FOF : can changing the head-coach be what separates winners from losers ?

[Darkiller]

Following a sub-par season, have you already tried keeping the same team all-together but just changing the head-coach to see if his different ways of calling offensive and defensive plays can be the difference between losing and winning (again, using the exact same group of players) ?

In my solo career, I've recently had a very disapointing 8-8 season although my roster was loaded with quality players so I thought about this :

1- my players indeed have talent because they have gone 12-4 as a team in each of the past three seasons, so they proved -more than once- that they could win.
2- these players are not that old and can still play at a high level.

so I figured :
"this team, with all these championship players on board, mush have underachieved more than anything else."
And thus I began to think that the reason for that could be that my 10th year head-coach, who turns 65 and is now "good in offensive playcalling and fair un defensive playcalling", might just not be the right man anymore.

Therefore, I fired him and replaced him by a better head-coach (at calling plays) and kept intact my exact same team, players, gameplan etc.
The result was a 13-3 season the following year.

That has me thinking : how much of an inpact on the game itself (winning/losing) do you think the head-coach has ?
Is it possible that he would be "above" the players themselves as far as separating a winning team from a losing one ?

[Darkiller]

bump

[Franklinnoble]

Were there any key injuries in the 8-8 season?

I've never seen a coaching change make THAT much difference.. I have, however, had a similar experience... I don't have hard data, but I distinctly remember one career where a coaching change took a playoff team all the way to a title.

It could also be just good luck, or a cumulative cohesion hit...

[MrBug708]

Well, it would make sense though