Curious as to What Underhill and Triplett Are Saying about Organizational Change

rsmith2783 said

I give the benefit of the doubt because I didn't pay attention to TC around his tenure. But if scaling back cost him, then I know he regrets it. I aslo personally believe that players didn't respect him. I noticed the body language of the players and at times DA attempted to sound like Payton too much.
I remember Keenan Lewis made a statement awhile back (years before Payton stepped down) saying that DA didn't have the right people skills. Maybe there's some truth to that.

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Yeah I can see it, DA didn’t seem like a personable guy. Appeared more down to business, I have a job to do, you have a job to do. I’ll do mine, I expect you to do yours.

I think that can work for some coaches but I think it helps when you connect w/ people.

He seemed like a guy whose office door was always closed. You only saw him during practices and he wasn’t going to ask how are your wife and kids doing. Wasn’t likely to strike up a convo w/ someone walking by in the hall.

You can tell he put a lot of emphasis on having veteran players in the lockerroom to keep a pulse on it so he didn’t have to develop those relationships