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Message: [QUOTE="Scooch, post: 5616116, member: 628"] Sometimes a coach is a reaction to the guy who preceded him. I've seen this happen twice with my Pats. They hired Pete Carroll - the ultimate player's coach - to follow crusty disciplinarian Bill Parcells. Three decades later they hired affable, sunny Jerod Mayo to follow grumpy, jerk Bill Belichick. Some of Red's tendencies seem to be a rebuke of Boeheim's approaches. Immediately replacing the zone with an ineffective man D. Shuffling through 9+ players instead of playing JB's typical strict 6.5 player rotation. The obsession with unity and culture when JB's teams were often a dysfunctional mess. Not that any one thing Red is trying is bad. But if they're just reactions to the worst of JB then they're unlikely to work. [/QUOTE]