Teams do take on the personality of their coach.
When coaches coach tight, players play tight and that is what's happening with our Bulls.
When coaches are confident and relaxed, players are confident and relaxed and play that way. Skip is tight, conservative, close to the vest whatever you want to call it and his players take on that persona. He said in the week leading up to Rutgers that it would be low scoring like a baseball game. He also said something about liking 1 point victories. His players pick up on this. His sphincter is so tight it could probably sharpen a pencil. I know it's coach speak,but I'm so tired of listening to his press conferences where he talks about the other teams like they're Packers. It's old.
Leavitt was emotional and undisclipined and his players reacted to it. The emotion carried them to big wins (Auburn, etc) and the undisclipined part cost them games.
Somewhere lies a happy medium.
Have we gotten a personal foul or late hit penalty this year? I honestly can't remember.
Skip needs to coach with more confidence and lose the conservative tight approach. Let it rip Skip. There's still time.