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Grin and Bear it
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Date Posted: 18:11:27 12/01/21 Wed
No magic, just common sense. With that said, I would have fired Whittet about five years ago. The other day I was checking his record, and he has won about 33% of his games and in the IL the % is below 30. How does that justify being retained? What is really interesting about Whittet is that he is not a bad recruiter. Many of his players go on to play professional hockey. But for some reason, he just doesn't get it done as a coach. Brown is usually the worst team in the league defending the power play and the least successful when on the PP. This is strictly coaching. If a coach can't get this basic element of the game down after 5 seasons, then what justification is there to think things will change? I had the same sick feeling watching Laughlin's soccer teams these last few years, totally disorganized. One other thing, Providence College continually turns out excellent hockey teams, what are they doing that we are not? Might the coach have something to do with it? I don't really think there are any other coaches on the hot seat. Many of them are realtively new in their careers at Brown and will need more time to be judged fairly. One very important caveat: There are some coaches, particularly at a school like Brown, who never get the opportunity to succeed. For example, Jill Reeve, the recently fired field hockey coach, may have been a victim of non support. When this happens, the coach is a sitting duck. Remember what happened to Buddy Teevens when D decided to change its admissions standards. He was a good coach whose hands were tied. This may have been the case with Ms Reeve, but I don't follow FH so I can't say. But I do know that many a good coach met his/her untimely end at Brown due to lack of support.
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