Rankings: Top 5 Awesome Coaching Meltdowns
September 26th, 2007 by NextRound
With all the publicity Mike Gundy is garnishing this week for laying the verbal smackdown on a chubby female reporter during a press conference, we decided to rank our Top 5 All-Time Coaching Meltdowns.
You won’t find any Bobby Knight or Lou Pinella here. We’re ranking single occurrences. And comedy is a must. Those guys are known more for their body of work as assholes.
5. John L. Smith Slaps Himself. A bizarre move by a bizarre guy who couldn’t coach for shit.
4. Jim Boeheim Defends Jerry Macnamara. We wouldn’t have won ten fucking games! (NSFW)
Bowl Picks:
Overall Record: 9-11 (3 Unit), 8-6 (2 Unit), 7-1 (1 Unit), -2.7 Units
September 26th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
Playoff’s? God I miss Jim Mora Sr.
September 26th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
I think an honorable mention should’ve gone to Allen Iverson. “We talkin’ bout practice. Practice. Not a game,but Practice.”
Jim Mora and A.I. are two peas in a pod.
Give Philly some love.
September 26th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
Truth, you’re right.
We’re kicking ourselves for blanking on that one.
If you want to check it out, here it is, awesome as ever:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=eGDBR2L5kzI
September 26th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
I’d never seen the one where John L. Smith slapped himself. how weird.
I sort of hate Jim Boeheim, but i respect the sh!t out of him. The guy is a grade A asshole, could piss on the president and not get fired, and his wife is fuel. I can respect that.
September 26th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
The Dan Hawkins interview sounds like something straight out of the WWF… or WWE, or whatever they call it now…
And that AA coach is a dipshit, but I love the whole using the rosin bag as a hand grenade move. Thats good work, I respect that.
September 27th, 2007 at 12:11 am
Slapping yourself in a presser? Pretty much ensured a pink slip on that one.
September 27th, 2007 at 7:48 am
I also want to take exception with leaving Bob knight off the list… I am closet B. Knight fan and his “Game Face” Press Conference at least deserves honarable mention.
I’d also like to throw Herm Edwards in there for the infamous line “WE…PLAY…TO…WIN…THE…GAME!”
I am not sure if they are “Top 5″ worthy, but both deserve honarable mention as they are jacked up.
The Truth
September 27th, 2007 at 9:30 am
At what point during a AA baseball game does a manager decide that it is time to break out the low crawl and hurl a rosin bag at the ump? I want to have a beer or 10 with that guy.
September 27th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
Don’t kick yourself too long, it wouldn’t have made much sense to include AI in a top 5 coaching meltdown list.
Mora probably deserved another spot in the top 5 with his Saints tirade “our offense sucks…our defense sucks…”