Jennifer Lee Iwen wrote:
 
> While Jeff Sauer has a lot of wins for Wisconsin and two NCAA
> Championships, he's not a "program-building" type of coach...  his
> championship team in 1983 was recruited by Bob Johnson, and Sauer
> even admits that it was not HIS team, but Johnson's. His team in
> 1990 was so talent-stocked (Shuchuk, Tancill, Derksen, Osiecki, etc)
> and played so well together that they probably could have won if *I*
> had coached them :)
 
        O.K., so who recruited that talent-stocked 1990 team?
 
        Also, why are some many people claiming that Parker and Sauer
"inherited" great teams and therfore are not great coaches or program
builders?  The last time I checked college teams had players leave
every year and new ones take their places.
 
        Sauer and Parker have had to work at keeping their teams among the
elite in college hockey.  In fact, this year is the first time since
becoming Wisconsin's head coach that Sauer will likely have a team
with a losing record.  Even though both coaches took over great
programs, they have kept them among the elite.  I personally think
that keeping a program among the elite is much harder than building a
program.
 
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