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Originally Posted by Toonage
I get what you're saying but look at all the coaches this team has had since 2007. Playfair, Keenan, other Sutter, Hartley.
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They've had every type of coach other than a "prestige" coach. I don't think it bodes well when your team can only have a modicum of success with 1% of the coaches available. Plus, this team has looked lifeless for a decade... was *every* coach we've hired been uniformly outcoached by all of his peers?
Arguably the exception was when they made the playoffs under Hartley. Few of us had a problem with the effort. We've learned that team was mostly effort / some luck / little structure, and that Hartley's methods to get that effort took a toll. Fine, you get rid of Hartley, treat the players as adults and ask them to deliver the effort minus the beatings. Now they have structure (from my view), but have relaxed on the effort once again.
I'm not discounting the impact that an elite coach may have. I'm just worried that we'll hire one and nothing will change.