Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.
You're the quarterback, if you lose games... it's the head coach and the quarterback. If you're not winning, it's on you.
You always wonder how a coach's demeanor will be going from assistant to head coach. They can kind of change, the personality, and you don't know how that will affect the team or how they see him.
I will miss the ladies and the passion of the Sun fans. I was proud to serve as their head coach.
The burdens of being a head coach are different from being an assistant. If I had been an assistant coach for awhile, then become a head coach, I probably would have lasted longer.
I was a 52-year-old coach. But people don't realize I had 25 years as a head coach. Most coaches my age only had a few years as head coach. I had six years at Miami of Ohio, eight years at Northwestern, 11 at Notre Dame.
There are things that I will think about, that I have been a part of because I was the head coach at UCLA, that I will always cherish. I grew up loving this program as a kid.
When you become a head coach, you've played the game; you've coached the game. You have a great understanding of what happens at every level.
The captain tag is something that every head coach in this league takes seriously.
There's so much more involved with the game than just sitting there, looking at the numbers and saying, 'OK, these are my percentages, then I'm going to do it this way,' because that one time it doesn't work could cost your team a football game, and that's the thing a head coach has to live with, not the professor.
