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Popovic is the least likable NBA coach currently??? We're pretty much on opposite sides of the spectrum on that.
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Who is/was the most likable successful coach? Any sport. (1 Viewer)
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NutterButter
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avoiding injuries
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Another vote for Joe Gibbs
Rodrigo Duterte
Footballguy
Tommy Lasorda?
Mrs. Rannous
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Guy Lewis
BobbyLayne
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illiterate
Footballguy
Is it their success that makes them unlikable, or other reasons? Or a combination of both? Nick Saban and Urban Meyer might be disliked for completely different reasons.
Terminalxylem
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**** Vermeil
TripItUp
Footballguy
that was a hard one...I actually like Pop but couldn't think of any NBA coaches that I really disliked.
Ghost Rider
Footballguy
Damn it.
That makes Pop even more likeable. Anyone who trolls the media is aces in my book.
Man of Constant Sorrow
Footballguy
Anyone nominate Yogi Berra yet...
. ..you've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.
. ..you've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.
badmojo1006
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Bruce Bochy
General Malaise
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General Malaise
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The General
Footballguy
That is a weird story. Have heard multiple versions of that meeting where Carroll was asking the military guy about the Pentagon.
It hasn’t come up in his weekly podcast.
gianmarco
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illiterate
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Ted Lange as your Bartender
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Doug Pedersen is on his way if he beefs up the resume a little more, but he’s already accomplished more than most coaches. Just a straight up good dude.
The General
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Interviews with this guy are great. Very funny, self effacing (that seems to be more common trait in baseball), down to earth.
Galileo
Footballguy
He took a few moments to skydive during spring training... https://twitter.com/Indians/status/1107424078749724672?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1107424078749724672&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlb.com%2Fnews%2Fterry-francona-goes-skydiving
sports_fan
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Mickey Goldmill
Don't Noonan
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The General
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grateful zed
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ditka
Ray Barboni
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Chuck Daly
... not sure how he was viewed nation wide, but as a kid growing up, Pistons fan?
He was the coolest. Always had to compete for “cool” with Pat Riley and Phil ... but man, he held his own.
Those Piston teams were so much fun to be a fan of.
... not sure how he was viewed nation wide, but as a kid growing up, Pistons fan?
He was the coolest. Always had to compete for “cool” with Pat Riley and Phil ... but man, he held his own.
Those Piston teams were so much fun to be a fan of.
Apple Jack
Footballguy
Gibbs, Kerr and Pop were the first that sprang to mind.
Drunken knight
Footballguy
**** vermiel
tony dungy
bill walsh
marv levy
tony dungy
bill walsh
marv levy
Judge Smails
Footballguy
I’m a huge Wooden fan.
What about Jimmy V?
What about Jimmy V?
Man of Constant Sorrow
Footballguy
Love both.
Jimmy's brother Bob, coached here in Louisville, at a catholic university. Besides his ESPN work, he is also the color commentator for UofL games.
He has done a lot of work since Jimmy's death with the V Foundation - fightin' cancer.
He does a lot of speaking and fund raising as well - which - often involves stories about Jimmy.
O course, as a bro - he tells em good-like, but...everything I gather - even given proper considerations to the source, Jimmy was a hella man.
I vote yea.
5-ish Finkle
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"Badger" Bob Johnson
Ben & Jerry's
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Bruce Arians
TwinTurbo
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Dr. Octopus
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Bob N. Weaver
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Jay Wright. And best dressed.
Brunell4MVP
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I always liked Frank Layden, Utah Jazz.
Pulled these from the web...
Once in a road game against the Denver Nuggets, there was a halftime contest where a young fan won a halftime shooting contest. Layden pulled the kid aside and jokingly asked him if he was interested in helping out the Jazz, who were down by 25 points at the time. Layden then tried sneaking him onto the court with four other Jazz players and got the fan on the court before the referees realized what was going on and stopped play.
In a 1985 game against the Los Angeles Lakers, with the Jazz down by a sizable deficit, Layden left the game while it was still ongoing and returned to the team's hotel across from The Forum, visiting the sandwich shop to order a sandwich and chili.
During the 1987 playoff series against the Golden State Warriors, Layden arrived to the arena in full Groucho Marx nose, glasses, and mustache getup and did a comedy bit with Warriors coach George Karl to try and make things more lighthearted after the previous game featured tension-filled moments and fighting amongst players.
“The team was enormous back then,” Donovan recalled. “You had Mark Eaton, Thurl Bailey, Karl Malone, Marc Iavaroni, Mel Turpin. They were in this square locker room and they were all sitting on one side of the room.” Layden, then the head coach of the Jazz, noticed the bulk in the room sitting closely together and cracked a joke that Donovan remembers 28 years later. “He says to them, ‘You three guys get up and sit over there. I don’t want the room to tip over,’” Donovan said, smiling. "They actually started to get up and move because he told them to and then I think they realized he was joking."
When asked how long it would take him to have a good team when he first came to Salt Lake City: "I said 7 years, but I only had a 5-year contract. Why rush things? The world was made in only 6 days, and I don't feel like I would like to have a team in the shape the world is in now."
On remembering what it felt like when he was named coach of the Jazz. "That's like saying, 'And now, our next speaker was the lookout at Pearl Harbor.' "
Pulled these from the web...
Once in a road game against the Denver Nuggets, there was a halftime contest where a young fan won a halftime shooting contest. Layden pulled the kid aside and jokingly asked him if he was interested in helping out the Jazz, who were down by 25 points at the time. Layden then tried sneaking him onto the court with four other Jazz players and got the fan on the court before the referees realized what was going on and stopped play.
In a 1985 game against the Los Angeles Lakers, with the Jazz down by a sizable deficit, Layden left the game while it was still ongoing and returned to the team's hotel across from The Forum, visiting the sandwich shop to order a sandwich and chili.
During the 1987 playoff series against the Golden State Warriors, Layden arrived to the arena in full Groucho Marx nose, glasses, and mustache getup and did a comedy bit with Warriors coach George Karl to try and make things more lighthearted after the previous game featured tension-filled moments and fighting amongst players.
“The team was enormous back then,” Donovan recalled. “You had Mark Eaton, Thurl Bailey, Karl Malone, Marc Iavaroni, Mel Turpin. They were in this square locker room and they were all sitting on one side of the room.” Layden, then the head coach of the Jazz, noticed the bulk in the room sitting closely together and cracked a joke that Donovan remembers 28 years later. “He says to them, ‘You three guys get up and sit over there. I don’t want the room to tip over,’” Donovan said, smiling. "They actually started to get up and move because he told them to and then I think they realized he was joking."
When asked how long it would take him to have a good team when he first came to Salt Lake City: "I said 7 years, but I only had a 5-year contract. Why rush things? The world was made in only 6 days, and I don't feel like I would like to have a team in the shape the world is in now."
On remembering what it felt like when he was named coach of the Jazz. "That's like saying, 'And now, our next speaker was the lookout at Pearl Harbor.' "
Phil Elliott
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Not necessarily "most likeable" (in fact maybe "least likeable") but Bill Mussleman had an amazing run as BB coach at Ashland College (now Ashland University) in the late 60's and Univ Minnesota in early '70's:
108-20 between 1966 and 1970 at Ashland
.845 winning percentage
NCAA College National Tournament (think Div II/III) 4 times
13 All America players
68'-69' team allowed record low average of 33.9 pts/games (and you thought Texas Tech and Virginia were defensive teams).
Mussleman had a circus like pre-game program to the music of Sweet Georgia Brown with the team doing various ball control drills. And the bench players stood at half court watching the opposing team warm up.
The first year of coaching (prior to Ashland) was at Kent University High School and he was 14-5 and won share of conference title.
Intensely defensive teams.
"Defeat is worse than death because you have to live with it".
After Ashland, at Univ Minnesota, his teams were 61-32 (.656) over 4 years, first year one the Big 10 Championship which was the first in over 53 years for MN, and average attendance went from 4,000 to 18,000.
Coached several players who went into pros, probalby most notable, Mychal Thompsom.
Low points were the Univ Minnesota-Ohio State brawl in 1972, when Minnesota player Corky Taylor "kneed" OSU player Luke Witte in the groin; and, after leaving MN to go coach in the pros, Minnesota was placed on probation for 4 years due to over 100 violations.
Mediocre results after leaving college coaching to coach in pros and semi-pro leagues but late 60's/early 70's were quite a run.
108-20 between 1966 and 1970 at Ashland
.845 winning percentage
NCAA College National Tournament (think Div II/III) 4 times
13 All America players
68'-69' team allowed record low average of 33.9 pts/games (and you thought Texas Tech and Virginia were defensive teams).
Mussleman had a circus like pre-game program to the music of Sweet Georgia Brown with the team doing various ball control drills. And the bench players stood at half court watching the opposing team warm up.
The first year of coaching (prior to Ashland) was at Kent University High School and he was 14-5 and won share of conference title.
Intensely defensive teams.
"Defeat is worse than death because you have to live with it".
After Ashland, at Univ Minnesota, his teams were 61-32 (.656) over 4 years, first year one the Big 10 Championship which was the first in over 53 years for MN, and average attendance went from 4,000 to 18,000.
Coached several players who went into pros, probalby most notable, Mychal Thompsom.
Low points were the Univ Minnesota-Ohio State brawl in 1972, when Minnesota player Corky Taylor "kneed" OSU player Luke Witte in the groin; and, after leaving MN to go coach in the pros, Minnesota was placed on probation for 4 years due to over 100 violations.
Mediocre results after leaving college coaching to coach in pros and semi-pro leagues but late 60's/early 70's were quite a run.
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Phil Elliott
Footballguy
I had a friend, Keith Nord (recently passed away) who played for Pete with the Vikings. Keith couldn't say enough good things about Pete as a coach and as a human.
randall146
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TheIronSheik
SUPER ELITE UPPER TIER
Lou Holtz. How can you not like that guy?
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