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Message: [QUOTE="businesslawyer, post: 5152782, member: 55"] I understand your point, and others say it, but I don’t agree. A college football coach is paid to win games. It’s great if he’s also a good person and role model, but that‘s not what he’s paid for. Look, as ridiculous as it sounds 45 years later I have a varsity letter from an NCAA institution. I wanted my coach to make me better in my sport. Was he a good man? Sure, but so what? I didn’t need a mentor. I had a father. I had older relatives. I had teachers and professors. It’s always great if you can learn life lessons from an older person put in a role where mentorship can evolve, but it’s not necessary that person be a football coach. A coach needs to teach his players their sport and make them better at it. Did P have a good career with some huge highlights at Syracuse? Yes. Is he a good teacher of footbal? He must be. Is he a good human being? I’m sure he is. But he took a program that had won something like 8, 7, 7 and 9 wins the four years before he got here and went 5-7, 5-7 and 0-4 when here. No matter how many players look up to him as a mentor, he didn’t get it done. [/QUOTE]