Your favorite team's worst coach

[The Czech Republic 0]

I don't know about Coaches...but I can tell you I have a problem with our rookie QB:

 

Boy...I can't wait to see him play.

 

*cries*

"That, more than anything, is what led to my drinking problem."

[Der Kommissar 0]

Boy...I can't wait to see him play.

 

*cries*

 

Look on the bright side...at least it's not Rob Johnson.

[2GOLD 0]

I don't know about Coaches...but I can tell you I have a problem with our rookie QB:

 

Boy...I can't wait to see him play.

 

*cries*

"That, more than anything, is what led to my drinking problem."

 

So somewhere, Mularkey is saying, "Looks like I picked the wrong season to quit sniffing glue."

 

And look on the bright side, he's learning QB from Drew....Bledsoe....

 

My god, this kid is doomed.

[The Czech Republic 0]

"When do you think you'll be ready to play, son?"

"I can't tell."

"You can tell me. I'm a doctor."

"No, its that I'm just not sure."

"Can you make a guess?"

"Well, not for another two weeks."

"You can't make a guess for another two weeks?"

[The Ghost of bps21 0]

Yeah...the last guy that developed behind Drew ended up sucking great big donkey balls. Good point.

 

You can bash his talent all you want too...but bashing Drew as a standup guy and a team player isn't going to get too far.

 

The Giants draft Eli Manning...and Kerry Collins demands his release. The Bills draft JP Losman and Bledsoe takes a paycut and calls him after the pick.

[Drury37 0]

Knicks-Don Cheney

Rangers-Bryan Trottier (He is an Islander I mean come on!!!)

Giants-Not sure on this one.

Yankees-Tough one because if a manager is bad Steinbrenner gets rid of them before they even have a chance.

Notre Dame Football-Bob Davie because I don't count George O'Leary as being the the coach of the Irish.

St. John's-Fran Frascilla

Thanks.

[Guest Vitamin X]

Doesn't the Marlins last manager just have to win this by default?

 

He had the World Series Champions under .500.

 

You just can't say that about too many coaches...

Jon Gruden's Bucs went 7-9 with essentially the same team that went to the Super Bowl.

 

With that said...

 

Green Bay - Ray Rhodes. WHAT THE FUCK WERE THEY THINKING?!

 

Los Angeles - Not altogether too sure, but I do recall the guy who was from UCLA that got fired mid-season before Phil Jackson came in was quite a klutz.

 

Colorado- I can't remember names here, but after the Avs won their first cup as the Avs, they went crap for a couple years. I remember that coach got fired and replaced with a better one.

 

Florida- Torburg. Already been mentioned why.

[ISportsFan 0]

Blackhawks: Alpo Suhonen. I don't even know if his last name is spelled right, but his style of hockey he wanted us to play sucked and guaranteed we would lose, and he liked bad European players over good North American ones because they fit the "style." But, the fault really lies with Bill Wirtz's lack of money spending and the GMs like Pulford and Smith who can't get the job done.

 

White Sox: During my lifetime, Terry "Boom Boom" Bevington was not very good. Jerry Manuel was an underachiever, Jeff Torborg wasn't anything special, but Bevington was just bad.

 

Bears: Dave Wannestedt, at least during my lifetime. No question. Dick Jauron at least had one good year, but Wannestedt was worthless.

 

Jason

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

Phillies- Doc Prothro. Three years as manager ('39-'41). Finished 50-103 in his BEST year. Dallas Green is second, purely for his tendency to make Dusty Baker look like Billy Beane.

[Jorge Gorgeous 0]

Also - as a man who switched his aliegance from the Buffalo Bills to the Miami Dolphins in the mid-90's, I wasn't happy about Jimmy Johnson's Cowboy Ass coming to coach my team.

Jimmy built the defense, bringing in guys like Zach Thomas, Sam Madison, etc., while also working to build a running game - 2 of the biggest weaknesses of the team during the Marino-era. He basically laid the foundation for the current team, so I can't see how you'd be disappointed with bringing him in.

 

You're totally right... it was just a personal Cowboy bitterness thing left over from the early 90s.

[DerangedHermit 0]

Mets: Jeff Torborg and Dallas Green ::shudders:: Art Howe may end up here, if he continues to be so fuckin' laid back. I want Bobby V back.

 

Rangers: Bryan Trottier and Sather

[Vern Gagne 0]

The Twins-Ray Miller. Managed right before Tom Kelly took over. A good pitching coach, but looked lost has a manager.

 

The Wolves-Take your pick. Sidney Lowe, Jimmy Rogers, Bill Blair.

 

Gopher Hoops-Dan Monson. Bad recruiter, overmatched in major conference play. The up coming season could be one of the worst ever.

 

Gopher Football-Jim Wacker was just down right bad.

[Rob E Dangerously 0]

During my time

 

KC Chiefs: Gunther Cunningham

 

KC Royals: Tony Muser. The guy who wanted players to stop drinking milk and start drinking tequila.

 

Orrrrrr...

 

Bob Boone.

 

Let's go over the sins of Boone.

 

Oh, come now.  Not a single one of Boone's "ideas" in Kansas City had to

do with trying to get the most out of little talent.  It's not like he

was handed the Baltimore Orioles; the Royals were 3 games from the Wild

Card at the time of the strike with McRae and this was *before*

practically all the young talent came up. 

 

Boone was handed a team with some upside and proceeded to lead them to a

worse record in every subsequent season and derailing or destroying the

careers of practically every single one of the young players on the team.

 

Not a single one of his "ideas" in Kansas City can be explained away as

making the best of a bad situation.  He tried to make Jose Offerman a 1B. 

He refused to play Johnny Damon over Bip Roberts or Tom Goodwin and after

being bashed in the media by his own organization, would only let Damon

split playing time with Yamil Benitez and eventually only gave Damon the

starting job when Herk had dumped every possible alternative.  He played

Vince Coleman for a whole season in left.  He burned out Jose Rosado's

arm.  He repeatedly tried to make bad utility infielder Dave Howard the

starting shortstop.  He refused to play Mike Sweeney over Tim Spehr.  He

made Keith Lockhart (who was excellent at the time) split time with the

wretched Edgar Caceres.  He repeatedly tried to make Craig Paquette a

starter.  After a very good 1995, Boone gave up on Nunnally because of a

bad spring training in 1996.  He was the main force behind the

acquisition of old player after old player.

 

Boone took whatever talent the Royals had and urinated on it.  Mike

Sweeney, Glendon Rusch, Jose Rosado, Jon Nunnally, Bob Hamelin, Johnny

Damon, and Kevin Young *all* had their careers severely derailed under

Boone's watch so that players like Craig Paquette, Scott Cooper, Tom

Goodwin, David Howard, and other Bob Boone pets could show that they

stunk.

 

That says a bit..

 

Before my time

 

KC Chiefs: Frank Gansz

[2GOLD 0]

Yeah...the last guy that developed behind Drew ended up sucking great big donkey balls. Good point.

 

You can bash his talent all you want too...but bashing Drew as a standup guy and a team player isn't going to get too far.

 

The Giants draft Eli Manning...and Kerry Collins demands his release. The Bills draft JP Losman and Bledsoe takes a paycut and calls him after the pick.

 

Hell no, I like Drew very much. I want the Bills to win a Super Bowl with him at QB and I'm a Pats fan. Heck, Drew got the Pats into the Super Bowl against Pittsburgh so I hold no ill will towards him. And yes, when Drew is forced into the role of QB coach he is just amazing.

 

But he didn't really develop any great QBs when he was the on the field general QB. He'll make an outstanding QB coach someday, without a doubt in my mind. He literally seemed to inspire Brady when he got rattled. He held him composure through all of that and even when he could have let Brady fall apart and took back his job, he basically went with, "You know what, I want this team to win."

 

When he retires, a team would have to be insane not to offer him a QB coach job. He is handling this with amazing class and damn, I want him to lead Buffalo to the Super Bowl and win it before he goes out.

[nl5xsk1 0]

New England Patriots: Pete Carroll ... yes, I remember the Rod Rust era (error would be more accurate) but Rust had horrible, horrible players and thus couldn't be blamed for the team's failures. Carroll was coach after a Super Bowl loss, and before 2 Super Bowl wins, so obviously had more talent to work with. The only positive thing that came from the Carroll days (daze?) was the fact that his "we're pumped and jacked" has become a common cliche among me and my friends.

 

Boston Bruins: C'mon, Bruins fans, why the Keenen hate? He did exactly what he needed to, which is be a hard-ass that knocked the team in line. I never loved the man as a coach, but to say that he was the worst is a travesty. If MOC's one month at the end of last year ('02-'03) counts, I'd say him. But since he was just a GM keeping the coach's seat warm, I don't think that he counts, and will name Steve Kaspar instead. The team had reasonable talent then, and yet he got nothing out of them.

[alfdogg 0]

Pacers - Isiah Thomas. Probably an unpopular choice, but last year's team was the first that had a realistic chance to win it all, and we went 14-19 after the break and lost in the first round again. Good riddance, sez I.

 

Hoosiers - well, I've only been around for Knight and Davis, so obviously Davis. Most of the Davis hate comes from not being Knight, though.

 

EDIT: I personally like Davis, that was just a general statement.

 

Reds - I haven't watched much baseball for a while, so I guess whoever's been managing them the last few years, since I'm not old enough to remember the last time they sucked before that.

[Slayer 0]

KC Royals: Tony Muser. The guy who wanted players to stop drinking milk and start drinking tequila.

 

Orrrrrr...

 

Bob Boone.

Reds fans agree with you on this one

[Guest MikeSC]

I don't know about Coaches...but I can tell you I have a problem with our rookie QB:

 

Boy...I can't wait to see him play.

 

*cries*

"And that's about the time the drinking problem hit" --- Airplane

-=Mike

[Ripper 0]

Greg Williams with the bills, Scott Skiles with the Suns.

[Ripper 0]

Pacers - Isiah Thomas. Probably an unpopular choice, but last year's team was the first that had a realistic chance to win it all, and we went 14-19 after the break and lost in the first round again. Good riddance, sez I.

Team got better everyyear and he guarenteed finals in his third year.

 

 

This would be his third year.

 

 

You should be more pissed at Larry lets tradem ALL Brown. Antonio Davis for Johnathan Bender...YEAH!!. Mark Jackson for Jalen Rose...GO FOR IT.

 

Am I the only one that noticed that Mark Jackson + Pacers = Success. I know everyone else in the leauge, and the Pacers the following season, saw that.

[Spicy McHaggis 0]

Lakers- Magic

 

That's all I got.

[Red Baron 0]

Montreal Canadiens: Mario Trembly. So Much talent with that team, and he screws up, badly, chases Roy from the team...agh.

[alfdogg 0]

Pacers - Isiah Thomas.  Probably an unpopular choice, but last year's team was the first that had a realistic chance to win it all, and we went 14-19 after the break and lost in the first round again.  Good riddance, sez I.

Team got better everyyear and he guarenteed finals in his third year.

 

 

This would be his third year.

 

 

You should be more pissed at Larry lets tradem ALL Brown. Antonio Davis for Johnathan Bender...YEAH!!. Mark Jackson for Jalen Rose...GO FOR IT.

 

Am I the only one that noticed that Mark Jackson + Pacers = Success. I know everyone else in the leauge, and the Pacers the following season, saw that.

No...this would be his *fourth* year.

 

Which means he guaranteed finals last year, when said disastrous second half occured.

 

The Davis-for-Bender trade happened well after Brown left for Philly...besides, Brown wasn't an executive here anyway. And Davis will be done before Bender even hits his stride. He's 23 YEARS OLD.

 

I'll have to give you the Jackson-for-Rose point, though...that was completely Brown's fault, because he wouldn't play him, and he never got to play until Brown left. That is the only year that we've missed the playoffs since '89.

 

Rose, though, became our primary offensive force once Bird came, and was on his way to becoming a superstar before *gasp* Isiah Thomas came in and slowly phased him and Travis Best out until they were traded. I'm happier now with Artest and Tinsley, but those two really got the shaft from Isiah.

 

And yes, your equation is agreeable as well...I know I on MANY occasion during that season said "man, I wish we still had Mark Jackson right now."

[Guest Redhawk]

Georgetown b-ball -- Well, since there's only really been two (the Hoyas might as well have not existed before John Thompson), than Craig Esherick wins -- or loses, whatever -- by default.

 

Indiana Pacers -- As much as I loved him as a player, I'd have to pick Isiah Thomas. What I really couldn't stand was his schizo substitution patterns. Take someone like Jonathan Bender. He would start one night, play 5 minutes the next, not play at all the next game, play 35 minutes the next, start the next game, play 15 minutes the next game....

 

Browns -- In my lifetime? Chris Palmer. Although he was working with an expannsion team, he blew two No. 1 draft picks in a row with Tim Couch and Courtney Brown. Had he taken McNabb and LaVar, he'd probably still have a job.

[NoCalMike 0]

Oakland A's - well in my time, I'd say the manager we have now, Ken Macha

 

 

Sacramento Kings - Umm, since coming to Sac? Hmm.....in my lifetime I'd say Eddie Jordan

 

 

Washington Redskins: Wow, do I really even have to name him? Though it is very much Snyder's fault, since I think he was the ONLY persont thinking this would work: Steve Spurrier.

[The Czech Republic 0]

I don't know about Coaches...but I can tell you I have a problem with our rookie QB:

 

Boy...I can't wait to see him play.

 

*cries*

"And that's about the time the drinking problem hit" --- Airplane

-=Mike

I see great minds reference alike.