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Through the course of the season, five members of the squad decided to quit playing, and the last two, senior transfer Hal Calbom and junior transfer Vince Lackner, cited disagreements with head coach Bob Harrison's coaching as their reasons for quitting...
Both Calbom, who alternated starting at forward with Marshall Sanders, and Lackner, who was a reserve forward, wrote separate, though similar, five-page letters to Harrison, explaining their reasons...
According to Lackner, who has spoken to most of the team, the reaction of most of the players to his letter was generally favorable. "At least, no one to whom I spoke expressed disfavor to me," he said yesterday...
Most of Calbom's and Lackner's criticism centered on what they called Harrison's authoritarian style of coaching. This resulted, they said, in undue pressure on the players to perform, and ultimately in the team losing games it shouldn't have lost...
However, yesterday he said that he was "willing to accept the responsibility for not having made them [Calbom and Lackner] happy, I'm going to try to change in the future, and I'm sure that their criticism will help us deal more effectively with individual players' attitudes...