I saw sportscasters on two
stations yesterday poke fun of Marc Trestman.
The ex-Bears coach has been hired as head coach and general manager of
the Tampa Bay team—so far unnamed—in the new XFL football league.
Strange how nobody in the Chicago
sports’ media was making fun of Trestman when he was hired by the McCaskeys
back in 2013. I seem to remember one
sports’ anchor who said he was going to run out and buy Trestman’s book on leadership
and teamwork. Me, I wanted to see who
published the book, and, as far as I can tell, it was self-published. Why does that matter? Let’s just say anything self-published lacks
a certain gravitas that comes with books by Knopf or Viking.
I also thought Trestman sounded
and looked weird; the clip I saw of him yesterday reminded me of that, only
more so now. I’m not trying to beat up
on the guy. At certain points in their
coaching careers, Doug Collins and Dave Wannstedt did, too, and they got fired. The thing about Trestman is he started out
that way.
I think it’s the product of trying
too hard and failing to meet possibly impossible expectations, Trestman’s as
well as everyone else’s. Nothing about
this strikes me as funny. People who now
treat Trestman as a joke are, if anything, sad verging on pathetic. Oh, and hypocritical.
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