Watching Bruce Pearl give his pre-game hype speech caused me to ask a question: Do championship coaches tend to have a certain personality type? Pitino was Type A. Dean Smith and Jay Wright seemed more reserved.
Over the years I've grown more and more skeptical of the coaches who tend to be engage is overly emotional hype. They do seem to win a lot but never seem to win the big one. I guess it all started when Notre Dame hired Gerry Faust, who was called "Rah Rah" by a friend of mine. Despite hype in South Bend of him winning the next 5 national titles (yeah, that was actually said), he flopped.
So, just curious what you think about personalities and coaching and which personalities have what it takes to win it all?
Over the years I've grown more and more skeptical of the coaches who tend to be engage is overly emotional hype. They do seem to win a lot but never seem to win the big one. I guess it all started when Notre Dame hired Gerry Faust, who was called "Rah Rah" by a friend of mine. Despite hype in South Bend of him winning the next 5 national titles (yeah, that was actually said), he flopped.
So, just curious what you think about personalities and coaching and which personalities have what it takes to win it all?