Name one experienced coach anywhere in the world that would hand over their playbook to the other team. Unless it's a fake playbook, it just doesn't happen.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful and who their coaches were.
Players are saying, 'I don't have to have a coach who has only played a little bit. Instead, I can have somebody who won something'.
Many of the most successful coaches and managers have come from players who never reached the highest level. The one exception seems to be basketball, where many of the greatest stars at least tried to coach a team.
I've been around young, talented, non-coachable players. I've been around veteran, talented, non-coachable players. No matter what you do, sooner or later - even if a coach comes in that's able to connect with them - if that's who they are, they're going to go back to it.
Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different.
No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts.
It's not any one person. It's not any one coach. It's the team.
How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?
Who is the ally of the coach? Who's going to write, 'Man, that was a well-coached game.' Players win, coaches lose.
I think players changing coaches is normal.