high under coach Whipple.

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Men's Lacrosse Head Coach

Date: November 16, 2016

By Verified Athlete

2.0

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Rory Whipple is one of the worst coaches in the NCAA. UT's record is not because of him, it is based off talent of the players alone. He runs his players into the ground, causing about 1/3 of the program to be hurt at any given time. He over recruits every year bringing in some 40-50 freshman per class. Doesn't care about academics, saying "you came here to play lacrosse, not be a student". Lacrosse careers die at Tampa

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Date: November 16, 2016

By Verified Athlete

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Rory Whipple is one of the worst coaches in the NCAA. UT's record is not because of him, it is based off talent of the players alone. He runs his players into the ground, causing about 1/3 of the program to be hurt at any given time. He over recruits every year bringing in some 40-50 freshman per class. Doesn't care about academics, saying "you came here to play lacrosse, not be a student". Lacrosse careers die at Tampa

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Men's Lacrosse Head Coach

Date: November 16, 2016

By Verified Athlete

1.8

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Coach Whipple is very outdated. His thinking process is from the 70's going back to over conditioning. Every kid is playing through injury which is why tampa loses in big games. Team is very good, motivation is always all time low with the coaching leadership. Too many recruits ruin college dreams.

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Date: November 16, 2016

By Verified Athlete

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Coach Whipple is very outdated. His thinking process is from the 70's going back to over conditioning. Every kid is playing through injury which is why tampa loses in big games. Team is very good, motivation is always all time low with the coaching leadership. Too many recruits ruin college dreams.

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Men's Lacrosse Head Coach

Date: November 16, 2016

By Verified Athlete

1.8

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In general, Coach Whipple is very difficult to play for. During the recruitment process he will tell recruits what they want to hear, many of them come into Tampa thinking they will be 1 of 15 recruits as a normal freshman class but will surprised by the number of actual freshman that were told they would have a spot on the team. Whipple has very little if any interest in his players, some players he doesn't even know their real names.

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1.8

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No

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Date: November 16, 2016

By Verified Athlete

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In general, Coach Whipple is very difficult to play for. During the recruitment process he will tell recruits what they want to hear, many of them come into Tampa thinking they will be 1 of 15 recruits as a normal freshman class but will surprised by the number of actual freshman that were told they would have a spot on the team. Whipple has very little if any interest in his players, some players he doesn't even know their real names.

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Men's Lacrosse Head Coach

Date: November 14, 2016

By Verified Athlete

1.6

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He is the absolute worst coach I have ever experienced. Not one player I've ever spoken to (which is several years worth) has had anything relatively positive to say about this man.

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1.6

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No

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Date: November 14, 2016

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He is the absolute worst coach I have ever experienced. Not one player I've ever spoken to (which is several years worth) has had anything relatively positive to say about this man.

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Men's Lacrosse Head Coach

Date: November 14, 2016

By Verified Athlete

1.6

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Out for himself treats his son on the team as a god

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1.6

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No

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Date: November 14, 2016

By Verified Athlete

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Out for himself treats his son on the team as a god

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