Iowa State women’s basketball coach Bill Fennelly, less than a month ago:
“The stuff that isn’t going well, I have to fix,” Fennelly said. “There will be changes made.”
Fennelly often shoulders the blame for his team’s performance, such as after a loss at Oklahoma in 2011:
“The last play we practice all the time, but it’s my fault. For some reason we ran it the wrong way. We ran it backwards. We practice it all the time. Lauren is left handed and we were trying to come up on the left side and aired the ball on the right side. Obviously that falls on me and we got to be more attentive to the attention to detail and running that play a little better.”
But compare to Iowa State wrestling coach Kevin Dresser, last week:
“I was a wrestler once, too, and when we lost, you didn’t hear (Dan) Gable say in one press conference, ‘It’s my fault the team got beat.’ No. He put it on us. They put it on us to the point where when you walked off the mat and you didn’t do a good job, you could expect another workout within 45 minutes of the dual meet being over. And you didn’t question it. We need to have a little more of that.”
There are different dynamics at work here but I just thought it was an interesting contrast of how these men approach being a coach.