Sunday, March 30, 2008

Quick thoughts on Bobby Knight and Bill Parcells

So I am watching SportsCenter this morning when they roll out an interview with Bobby Knight and Bill Parcells. Please know that I have grown to greatly dislike both of these men and you read the biased in this post.

Anyway, Parcells says...when asked if players today are different, he responds "It's not the player so much that is different, but the peripheral people around him that are." Of course, Bobby agreed.

That's interesting, but not surprising. Since the players haven't changed, I guess that is why Billy and Bobby have managed to win many more championships over the years. Oh wait..they haven't. Bobby hasn't won a national championship since 1987. He also hasn't been able to reach the elite eight or win a conference championship since 1993. Billy hasn't managed to win the Super Bowl since 1990 and is an overall 95-81 in the regular season and 3-5 in the playoffs.

Will someone please tell me what is so special about records that would get just about anyone else fired over the same periods of time? We can only hope they both become insignificant as soon as possible because I don't know if there can be two more sorry people in the business today.