Will Someone Please Stop Arthur Blank From Hiring College Coaches?
There are some people who should not be allowed to pick the color to paint their own houses and there are other people who should not be allowed to name their own children, but then there are people who should not be allowed to hired their own football coaches. Arthur Blank is clearly one of those people.
According to published Internet reports — and if it’s published on the Internet it must be true, right? — the Atlanta Falcons owner is seriously pursuing Pete Carroll from USC to fill the team’s vacant head coaching position. That’s right, just months after Bobby Petrino blew up the franchise by jumping ship midstream, Blank is chasing another highly-touted college coach to take over his moribund pro team.
They say the surest symptom of addiction is that an addict continues to engage in their addictive activity despite the continued negative consequences. College coaches, unless their name is Jimmy Johnson or Barry Switzer, by and large are doomed to fail in the NFL. Can someone please organize an intervention here?
Oh, but it’ll be different this time because Carroll already has experience coach in the NFL. Yes, let’s take a look at that sterling track record: One underwhelming season with the NY Jets and three semi-successful years with the Patriots, a squad largely built by Bill Parcells that had just been to the Super Bowl.
Why would Carroll even want this job? Resurrecting the Falcons is going to be a long, hard process and not for the faint of heart. It won’t be much fun next year when Atlanta finishes with only three or four wins and everyone is on your case for not getting the job done. There’s only one college coach, in fact, that I can think of that might have the stomach for it and he’s already taken a job at SMU.
So I beg you, Arthur Blank, do not pull the trigger on this hire. Look instead for a deserving assisant coach out there, a dependable, stand-up guy who will stick around through thick and thin to rebuilt your franchise to respectability. Someone like, I dunno, MIKE SINGLETARY!
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