Fisher's claim to fame is that the players love him.
He is more of a father than a demanding HC. And no one wants to see their father go because they love him, through thick and thin.
Think Bellichek would have permitted Quinn to fly to Rio, miss a few days of camp, to watch his sister in ONE race? No way. Bad message. Watch it on TV and stay here to keep getting better. But, if you want a player to love you forever in lieu of actually being on a winning team, that is exactly what you do.
The good coaches don't want their players' love, they demand their best performance.
Good coaches don't talk interminably about "getting better", they talk about the unacceptability of losing. They have an abhorrence of losing and will do whatever it takes to stop the losing. Not Fisher; he finds the bright side of losing. Some say that's just being positive. What, exactly, is the positive of losing a competitive battle if what you are paid to do is win?
Hitler: we won.
FDR: Yeah but by the end of the war we were getting better at it. And my guys are really nice, try hard guys who love me.
I don't like Fisher's style, coaching, and his always sly grin like he's one step ahead of you or knows some secret that we don't.
His record over 20 years, and especially over the past 4, speaks for itself. And he needs to wipe that sly grin off his face because he hasn't earned it.
