Originally posted by Crow-mosone
you seem surprised?
No I'm not. But I was starting to think that I must have been talking about a different Terry Wallace than the one that coached the Bulldogs, going by all the negative crap that I'd been reading.
Wallace took over a team towards the end of '96 in steep decline and ended up with a winning record of 79 wins, 67 losses, 2 draws. That was with a pretty ordinary list IMO.
He coached for for 6 years, and made the finals in his first 4.
No one could deny that he coached under great financial and facility limitations.
The article desribes him as making an instant impression, not only changing the Bulldog's fortunes, but the way the game was played with an enterprising, perhaps risky, gameplan that broke the model.
That's certainly more how I saw him, rather than a negative coach as some have described him in recent days.
He'd be my choice of coach for the Crows in 2005.