“What specifically made you say this is the guy? It’s like coaching, it’s not a specific thing. It’s the whole… there is no one thing, it’s a thousand little things. You have to start with the command of the material—the subject matter, your knowledge of the game, your ability to access that knowledge quickly in the spur of the moment. Sean’s foundation, that’s where it started, but everything he talked about was how you teach those things, how you break those things down into smaller parts that organizationally we can measure, and how you bake that into the improvement of our team and not just try to win a game or win a season, but really sort of build a program. In Sean Sweeney, we have somebody who in our minds has the potential to be one of the elite coaches in this league. He’s a direct communicator, he has a mastery of the material, and he has an understanding of how this is supposed to work from a player standpoint to a team standpoint.”
