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Well, given the Head Coach is in charge of everything, it's both coach and players.

I signed up for Rivals to satisfy my curiosity. My takeaway: it is largely incorrect to blame the coach in this case. I mean if you want to get very abstract and philosophical you could conclude Haase deserves some small fraction of the blame. But this is basically on some of the players. Some things are beyond the control of any coach. And sometimes good kids make bad decisions.

Despite the many challenges the team faced this season, Haase had the team performing well under the circumstances until the last few games. I see the first ~90% of the season as far more indicative of Haase and his coaching than the last 10%.

Just my two cents.

If it's that much of a player issue, then Haase should just come out and say "these players are suspended/benched for today's game for conduct detrimental to the team" or something like that. Couching it as "team cohesion" and not saying anything until after the game is a really poor way to handle it. It's unclear and just leads to confusion and speculation. It's not like he was trying to do some kind of head fake on the opposing coach that they might be available - they weren't dressed to play.

Haase has coached more than long enough to know better than to handle it the way he has.

I'm not sure I agree with the 90/10 split but whatever that second number is, the problem is that it has come mainly in February & March in each of the last three seasons (including this one).

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Well, given the Head Coach is in charge of everything, it's both coach and players.

I signed up for Rivals to satisfy my curiosity. My takeaway: it is largely incorrect to blame the coach in this case. I mean if you want to get very abstract and philosophical you could conclude Haase deserves some small fraction of the blame. But this is basically on some of the players. Some things are beyond the control of any coach. And sometimes good kids make bad decisions.

Despite the many challenges the team faced this season, Haase had the team performing well under the circumstances until the last few games. I see the first ~90% of the season as far more indicative of Haase and his coaching than the last 10%.

Just my two cents.

If it's that much of a player issue, then Haase should just come out and say "these players are suspended/benched for today's game for conduct detrimental to the team" or something like that. Couching it as "team cohesion" and not saying anything until after the game is a really poor way to handle it. It's unclear and just leads to confusion and speculation. It's not like he was trying to do some kind of head fake on the opposing coach that they might be available - they weren't dressed to play.

Haase has coached more than long enough to know better than to handle it the way he has.

I'm not sure I agree with the 90/10 split but whatever that second number is, the problem is that it has come mainly in February & March in each of the last three seasons (including this one).