Saturday, April 2, 2016

Coach Bob Walsh's latest

Link  "Gary Parrish has a really interesting take on college coaching and never staying too long in the same place.

Because, basically, here’s how college coaching works: when you’re hired you are asked to be better than the guy before you if the guy before you was fired, and at least as good as the guy before you if the guy before you left on his own terms and for a better opportunity. That’s Step 1. If you don’t meet that criteria, you’re fired in three or four or five years. But if you do meet that criteria, then you start to coach against your own record, and if your second five years aren’t better than your first five years, for the most part, fans start to think you’re taking them nowhere, and they begin to envision and want something new..."

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