Quote:As far as Head Coaching approach/balance goes, remember, you can come in as a super strict disciplinarian (like TC did) and have a lot of rules that the players will hate but must follow or be fined or punished in some way and then at some point in your head coaching career, pull back the reigns on some of those strict rules and fines and still be a successful HC who adjusted his coaching style to a less strict style which the players will like more then the super strict style.

 

If you come in as a player friendly, buddy, buddy type of HC, and are NOT overly strict in your rules, then you will have an extremely hard time trying to become more of a disciplinarian type of HC if things aren't going well for you under the player friendly type of coaching and you feel the need to get stricter with your team. That's usually a recipe for disaster.

 

But you don't need to be overtly strict in any case. What you need to do is to make certain that the rules are understood by everyone and hold to those rules. Del Rio was infamous for punishing guys on an almost arbitrary basis and it drove the Locker Room nuts. You don't have to be a yeller, you just have to enforce the rules.

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