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It tells me that ultimately he and fox were the same lame coach.

He benched cam for not wearing a tie. He had it his way.

Good point. It's kind of like discussing which turd smells worse.

Fox like his "cagey old vets". He had no desire to groom a young QB....ever. any young QB he was put with was against his wishes. As bad as Rivera was, Fox was worse...but not much worse.

Oh yeah...I keep forgetting about him and I should probably be thinking about dump offs to tremble as well

I don't hate him. I just think his best days are far behind them and we wasted them.

Rivera is a chump coach. I feel safe saying that.

Not from me. Chube makes him expendable.

I don't know. They can probably get away with the FB. Clarke may be hard, to keep. I don't know that they should use more than 3 or 4 spots on RB/FB.

Probably correct here with Clarke (RB) and Stokke (FB) heading to the PS (both of which have a ton of potential).

Best coach in our history. But the bar is pretty low. Again, 3 winning seasons out of 9. That's not something to be proud of. It's something to get better than.

No matter what he does or where he goes, he's always got one foot pushing on the brake.

Cannot frikkin wait. Sammy to Robby Sammy to CMC Sammy to DJ Sammy to the other Moore Sammy to Terrace Sammy to Chube Sammy to Shi Sammy Sam Sam.

Hoping for more makes me a fan

The fact that he only had 3 winning seasons out of 9 says a lot about him.

Should be a fun 6 games for the two of them and I'm sure Jones will love those ducks getting lobbed to him

Addition by subtraction. It's a real thing.

But so did 6 losing seasons out of 9.

Yeah...he said he learned from his mistakes heading into his last year as coach here and fell right back into the same bad tendencies. It's one thing to recognize deficiencies, it's another thing to work against your nature to overcome them. Ron just doesn't have what it takes.

One thing that I realize is that few people love coming to work, but my hope is that their time there can at least be tolerable and that at some point in the start of the shift and by the end of the shift they have smiled and maybe laughed at least once. if they can start their early day not being completely grumpy and leave not being pissed... i consider that a success and a reason to not dread coming to work when they might not feel like it. That is my starting point and the goal is to make them feel like they are accomplishing something real and tangible and are of value to me and the organization. You make them feel good about what they do, even if it's just loading trucks or taping up boxes (I work in a distribution center) and they will feel a bit of pride in what they do and as a result they will make sure it's done right and can meet all the deadlines and production goals.

I wish they could do it without earning that "honor" because i think it definitely helped.

Thanks for putting your work out there. I'll definitely be reading those, especially that newest one and I'll likely be passing that recommendation on to people i know in education. i applaud your efforts to help transform education administration. I've often considered myself a victim of public education because I grew up with ADD in a time that nothing was known about it and too many of the teachers I had chose to embarrass me publicly for "daydreaming" rather than help me work through and around my challenges. I think education has come a long way since then, but there are still many ways in which progress can and needs to be made. The world is rapidly changing and kids today have so much more to deal with than we ever did growing up thanks to social media and then of course the last year has brought about many new challenges that have a massive impact on the emotional well-being of our kids. Teachers have to adapt and administrators have to be able to help guide and equip their teachers to be more helpful in the classrooms. From the looks of it, your book will go a long way in helping accomplish that.

i love the dog analogies and think they are dead on (sheep dog is a great example of a great leader). also dead on was your comments about how to hold people accountable also, can you end me a link to your book. i've got another 20 something books left on my reading list for this year, but i definitely would work that puppy in.