“One of the things that I really looked into is, why has a repeat never been done? Is it a change of personnel? Is it complacency? Is it timing? To make sure that doesn’t happen I had alot of individual meetings … and that was one of the questions I posed to players: Are you as hungry? Do you feel as focused? The resounding response was ‘yes.’ These players wantto make history.”

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