I don’t follow pro football much anymore but this really irks me on behalf of the people who do. I guess I just don’t like people with enormous egos and inflated opinions of themselves.
I still say “professional sports” is an oxymoron and I digress. Cougar Basketball is on
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However, the news conference very quickly became about Jerry Jones, most notably about how defensive he was over the hiring of Schottenheimer.
The first question was a simple inquiry on why he hired Schottenheimer following the expiration of McCarthy’s contract, which led to an emotional, 10-minute diatribe that was only vaguely related to Jerry’s long history of hiring successful head coaches for the Cowboys.
“In the almost 35 years that I’ve been involved with the Dallas Cowboys, I’ve only missed one Senior Bowl,” Jones said. “Thirty-five years. And I think I missed one [NFL scouting] combine, in 35 years. At the NFL, over the last four or five years, we want to come in a day early so that we can visit with prospective coaches for the future of my team and any other teams. In 35 years I don’t think I’ve ever visited with a coach, but what in my heart and mind I wasn’t having an interview. I don’t think I’ve ever had a coach visit with me that wasn’t prospectively thinking maybe someday our paths might cross … I’ve been around a lot of coaches. As a matter of fact I wanted to be a coach. Except I wanted to live better than I thought coaches lived.”
There is at least one reason.
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I’ve been around a lot of coaches. As a matter of fact I wanted to be a coach. Except I wanted to live better than I thought coaches lived.”
He should have said he didn’t have the balls to put in the hours……real hours, not sitting in an office as a billionaire pretending you are actually accomplishing something.
While the Cowboys haven’t accomplished much the last 3 decades or so (in terms of football), Jerry has accomplished many things on the business side. To say he has accomplished nothing is false.
Billionaires are rarely nice guys. That’s just how it works. Heck we can extrapolate that most successful business people aren’t nice guys. You have to be a jerk sometimes when you’re a leader.
Like what? And what exactly were his contributions other than hiring Jimmy Johnson and wildcatting (most of which with other people’s money, if I’m not mistaken).
We’re talking value of the team. He played in a big role in making them the most valuable team in the world. I could care less about the whole “America’s team”.
I actually had the opportunity to meet him as part of a business deal. I’ve always hated the Cowboys, so it wasn’t as exciting to me as it maybe should have been, but he’s a sharp dude and was engaging. For a billionaire, he’s exceptionally down-to-earth, and I know people who have worked for him for decades because he treats them well, but they aren’t head coaches.
He’s a very hands-on owner who thinks he knows better than everyone else. He has always been probably too involved in player decisions, but it’s his money after all. Plus, he’s getting to an age where he cares even less what anyone thinks about him, and he’s never had a great filter.
Me too and Steven and Charlotte. Yea we can all second guess why he’s still the GM too, however, calling him a name is silly. He’s a wildcatter, just like H.L.Hunt and many others. Plus he loves Glory Holes.