Players still have to buy into what Mac has to say...from what I can see the team has lost faith in Mac. A lot of this is due to player rotation and not getting into the flow of the game. Mac gets sub happy and players don't know when they are going to go in or come out.[/QUOTE
SOme of that is not up to Mac. The only way you make players by in is by winning. If they don't buy in, you don't win. It's a viscous cycle.
I really don't know any other way to make a team buy in other than sitting down with the team and having a very serious team meeting in which he talks about them having to trust him. A bad system of theory by a coach is better than no system. He has to get that into there head. I really hope this thing turns around for Mac. He is just the type of guy I want coaching our team. Right now we do not have anything but exceptional people coaching our teams and I do not want to sacrifice that for wins.