What made things even tougher for Strong is that he is not a hail-fellow-well-met the way Brown was throughout his coaching career.

Marra, an extrovert and self-described “little Italian peacock,” has a reassuring, gravelly laugh, but his hail-fellow-well-met manner comes in the face of some personal adversity.

One of the pilots climbing down from his X-Wing is Oscar Isaac’s Poe Dameron, who gives him a hearty “hail-fellow-well-met.”