Is it just me or has the wide world of sports 
gone a little nuts lately? (a.k.a. developed some cajones)? What do I mean exactly?!!
Well, humor me just for a while...is this year's firing and hiring of football coaches gone a little to the extreme or did some object land on my noggin making me more aware this year of how quick teams are these days to hire and fire their coaches.
I guess the time had to come in this world of big bucks/big games when the team owners and the respective affiliates would grow tired of losing more games than posting the ole proverbial check in the "win column"? Teams are tired of being losers. It is about time - that's what I say anyway.
I just hope that my 'Boys
from Big D are beneficiaries from all these daring but "it's about freakin time" type of moves. I hope that Jason Garrett proves to be worthy of leading them to a better season than the one we just saw go so wayward. It was supposed to be the year of the Cowboys; we were supposed to see our team make the play-offs with more ease than it had seen in recent years. It was supposed to be the year that "America's Team" went to the Super Bowl. Quite fitting it would have been too as it would have seen Dallas play Super Bowl XLV in their own brand-new stadium. The first super bowl played in Cowboys Stadium' - the latest and perhaps the greatest sporting venue thus far anywhere. The inaugural season of the best stadium in the world... Maybe even the most vulgar as well when one considers the cost of bringing it to Arlington (even though Dallas-based tax dollars were voted on to build it). Equally as vulgar in how much it costs to see a game (e.g. Cowboys, NFL, collegiate, etc.) or other events during these hard economic times which sees people scrambling for jobs, money and such and most cannot afford to attend a game there. As a die-hard Dallas fan, though, I am allowed to spew out these facts, but I will not allow anyone else (e.g. Cowboy antagonists) to recite them. Kidding. Maybe not! Cowboys Stadium still rocks, and I cannot wait for the day when I can afford to attend a game -any event- there. I have seen it from afar and on the tele, but this fanatic wishes to see it in person - not picky on the event, I just want to be inside of it.
Anyway, as I was saying before my way-off tangent, it is nice to see teams finally find a back-bone and start holding respective coaches and staff accountable for their teams lousy play, mediocre performance, non-chalant and pathetic attitudes, and losing seasons. If a coach cannot bring more victories to the team within three years of being hired, then I say to the team owner(s) and all parties affected..."Go for it, fire that bum!"!!! Most of them make a huge amount of money anyway and should be set for life after three years and can afford to be fired if they cannot bring a winning season or championship to their team. The same goes for college. Fire the coaches that are less productive.
I am hoping that my Texas Tech
Red Raiders are also beneficiaries of replacing losing coaches after three years on the collegiate level. I am still not convinced that Tommy Tuberville is the answer for our football program to survive the Texas Tech Admin-incited 'Coach Leach fiasco' from 2009. Tubs is not showing us much even if it is his first year as HC for Tech. I have said it time after time over a million times, Tuberville inherited a heckuva team when he -off the record- agreed to play "scab" an entire year before Coach Leach was officially fired (those allegations are for another time, another post). Tubs should have led our Red Raiders to, at best, a 10-3 season maybe even a 9-4 season but NOT the 8-5 season we saw. For certain our bowl bid should have been to a better one...quizas even a BCS bowl. I still want "our Captain" back.
I would gladly take on any of the current job openings available in the NFL and in the NCAA. LOL!!! Anyway...as an acquaintance of mine used to say..."later days!"!!!
gone a little nuts lately? (a.k.a. developed some cajones)? What do I mean exactly?!!Well, humor me just for a while...is this year's firing and hiring of football coaches gone a little to the extreme or did some object land on my noggin making me more aware this year of how quick teams are these days to hire and fire their coaches.
I guess the time had to come in this world of big bucks/big games when the team owners and the respective affiliates would grow tired of losing more games than posting the ole proverbial check in the "win column"? Teams are tired of being losers. It is about time - that's what I say anyway.
I just hope that my 'Boys
from Big D are beneficiaries from all these daring but "it's about freakin time" type of moves. I hope that Jason Garrett proves to be worthy of leading them to a better season than the one we just saw go so wayward. It was supposed to be the year of the Cowboys; we were supposed to see our team make the play-offs with more ease than it had seen in recent years. It was supposed to be the year that "America's Team" went to the Super Bowl. Quite fitting it would have been too as it would have seen Dallas play Super Bowl XLV in their own brand-new stadium. The first super bowl played in Cowboys Stadium' - the latest and perhaps the greatest sporting venue thus far anywhere. The inaugural season of the best stadium in the world... Maybe even the most vulgar as well when one considers the cost of bringing it to Arlington (even though Dallas-based tax dollars were voted on to build it). Equally as vulgar in how much it costs to see a game (e.g. Cowboys, NFL, collegiate, etc.) or other events during these hard economic times which sees people scrambling for jobs, money and such and most cannot afford to attend a game there. As a die-hard Dallas fan, though, I am allowed to spew out these facts, but I will not allow anyone else (e.g. Cowboy antagonists) to recite them. Kidding. Maybe not! Cowboys Stadium still rocks, and I cannot wait for the day when I can afford to attend a game -any event- there. I have seen it from afar and on the tele, but this fanatic wishes to see it in person - not picky on the event, I just want to be inside of it.Anyway, as I was saying before my way-off tangent, it is nice to see teams finally find a back-bone and start holding respective coaches and staff accountable for their teams lousy play, mediocre performance, non-chalant and pathetic attitudes, and losing seasons. If a coach cannot bring more victories to the team within three years of being hired, then I say to the team owner(s) and all parties affected..."Go for it, fire that bum!"!!! Most of them make a huge amount of money anyway and should be set for life after three years and can afford to be fired if they cannot bring a winning season or championship to their team. The same goes for college. Fire the coaches that are less productive.
I am hoping that my Texas Tech
Red Raiders are also beneficiaries of replacing losing coaches after three years on the collegiate level. I am still not convinced that Tommy Tuberville is the answer for our football program to survive the Texas Tech Admin-incited 'Coach Leach fiasco' from 2009. Tubs is not showing us much even if it is his first year as HC for Tech. I have said it time after time over a million times, Tuberville inherited a heckuva team when he -off the record- agreed to play "scab" an entire year before Coach Leach was officially fired (those allegations are for another time, another post). Tubs should have led our Red Raiders to, at best, a 10-3 season maybe even a 9-4 season but NOT the 8-5 season we saw. For certain our bowl bid should have been to a better one...quizas even a BCS bowl. I still want "our Captain" back.I would gladly take on any of the current job openings available in the NFL and in the NCAA. LOL!!! Anyway...as an acquaintance of mine used to say..."later days!"!!!
