"Harrison loves to stress the negative. If you make a mistake. Harrison will yank you right out of the line-up. A number of times people went into the game as substitutes and made mistakes the first time they got the ball. Harrison immediately took them out of the line-up," he said.

However the player noted that at the end of the season Harrison really lost touch with the team. He explained that while the team did not have much trouble getting up for the final two games of the season against Columbia and Cornell, they played poorly and Harrison refused to fly home with them. "When we got onto the airplane after the Cornell game, Harrison wasn't there and in fact I don't think anyone saw him after the game ended," he said.

The player explained that relations between team members and Harrison grew so strained that Harrison made only a brief appearance at the team's banquet.

"Harrison only stayed for a couple of minutes. He walked into the room and asked Floyd Lewis if he hated him. Floyd said 'No Coach. I don't hate you' and Harrison said 'You're the only one that doesn't'. Harrison left immediately after that exchange," the player said.

Another player who played on the team two seasons ago echoed the other player's comments. He stressed the fact that Harrison criticized players unmercifully and never offered any personal encouragement.

"Harrison's criticisms weren't fair. They were meant to humiliate you personally. He would refer to people on the team as "dummy" or "stupid" and insult their basic intelligence," he said.

The former player explained that the result was that he was unable to judge what should have been taken as honest criticism. He said he recognized that he made mistakes but because of Harrison's constant yelling he "just erected a barrier to everything he said."