{"id":2574,"date":"2011-01-05T10:37:47","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T16:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2011-01-05T10:37:47","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T16:37:47","slug":"twis-coaches-are-fired-for-winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/twis-coaches-are-fired-for-winning\/","title":{"rendered":"T*W*I*S: Coaches are Fired for Winning?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Maryland coach Ralph Friedgen couldn't save his job with a 9-4 record and being named ACC Coach of the Year.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s time for that time-honored \u00a0ritual.\u00a0 You know which one I’m talking about, right?\u00a0\u00a0It’s the one which \u00a0immediately follows a sport’s season when coaches get canned for not producing enough W’s.\u00a0 Happens all the time.\u00a0 We’re used to it.\u00a0 We’re even numb to it.\u00a0 The coaching carousel turns round and round and we’re just along for the ride.\u00a0 But wait, we have a new twist to the trend.\u00a0\u00a0Now athletic directors and professional team owners are firing coaches who\u00a0do<\/em> produce W’s.\u00a0 Hmmm.\u00a0 That’s a new one.\u00a0 In December,\u00a0the University of\u00a0Maryland unceremoniously discarded\u00a0Ralph\u00a0Fridgen, their 10-year coach and UM alum.\u00a0\u00a0You might remember\u00a0Ralph.\u00a0\u00a0A week prior to being\u00a0handed\u00a0the funky-flag pink slip, he was named ACC Football Coach of the\u00a0Year.\u00a0 His 2010 Terp team went 9-4, finished second in the Atlantic Division,\u00a0and\u00a0won the Military Bowl against East Carolina.\u00a0\u00a0Up the turnpike a piece, although he\u00a0produced a 7-6 team\u00a0in 2010 and\u00a0the team was invited to a bowl, Dave Wannstedt is out at Pitt.\u00a0 His teams went 42-31 in six seasons.\u00a0 Oh, and he’s a Pitt alum, too.\u00a0 At his going-out speech, Coach Dave said this:\u00a0 “I am a Pitt guy. I’m a Pittsburgh guy. I always have been and always will be.\u00a0 There have been a lot of coaches before me and there will be a lot after me, but I can assure you of one thing — none of them has loved or will love this university more than Dave Wannstedt.”\u00a0 On the professional side,\u00a0Oakland Raider head coach Tom Cable will not be returning even though he led the\u00a0Black and Silver to an 8-8 resurgent record after nearly a decade of futility for the Raiders in the Bay Area.\u00a0 In fact, Cable led the team to its\u00a0first non-losing record since 2002.\u00a0\u00a0There will be more head-scratching moves to\u00a0come, I suspect, but one has to wonder why loyalty and winning aren’t enough?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s time for that time-honored \u00a0ritual.\u00a0 You know which one I’m talking about, right?\u00a0\u00a0It’s the one which \u00a0immediately follows a sport’s season when coaches get canned for not producing enough W’s.\u00a0 Happens all the time.\u00a0 We’re used to it.\u00a0 We’re even numb to it.\u00a0 The coaching carousel turns round and round and we’re just along … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}