You're pretty smart, aren't you kid?
"Got 1400 on my SATs."
Harvard coaches have a similar problem employing a rah-rah type of leadership. Imagine Bobby Knight, Indiana coach and Hoosier bad boy, coaching the Harvard basketball team. Throwing chairs. Cursing. Telling his players that they should send their games to a laundromat for a complete wash.
The team might respond to such behavior. By laughing.
Harvard captains and coaches have to be more subtle than Knight. Every few years, it's said. Harvard hockey Coach Bill Cleary will show his team the films of the 1960 Olympics.
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The U.S. won the gold medal that year. Cleary was the team's leading scorer.
Enough said.