I want to get paid not to coach
Marty Schottenheimer was fired yesterday as coach of the San Diego Chargers. John Clayton, of ESPN.com, writes, "[Chargers owner Dean] Spanos will pay Schottenheimer $4 million not to coach this year." I want to not coach the Chargers next year, and I'll do it for only $1 million! Where do I sign up?
This episode continues to point out some of the things that are wrong in sports today. They pay a guy for doing nothing other than to just go away. Coaches are constantly being "bought out" by teams to not coach. Coaches, and Schottenheimer certainly is not the only one, are paid obscene amounts of money to sit on their back-sides and do nothing. No wonder the average person has to mortgage the house to afford a ticket for a football game. The cheapest ticket to a San Diego Chargers game is $54 all the way up to $92 per seat, and that is for one game.
Again, where can I sign up to not coach?
3 comments:
Steve Mariucci, the inventor of the Wet Toast Offense, was paid $5million per season for 2 years not to coach the Detroit Lions. They went 2-14, not 14-2 like the Chargers.
That's an even sweeter deal.
Bill Walsh was the creator of the West Coast offense. A lot of people don't like it but it seems to work for my Eagles. It's a good system for a RB like Brian Westbrook.
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