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Message: [QUOTE="oldanintheway, post: 4139169, member: 7335"] After HCRE 2.0 "left" it must have been a very unsettled and depressed locker room/team. Now in an instant Coach Lou had to keep the whole ship from sinking, and despite the record he may have done just that. With no real OC, Coach Lou, I believe, was, no matter what he was feeling inside, deep in a week to week, game to game grind of keeping his Very young team somehow together. His body language, and I believe his genuine upbeat encouraging tone kept the ship from sinking altogether. If I may, I think Palatine's and other's initial reaction is legit in that most of us were getting used to the idea that a clean sweep would be a good thing, but there was initial "votes"/suggestions, for perhaps Corey, because of his relationship with some seemingly good recruits and our Special Teams coach to be retained. Most of us agreed regarding our Strength & Conditioning coach staying. So, now we shall see. Coach Spanos is a "Young 50"(?), has plenty of positive energy, his, again, very young players, genuinely respect/like him, and so will play hard for him. Continuity in this case, could well be a positive as he has first hand knowledge on both sides of the ball regarding communicating with all the coaches regarding personnel, their individual personalities, psyches, and physical abilities. The criticism regarding his "vanilla' defense may well be legit also, but now he was HC, down a coach, (or two), and working with what he had. He and HCJM have worked together before, very successfully. He now has on the D side, energetic, hungry coaches accepting the challenge of turning around the #130 team in D1. And they now are under the umbrella of an experienced, (not old, lethargic) coach who has had success at the highest level. Coach genuinely seems to love it here, his players seem to know that and we should have at least have no doubt that Coach Spanos will tirelessly work to do the best job for HCJM, his players, and UConn. We await the results. Good Luck Coach and Congratulations. [/QUOTE]

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