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Message: [QUOTE="Chief00, post: 2053868"] I ran into a friend who told me early in the season George Blaney would go to most PC practices and games and then after games would write up two pages of notes. He would typically have some brilliant insights sprinkled throughout his notes by most accounts but apparently Cooley joked they were brilliant but always negative - what they did wrong. Of course, George's son Brian is an assistant coach there. That got me thinking - that was the Calhoun/Blaney approach - identify and fix problems immediately. True, Calhoun would do it in a nano second on the fly while Blaney might wait until practice. But, they felt if they fix all the bad stuff there would be less reason to lose. They would talk about games for hours and craft solutions using their basketball genius. While Cooley and Ollie have some of that philosophy they also try positive reinforcement perhaps more. Calhoun would actually do that in a subtly way but more often he would push buttons - i.e. telling Daniels before the FL semi game - nobody is talking about him. I think maybe today's coaches like a little positive reinforcement too. Quite frankly, there is no right or wrong answer but the different philosophies are fascinating to the Chief. [/QUOTE]