CHICAGO (AP) — New Florida coach Tom Rowe met with captain Derek MacKenzie and the rest of the Panthers’ leadership on Monday. He talked to the whole team on Tuesday.
Rowe knows Gerald Gallant is well-liked in Florida’s locker room, and he wanted to be as transparent as possible on why the coach was let go just 22 games into the season.
“I came in and I told them, I said ‘Listen, we’re not going to change a whole lot. We need to tweak a few things,'” Rowe said. “But if I came in here and wasn’t sensitive to that, it just wouldn’t work.