The last few weeks i've been ranting about athletes that don't deserve to be highly compensated for different reasons...but i've never really given much attention to coaches that are also highly paid and in my opinion don't deserve to be. Yes, coaches are also grossly overpaid especially at the college level, but some get the label of being great coaches and for reasons i don't understand...here are a few examples that i have...
1. Bill Parcells- i don't get it, he's won one super bowl, every team he goes to flames out after a few years after he's there. what innovations did he make to the game? what transcendent schemes did he work up that has put him into the echelon of coaching greats? i don't get it. seems to me like he's a decent coach that has coached some great teams and don't absolutely average. get out of here bill.
2. Roy williams- yep you've won two national championships. again. you've coached at kansas and north carolina. AND when you won at North Carolina it wasn't the players YOU recruited it was Matt Doherty who was actually a pretty decent coach and obvioiusly good recruiter. since....you recruit medicore players who don't really translate into nba players...and you're the coach at north carolina...roy shut up.
3. Jeff Fisher- AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. why!!!!! he has like a .500 winning percentage in the nfl despite having hall of fame talent at half the positions! jesus....and he was supposed to lead st louis back to the elite teams and since he's arrived...they are .500. Jeff...shave off your mustache. please.
4. Les Miles- 1 championship. that's it. and his team rarely makes adjustments. he's overrated as hell. he recruits very well i'll give him that, but he's a shitty coach.
5. Rick Barnes- Texas Basketball Coach- every year he has a team filled with next level studs. every year his teams flame out. every year he reloads, rinse and repeat. he's a joke. he's the absolute worst college coach of an elite team in college basketball. He's the opposite of Tom Izzo who is 13-1 in the round of 32 the last 15 years and who's players play way above expectations. Rick Barnes you suck.
Who would you add to the list?
I never quite got the Bill Parcells love, either. I kind of feel the same way about John Gruden. They both seem fine, but not as accomplished as their reputation might suggest. Fisher strikes me as steadily competent and never catastrophic--a safe choice. I have no idea who Rick Barnes is.
ReplyDeleteI'd imagine winning coaches are worth what they get paid in pro sports. For instance, I think the going rate for 1 WAR on the free agent market in baseball is $6-7 million; pretty sure there aren't any managers making that much, but you're telling me Joe Maddon isn't worth at least a win a season?
College sports are a bit different. A lot of those coaches' salaries are ridiculous, but lots of the money is also coming from boosters. I suppose it's possible that money would wind up at the school some other way, and be spent more productively, if it wasn't on a coach, but I am less than totally convinced boosters would give for other purposes. I dunno.