jtex316
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« Reply #15 on: August 05, 2009, 04:37:24 pm » |
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This is why I hate these lists because they do nothing but piss me off.
First of all - this makes no sense to combine the sports like this.
Bill Walsh was the F'ing MAN. #26 - are you smoking crack? He's an absolute genius football coach - a man that in my opinion is STILL ahead of his time, even today. Hopefully in some years people will start to give him the proper credit he deserves. This is a complete, total, utter outrage to me that the Sporting News should publicly apologize for. #26. He made Joe Montana, who was a back-up at Notre Dame. The fact that he took a QB from Notre Dame and that QB won a meaningful game of any kind should be enough to vault you into the top 10 alone...let alone RE-INVENTING THE ENTIRE GAME OF FOOTBALL...Bill Walsh's team was STILL good with assistant running the team several years after he left...
This list has no consistency to it. They clearly put Don Shula up there because of his total # of wins, but then Bobby Knight with his 800+ college NBA wins is #16, George halas at #14, and Pat Summit - 1,000+ freaking wins - #11.
Joe Paterno at #13 is way too high. Joe Paterno is quite possibly the most over-rated coach in the history of sports. All of his players suck in the NFL, his team sucks year in and year out (I even forgot about Penn State - what have they ever done - ever??), and he's one thousand years old and no-one has the guts to fire him after mediocre performances year in and year out. Joe Paterno is that much better than Bill Walsh? F*ck off.
Red Auerbach - People bitch about Phil Jackson having Michael Jordan and Shaq, but how soon they forget that Auerbach had...well...EVERYONE who is an icon in basketball. Bill Russell and John Havlicheck (Havlicheck STOLE THE BALL!!!!!)..enough said. So it's appropriate that Phil Jackson is ahead of Red Auerbach because Phil has now done it with three different "teams" (MJ's team, Shaq's team, Kobe's team) if you follow that.
Bobby Bowden - i don't even understand how he's a college football coach to begin with. You know the movie "The Waterboy"? Bowden reminds me of the "bad" coach in that movie that stole his assistant's green playbook to be good...a total hillbilly with a pea-sized brain.
I can handle Paul Brown, Don Shula, George Halas, Chuck Knoll, and .... MAYBE ... Joe Gibbs ahead of Bill Belichick....but Tom Landry is not even in the same league as Belichick...those Cowboy teams were not all that great and continued to get whooped by the Steelers every time...they only won super bowls when they played shitty ass Denver or Don Shula's Dolphins.
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