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...director of Athletics said yesterday that neither of former basketball coach Bob Harrison's assistants were assured of jobs for next season...
Robert B. Watson said yesterday that it was still "unclear" whether Earnest Hardy, coach Harrison's principal assistant, or Bob Hart, the JV coach, would return next season...
...Harrison's defensive strategy was suspect, his offensive approach was no better. Two years ago Harrison tried to install a new offense for every opponent. All that this approach achieved was confusion among his own ball players, and it did little to baffle the opposition. This year Harrison installed one basic offense. However, the new approach was little better than the old, because it only served to freeze last year's high scorer Jim Fitzsimmons out of the offensive picture or resulted in low percentage shots from the deep corner. At other times the offense degenerated into a pass...
...easy (and justifiable) to fault Harrison as a basketball coach, but one cannot question his deep commitment to the Harvard basketball program and to his ballplayers, and he was more than willing to help out with their personal problems. He often invited them to his home and even loaned them his car for their personal use on occasion. Harrison often paid for scouting expenses out of his own pocket...
...Harrison might not have been a good coach, but he was a nice guy. And unfortunately the nice guy image got in the way when he got down to coaching. The "buddy-buddy" relationships he cultivated with his players off the court ultimately undermined the discipline he sought to exercise on it. Nice guys don't always finish last, but as far as Bob Harrison's Harvard basketball experiment goes, they...