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Home / Articles / Columnists / Sports Feature /  Fans Don’t Get Coaches Fired – Losses Do
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Monday, April 11,2022

Fans Don’t Get Coaches Fired – Losses Do

By Mark Tudino  
(Editor’s note: Usually the baseball preview would occupy this space, but because of the lockout and subsequent delay to the start of the season, you’ll have to wait until next month’s publication for that bit of wisdom.)

I’m always amused when I hear the oracles of the air and print pontificate about how spoiled fan bases “force” a coach to leave town – or get him fired. The latest iteration of this narrative is on display at the University of Florida where head basketball coach Mike White left to take the same job at archrival Georgia. Ostensibly Coach White – by all accounts a decent man who tried to play by the rules – left because he felt his time at UF had run its course – that after seven years he wasn’t getting the institutional support he felt he needed to be successful. The unofficial story is he felt the fan base, specifically some idiot fans is particular, had made his stay untenable for both him and his family. There were allegations of his family being harassed, which is unacceptable no matter what the on-court product is like, but those stories are unconfirmed. Yet the essential point is Coach White was driven out by a fan base which is either a) unrealistic, or b) unappreciative of the job done by the coach, and has forced him to leave for greener pastures.

Poppycock. To date, I know of no successful coaches (and that is a term up for dispute) who have left their jobs because the fan base was unhappy with their performance, and forced him or her out of their job. Coaches get fired or leave for a variety of reasons, and most ALL of them inevitably relate to success – or lack thereof. Look no further than the state of Florida, and two individuals who recently departed under controversial circumstances.

In Miami, the Dolphins fired Coach Brian Flores ostensibly because he wasn’t seen as a team guy, as someone who couldn’t get along with his staff. It wasn’t because the fans were unhappy with not making the playoffs – again – or because he was inconsistent with his development of QB Tua Tagovailoa.

No, it had to do with his inability to work and play with others (now the subject of a blockbuster lawsuit). Down the road, Derek Jeter left the Marlins after nearly five years as its president. Was it because of low attendance? A failure to make the playoffs for the ninth time in the last 10 years? Nope. He left because he was tired of working for a franchise more interested in saving nickels and dimes than in accumulating good players and championships.

You see, the dirty little secret is owners or universities will employ Attila the Hun if that person wins – and avoids federal investigations. Fans may scream all they want, fill every website and call every talk show from here to Pluto, but in the end it’s all about success – or lack thereof. Don’t have enough of them, begin to ruffle the feathers of those you work with, and you’re quickly out the door.

So the next time someone complains about how a certain fan base “drove a coach out of town because he/ she wasn’t appreciated,” just smile because you know the truth:

It’s all about the W’s.

 

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