Word: mclaughlin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sign of the times for Harvard basketball hangs over coach Frank McLaughlin's desk in the IAB: "The difficult we do immediately, the impossible takes a little longer...
...that the mesmerizing honeymoon between Cambridge hoop fans and their gung-ho, energetic, "you've gotta believe" messiah is over, the major question becomes, can Francis X. McLaughlin succeed where others have failed and build a winning program...
...answer this query, you must go beyond the slick, master-salesman style that characterizes the amiable former Notre Dame assistant coach and led one Boston columnist to crack that McLaughlin would have made a mint selling Arizona real estate...
Instead, like so many things in this increasingly bureaucratized world, success off the court revolves around organizational efficiency and follow-through. Fortunately, McLaughlin and his right arm, Terry O'Connor (Harvard's first full-time assistant varsity coach), are in good condition...
...against Penn gave our program some credibility," McLaughlin said, planning to take advantage of a new Harvard athletic department policy permitting a limited system of active recruiting (rather than the former passive system of alumni referrals and phone calls) by members of its coaching staffs...