Sir coach,
I will have to agree with b in defending Coach O'Connor. Having played against his team 3 times and seeing him coach basketball multiple times, I have to say that he just works with what what he has. From my perspective, he has an emotional bunch of guys on the team and at the school. Sometimes these emotions can get away from a player, giving the impression of what seems to be a lack of class. This is no fault of a coach, but merely the acting out of a teenage young man. Coach O'Connor plays to the strengths of his guys. They're an emotional bunch so he gets them excited about games and lets them ride that emotion into games. It's like Mack Brown giving Vince Young the reigns to the team a few years ago, changing the policy about music in the locker room before games and during practice sessions. He allows guys to get excited because that's the kind of team he has. Some teams (Fredericksburg comes to mind) thrive under an almost military system of coaching. That does not work for some teams just based on the personnel they have. Coach O'Connor controls his team, just not in the way that others do. He does what he can with the players he has to win football games. And he has really turned that team around. They've always played with a lot of underclassmen and he has really turned that program into one that looks like it can win year in, year out. Having known Coach O'Connor for a few years, I would tell you that he is a great coach as well as a great man who has been doing great things over at Christway.