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On the TUNNEYSIDE of
SPORTS December 17, 2012 # 415 Coming up
next..."Fire-in-the-belly"!
After further
review...This is the time of year when T*E*A*M owners and/or management
think it is time to make a "change-in-direction" by firing the
head coach. I recall what my late friend and world-renown columnist Jim
Murray once wrote, "Nothing is ever so bad it can't be made worse by
firing the coach". Fans, however, don't necessarily want change;
they want improvement--meaning more wins.
The issue becomes who
is available for a T*E*A*M to hire as their head coach. Let's look at the
NFL. There may be a number of former coaches available who have had great
success in their NFL careers. Jon Gruden, Bill Cowher, Tony Dungy and
Herm Edwards, immediately come to mind. Those four all now work with
major television networks as analysts. The question remains why a former
coach, now enjoying a secure job with great visibility and attendant
respect at a television network, would want to leave that to go back to
coaching. Stay tuned.
Gruden, on ESPN's
Monday Night Football, is currently a point of interest. While Chris
Berman, who is not a coaching consideration, has been ESPN's standard
bearer for three decades, Gruden, absolutely loves the game from the
booth, and has put his gregarious oral skills to good use there. Cowher
sits in the middle seat on CBS's NFL Today show between host James Brown,
Hall-of-Famers Dan Marino and Shannon Sharpe, and former Bengals
quarterback Boomer Esiason. Cowher is not just a pretty face for CBS, but
is in fact the only coach on that show. Dungy, like Cowher a
Super-Bowl-winning coach, is the coach on NBC's Football Night in America
each Sunday. Edwards, an NFL analyst for ESPN, stays busy year-round when
called upon for college games and talk shows.
The best and only
reason for any of the above to return to coaching is what many call
"fire-in-the-belly". They love coaching! But coaching is
exhausting--every day--and it doesn't end in February. There's the
"combine" to attend, when upcoming college players must be
evaluated. Then come interviews, and the draft, an NFL event that draws
major TV ratings, always with the challenge of getting the right player
for the right money. When the season begins, many coaches sleep at their
teams' headquarters, heightening their availability for television
interviews and community
appearances.
The workload is monstrous.
Will you work at your
job with a fire-in-the-belly attitude?
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