[Vision2020] Anyone want a basketball coaching job?

[Paul Rumelhart]

I really hate this tradition of firing a coach when the team loses more 
than it wins.  Half the coaches are out of a job every year.  I know 
it's not that bad, but I think it's ridiculous.  Let's bring somebody 
in, let them take a few years to be forged in the fire, and then keep 
them despite their win/loss record providing they are not completely 
incompetent.

It's the fact that a winning sports team means more money from wealthy 
and not-so-wealthy alumni that causes this kind of problem.  Let's try 
to get some perspective here.  It's a bunch of people bouncing a ball, 
passing it around, and tossing it in the air in the hopes of getting it 
to fall through a metal hoop screwed into a support.  No matter how good 
they are at it, it's still a silly activity in the grand scheme of things.

I have nothing against sports, I really enjoyed the little I played them 
in high school.  It's blowing it out of proportion that gets to me.  
There are about a thousand programs that are more important to society 
and the world around us that that kind of money should be going to.

Paul

Anybody want a hamburger?  I seem to have a large, dead, sacred cow on 
my hands...


Steven Basoa wrote:
> Maybe Kelvin Sampson wants the job...
>
> I don't know anything about George Pfeifer but it takes more than two 
> years to turn a program around, probably more if it's Idaho.  I wonder 
> about the woman's coach though.  Something seems wrong when the best 
> players keep jumping ship.  In any event, if the Vandals don't hire 
> Tom Hanson, then I'll take the job.  I could use  the extra $170,000...
>
> SB
>
>
> On Mar 18, 2008, at 11:21 AM, Carl Westberg wrote:
>
> MOSCOW, Idaho -- Idaho fired men's basketball coach George Pfeifer 
> after two seasons and a 12-48 record.
> While Pfeifer improved the competitiveness of the program, it was time 
> for a change, athletic director Rob Spear said Tuesday.
> The Vandals were 8-21 this season and lost in the quarterfinals of the 
> Western Athletic Conference tournament. Pfeifer will be paid $170,000 
> for the final year of his contract.
>
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