Quick Hits
What an amazing day in sports we had yesterday. Bobby Bowden retires, Charlie Weis gets canned (along with Al Groh – which I predicted in the ACC Preview this year), Tiger Woods is human afterall, and that’s not including any actual sports that did or did not take place. It’s hard to tell that any did take place because I don’t really see any headlines on ESPN indicating that they did. That’s right, none of the top 10 top headlines concern actual games or matchups. Just about who’s retired, fired, traded, arrested and injured. What a day. Just a couple quick thoughts:
-I don’t really care much about the Tiger Woods deal. I will say that his driving has never been his forte. That tree and hydrant just jumped right out there just like the rough seems to. I’m sure he now realizes how much worse it is to shank an SUV into a tree than a 5 wood into one.
-I think Bobby and FSU are making the right choice even though it’s tough. They are falling behind to Florida and Miami quickly, and although I don’t think Jimbo Fisher is the right man for the job, something needed to be done. Recruits and players need to know who the coach is going to be down the road before they commit. Florida is going to lose a lot of talent on defense next year and Tebow, so they need to capitolize on that opportunity and stabilitity at the head coaching position is a step in the right direction.
-That said, I think this just proves how disasterous the coach-in-waiting scenario can be. I’m very much against the coach-in-waiting clauses and think you will see more and more of them play out with excess drama, wasted millions, and at the expense of the players. I understand succession planning in the workplace and see it’s value, but the circumstances are completely different with football. Recruiting, media, and publicity of the whole thing make it a much more fragile proposition. One can only ponder how many more transitions will have to implode before administrations begin to see it as the bad idea that it is.
-I enjoyed this article by Drew Sharp that appeared in last weeks USA Today. He indicates very pointedly that like GM and the rest of the American auto industry, ND and Michigan need to re-invent themselves before they become completely irrelevant. Turns out, selling cars is more than just brand name, and winning football games is too. Brand name doesn’t last forever, you have to constantly update your image, brand, and business to keep up with the times. GM didn’t do that, neither have ND and Michigan. They need to turn things around soon, irrelavance is standing at the and it’s knocking.
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