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It's amazing how many bad championship coaches Miami Dade County has. In fact, I have a list of the worst coaches to win a championship in any sport. 3 of the top 6 are all Dade County coaches. In order, the worst 6 championship coaches are

1.Gene Chizik, Auburn- How can anybody disagree with this? I'd have to look through all the SEC title coaches to say for sure, but he may be the worst coach to merely win an SEC championship.











2. Paul Westhead, Lakers- 20-62 coach without Laker talent

3. Bennie Oosterbaan, Michigan- He was Larry Coker winning with your predecessor's players on steroids. Under previous coach Fritz Crisler, the Wolverines won the 1947 national championship and went 10-0. Oosterbaan took over in 1948 and lead Michigan to a second straight national championship. The rest of his time at Michigan he was 54-33-4

4. Erik Speoelstra, Miami Heat- Explained below

5. Larry Coker, Miami Hurricanes football

6. Jim Morris, Miami Hurricanes baseball

I know I am going to get a whole lot of criticism for arguing that Spoelstra is a worse coach than Coker and Morris. But he's still had 2 of the Big 3 the last 2 years. And he's gone 85-79. How could you not agree with me that this guy is a terrible coach?

And I think it's awful enough that he averaged about 55 or 56 regular season wins every year when Lebron was still here. Now that Wade is gone it'll really be proven how awful Spoelstra is. Supposedly one of the main reasons Lebron left is because he wanted Spoelstra fired.
 
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i have jim leyland at 2 with the same exact list, the panther guy from 97 woulda been on if he woulda won
 
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caneaddict said:
i have jim leyland at 2 with the same exact list, the panther guy from 97 woulda been on if he woulda won
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Leyland's not a great manager but he usually didn't manage teams with that much talent. If he had been managing the Yankees or even Red Sox and gotten the same records he did with the Tigers, Pirates and Marlins then I'd agree with you. Jack Mckeon wasn't a great manager either but neither of them belong on the worst list.

Dennis Erickson is only spared inclusion on the list for the exact same reason Tom Coughlin is. Somehow they managed to get championships twice. The same is actually true of Spoelstra, but he's done such an awful job with the Heat that I don't care.
 
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caneaddict said:
i have jim leyland at 2 with the same exact list, the panther guy from 97 woulda been on if he woulda won
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Leyland's not a great manager but he usually didn't manage teams with that much talent. If he had been managing the Yankees or even Red Sox and gotten the same records he did with the Tigers, Pirates and Marlins then I'd agree with you. Jack Mckeon wasn't a great manager either but neither of them belong on the worst list.

Dennis Erickson is only spared inclusion on the list for the exact same reason Tom Coughlin is. Somehow they managed to get championships twice. The same is actually true of Spoelstra, but he's done such an awful job with the Heat that I don't care.
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I thought Erickson was a good game day coach while he was here. Recruiting not so much. As far as Tom Coughlin goes well I can't phucking stand the Giants, Coughlin and that mouth breather Eli Manning. You have to give Coughlin a little credit though. It must not be easy to Clouseau your way to not one but 2 Super Bowl rings. As a matter of fact I think it's a modern day sports miracle that Magoo Coughlin even got those two garbage teams to the big one let alone winning them.
 
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Footballhelmet said:
caneaddict said:
i have jim leyland at 2 with the same exact list, the panther guy from 97 woulda been on if he woulda won
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Leyland's not a great manager but he usually didn't manage teams with that much talent. If he had been managing the Yankees or even Red Sox and gotten the same records he did with the Tigers, Pirates and Marlins then I'd agree with you. Jack Mckeon wasn't a great manager either but neither of them belong on the worst list.

Dennis Erickson is only spared inclusion on the list for the exact same reason Tom Coughlin is. Somehow they managed to get championships twice. The same is actually true of Spoelstra, but he's done such an awful job with the Heat that I don't care.
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I thought Erickson was a good game day coach while he was here. Recruiting not so much. As far as Tom Coughlin goes well I can't phucking stand the Giants, Coughlin and that mouth breather Eli Manning. You have to give Coughlin a little credit though. It must not be easy to Clouseau your way to not one but 2 Super Bowl rings. As a matter of fact I think it's a modern day sports miracle that Magoo Coughlin even got those two garbage teams to the big one let alone winning them.
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Erickson won with Johnson's players for 3 years. He became a 2-3 loss coach at the end of his Cane career and then got Miami on probation. (Waiting for some poster to come and claim that Erickson had nothing to do with the scandal.) He did do well at Oregon State but he did bad at Arizona State and got fired.

Coughlin's regular season record is very mediocre. But he did coach a start up franchise in the Jaguars and had pretty mediocre talent in NY as well. Probably doesn't belong that far up there on further thought.
 
Footballhelmet said:
It's amazing how many bad championship coaches Miami Dade County has. In fact, I have a list of the worst coaches to win a championship in any sport. 3 of the top 6 are all Dade County coaches. In order, the worst 6 championship coaches are

1.Gene Chizik, Auburn- How can anybody disagree with this? I'd have to look through all the SEC title coaches to say for sure, but he may be the worst coach to merely win an SEC championship.











2. Paul Westhead, Lakers- 20-62 coach without Laker talent

3. Bennie Oosterbaan, Michigan- He was Larry Coker winning with your predecessor's players on steroids. Under previous coach Fritz Crisler, the Wolverines won the 1947 national championship and went 10-0. Oosterbaan took over in 1948 and lead Michigan to a second straight national championship. The rest of his time at Michigan he was 54-33-4

4. Erik Speoelstra, Miami Heat- Explained below

5. Larry Coker, Miami Hurricanes football

6. Jim Morris, Miami Hurricanes baseball

I know I am going to get a whole lot of criticism for arguing that Spoelstra is a worse coach than Coker and Morris. But he's still had 2 of the Big 3 the last 2 years. And he's gone 85-79. How could you not agree with me that this guy is a terrible coach?

And I think it's awful enough that he averaged about 55 or 56 regular season wins every year when Lebron was still here. Now that Wade is gone it'll really be proven how awful Spoelstra is. Supposedly one of the main reasons Lebron left is because he wanted Spoelstra fired.
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Spoelstra is widely regarded as one of the most respected and best coaches in the league.....and You do realize Bosh has missed a full season worth of time over the past 2 years, and Wade played the most games last yr that he's played in the past 6. So no, he hasn't had 2 of the big 3. Your hot take is pretty off
 
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dstuart4 said:
Marv Levy and Marty Schottenheimer. Absolutely the WOAT.
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Best to have not won a title actually. (I know you're being sarcastic.) I still am shocked 10 years later that Schottenheimer got fired after a 14-2 regular season. The Dolphins should have hired him instead of Cam Cameron.
 
When I read threads like these and those of Jaromir I wonder what they get from it. It's obvious they aren't fans, but what exactly are they? Does constant negativity affect their lives?

Maybe get out a little more. Smell some flowers. You may discover that there's something about the U you actually like.
 
How the **** you put Spo on here but leave off the luckiest old ******* to win anything in a long time in Trader Jack McKeon? I like the guy's personality but the year he won with the Marlins was full of unbelievable fortune.
 
Tad Footeball said:
How the **** you put Spo on here but leave off the luckiest old ******* to win anything in a long time in Trader Jack McKeon? I like the guy's personality but the year he won with the Marlins was full of unbelievable fortune.
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He and Leyland belong on the list of the most mediocre coaches/managers to win a title. But not the most godawful.

I always have a lot of trouble convincing other Heat fans that Spoelstra is a terrible coach. Well non-Heat fans mostly realize he's a bad coach but Heat fans don't.
 
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