the bus back from P.W.: Schtitt, shrillest after a win

The regimen's refusal to let victory soften it: Schtitt vanishes home alone and reappears "at dawn drills with deLint and elaborate work-ups of everything that had gone wrong the day before," and he is "particularly shrill and insistent and negative after they'd won something." Winning is precisely when the doctrine bears down hardest — the coach mines the triumph for error, because the plateau-and-slog pedagogy holds that comfort is the enemy of improvement. The body is never allowed to rest on a result; the day after the shields come home, the failures get itemized before breakfast.