Great post Cathy!  Some thoughts..
 
At 06:31 AM 1/20/97 -0500, Cathy Hart wrote:
 
>I fully expect the team to go the rest of the season winning.  That has as
>much to do with the attitude of the team as it does with Walsh.  For whatever
>reason, sometime in December I noticed a profound change in attitude in key
>players on the team, Reggie Cardinal for one.  With all the attention given
>to Coach's return, that aspect has gone significantly unnoticed.
 
Last week before Walsh's return, Larry Mahoney wrote an article about Cardinal.
 
>Maybe now, with everyone and everything back to "normal" our attention can
>re-focus on this terrific team.  I have been around a long time, and will
>tell you I have never seen such development of character as in this team.
> That, in part, is the legacy of Cronin.  What they do with it is theirs.
 
This is a good point.  The ship did not sink under Cronin, and no one doubts
that it will sail again under Walsh.  This time hopefully in the right
direction.
 
Regardless of what you think of Cronin, you have to applaude him for keeping
things together despite mounting circumstances.  Things could have been much
worse than they were.
 
Cronin may have greater success elsewhere.  He was always under the shadow
of Walsh, and no matter what happened he would have always been compared to
Walsh.
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