CFN rates Coaches
Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 10:01 am
http://cfn.scout.com/2/557921.html
Here is where our beloved coach gets mentioned:
"All these lists might give the impression that no coaches did a poor job in 2006. Relax--that's hardly the case. Several coaches simply stunk it up this season. It doesn't mean they're bad coaches in general, but it does mean that they couldn't find the right formula in this particular pigskin parade through Autumn. Kirk Ferentz, Gregg Brandon, Tommy Bowden, Dirk Koetter, John L. Smith, Larry Coker, Bobby Bowden, John Bunting, Chuck Amato, Walt Harris, George O'Leary, Mike Price and Dan McCarney simply didn't get the job done this season. Of these coaches, however, only Koetter, Smith, Bunting and Amato deserve to be fired. The dismissal of Coker was wrong because of what the Miami coach accomplished in his first five seasons, and because a lot of off-field traumas affected the Hurricanes this past year. The termination of McCarney was wrong because Iowa State is not a football power, and should not think it is supposed to be one. (I see comparisons to Ole Miss' woefully wrongheaded firing of David Cutcliffe a few years ago, a decision that has proved to be quite dumb.)"
So they don't think Brandon should be fired, but look at the group of coaches he is included with. Six of the 13 have been fired. Ferentz and Bobby Bowden are well respected coaches. Terry Bowden, O'Leary (liar), Price (liar and lover of strip joints), Harris (killed Stanford football), as a group, none too impressive.
Here is where our beloved coach gets mentioned:
"All these lists might give the impression that no coaches did a poor job in 2006. Relax--that's hardly the case. Several coaches simply stunk it up this season. It doesn't mean they're bad coaches in general, but it does mean that they couldn't find the right formula in this particular pigskin parade through Autumn. Kirk Ferentz, Gregg Brandon, Tommy Bowden, Dirk Koetter, John L. Smith, Larry Coker, Bobby Bowden, John Bunting, Chuck Amato, Walt Harris, George O'Leary, Mike Price and Dan McCarney simply didn't get the job done this season. Of these coaches, however, only Koetter, Smith, Bunting and Amato deserve to be fired. The dismissal of Coker was wrong because of what the Miami coach accomplished in his first five seasons, and because a lot of off-field traumas affected the Hurricanes this past year. The termination of McCarney was wrong because Iowa State is not a football power, and should not think it is supposed to be one. (I see comparisons to Ole Miss' woefully wrongheaded firing of David Cutcliffe a few years ago, a decision that has proved to be quite dumb.)"
So they don't think Brandon should be fired, but look at the group of coaches he is included with. Six of the 13 have been fired. Ferentz and Bobby Bowden are well respected coaches. Terry Bowden, O'Leary (liar), Price (liar and lover of strip joints), Harris (killed Stanford football), as a group, none too impressive.