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Message: [QUOTE="DMIL, post: 2507260, member: 8539"] Maybe is soft in some areas however stern in others. You are comparing a relatively young college coach to HOF coaches that have been coaching for 35 to 40 years plus. This is not the right comparison and short sighted as Calhoun is not returning. The kids are much different now, a different time. The guys you are referencing are a dying breed and will be extinct soon. The things they get and got away with you cannot get away with today. There are a lot more different ways to coach, motivate and mentor than doing it by fear man. Ollie is his own man and let's not act like his style has not worked before because it has. I love Jim Calhoun but he is not coming back. Your analysis of their differences are on point but the premise that the only way to coach and get ideal results is by coaching with fear and straddling the line of ethics is simply not true. Kids don't respond to that style like they used to. The remaining coaches that coach this way get a pass because of their HOF credentials. [/QUOTE]