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Message: [QUOTE="HooperScooper, post: 2449509, member: 10"] I'm obviously not there everyday to hear what Ollie says to the players but to the media he is way too forgiving and doesn't hold the players accountable. He seems not to want to admonish them or else he'll lose their attention or worse they'll transfer out. I think athletes at any level, including the pros, will take any excuses a coach gives and use them to accept what happened. I've heard Parcells and Belichick say that. Calhoun never did that. Successful coaches usually don't do that. I don't like stuff like this: [I]“To get back on a plane [in Portland on Sunday] and fly back commercial,” Ollie said, “and do all the different things they did and then to get up get up and fight like this, they could have easily gave in. But they didn’t. Proud of the guys.”[/I] So he basically gave the players a reason for why they didn't need to play hard. They can use the travel (on a commercial airline no less!) as an excuse. Successful coaches are better off being hard ____es. But there is a fine line between being a hard ____ and being understanding. I just don't think Ollie knows where that line is yet. Which is understandable since he's a relatively inexperienced coach. Just my opinion. [/QUOTE]