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Generally, Coach Harrison has sent his team out without any offensive strategy, refused to play a zone defense where it clearly would have been more beneficial, and failed to teach fundamental basketball. Specifically...
...only to watch James for a short time to realize what he could have done. Surely playing for Harrison has hurt his chances to make a pro team, as well as those of Floyd and Marshall. If Harrison stays, he will undoubtedly have the same effect on Tony Jenkins, Jim Fitzsimmons and Kenny Wolfe. Certainly, as long as Bob Harrison is coach, no senior in high school who feels he can play professionally and would like an Ivy education is going to consider Harvard...
...exciting experiment here at Harvard," they announced. "We believe that we can build a nationally competitive basketball program at a school with no basketball tradition which, when combined with Harvard's academic excellence, will offer a young man one of the most potentially rewarding experiences of his life." Bob Harrison, having left a successful program at Kenyon College to come to Harvard, was the main impetus behind the new experiment, which almost overnight brought national attention to the doorstep...
...player whom I have always liked and respected, offered his explanations of this failure in a recent letter to the Sports Editors. Cogent, often accurate, but dangerously deceptive, Bozek's expose points to two main contributing factors: first, "the unworkable situation of 'big-time basketball' and 'academia'"; and second, Harrison's total incompetence as a coach. Due to the possible impact that Bozek's assessments may have upon the direction of the Harvard basketball program, these points deserve serious comment...
While it is now clear that I reject without reservation the first argument which Bozek makes in his attempt to explain the failure of the Harvard basketball experiment, there is little room for dispute on his second point--that Coach Harrison is "the next problem which must be eliminated." I have but one reservation in this regard and it concerns the degree of responsibility. Due to his strong belief in the incompatibility theory, Bozek necessarily views Harrison's incompetence as only a part of the problem which has torn Harvard basketball dreams asunder. However, Mr. Harrison is in fact...