Comments on: Petrino Supposedly Going to Hell

By: gehenna

gehenna — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 05:33:27 +0000

I’ll add that I’m not a big fan of firing coaches in the middle of the season. It almost never does any good (at least in football; I’ve seen it work in Hockey, baseball, and other lesser sports).

By: gehenna

gehenna — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 05:31:57 +0000

First, a coach who gets fired still gets their money since they had a contract (or at least a buyout is negotiated). So the coach gets a paid holiday for the rest of the year. Poor him. By definition, when a coach is fired, the team is prepared to move on without them, so nobody else is harmed any more than they would be if he had been fired at the end of the season. On the other hand, if a coach quits, it leaves the team and players in the lurch. So I don’t think it’s an even comparison. The coach makes a commitment to coach for that season; the owners make a commitment to pay the coach for coaching that season. There’s an important distinction there.

By: splash

splash — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:24:41 +0000

I fully agree with gehenna here but one thing did give me pause.I can’t remember a time a coach has quit midseason but I can think of plenty of times owners fired them. So if you can be fired without notice where you hear it from the press first hasn’t that set the bar for what coaches do back to owners?