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http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1208/is_3_224/ai_59021115
"There's no sane reason for all the fuss over Belichick
Sporting News, The, Jan 17, 2000 by Dan Pompei"
"But why any team would want to hire this man as a head coach is baffling. Why Patriots owner Bob Kraft apparently is willing to give Belichick more power than he was willing to give Bill Parcells is beyond all reason."
I don't know what's funnier these days: that article or the responses he got from it:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1208/is_5_224/ai_59624233
"The NFL ruled last week that Bill Belichick can't work for any other team without prior consent of the Jets, but Dan Pompei already had weighed in on the issue (TSN, January 17) when he said Belichick simply is not head-coaching material. That thought was echoed by many readers, including Daniel Kuret of Tempe, Ariz.
"Every sentence of Pompei's article on Bill Belichick was right on target," writes Kuret. "As an employee of the Browns from 1990-95, I saw firsthand the destruction Belichick caused to the organization. I was 16 at the time, basically a coach's assistant during the summer, and during my school year I worked on the weekends. The guy was the most mean-spirited person I've ever come across, in the five seasons he worked for the organization, not once did I see him thank, greet, ask how somebody was, etc. A couple people would be walking down hallways, like Pompei wrote, and Belichick would just keep his head down and keep walking. Looking back, everyone thought he was just being a jerk, but that's how he really is every day. It is a wonder teams would be willing to give him any kind of control, let alone full control."
Kevin Montminy of Portland, Maine, called Pompei's column "the best column in two years since I started reading his work. Thanks for clarifying to people there is no great mystery to this dark, introverted human. He was born to be a coordinator. To be a head coach in the NFL is so much more than schemes, only he does not realize it. His boss (Bill Parcells) was a success because of how he dealt with people, the same reasons I also believe Belichick will fail again."
However, you do have to give credit to Pompei for eating crow two years later:
http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-1332008/Belichick-deserves-credit-for-turnaround.html
"There's no sane reason for all the fuss over Belichick
Sporting News, The, Jan 17, 2000 by Dan Pompei"
"But why any team would want to hire this man as a head coach is baffling. Why Patriots owner Bob Kraft apparently is willing to give Belichick more power than he was willing to give Bill Parcells is beyond all reason."
I don't know what's funnier these days: that article or the responses he got from it:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1208/is_5_224/ai_59624233
"The NFL ruled last week that Bill Belichick can't work for any other team without prior consent of the Jets, but Dan Pompei already had weighed in on the issue (TSN, January 17) when he said Belichick simply is not head-coaching material. That thought was echoed by many readers, including Daniel Kuret of Tempe, Ariz.
"Every sentence of Pompei's article on Bill Belichick was right on target," writes Kuret. "As an employee of the Browns from 1990-95, I saw firsthand the destruction Belichick caused to the organization. I was 16 at the time, basically a coach's assistant during the summer, and during my school year I worked on the weekends. The guy was the most mean-spirited person I've ever come across, in the five seasons he worked for the organization, not once did I see him thank, greet, ask how somebody was, etc. A couple people would be walking down hallways, like Pompei wrote, and Belichick would just keep his head down and keep walking. Looking back, everyone thought he was just being a jerk, but that's how he really is every day. It is a wonder teams would be willing to give him any kind of control, let alone full control."
Kevin Montminy of Portland, Maine, called Pompei's column "the best column in two years since I started reading his work. Thanks for clarifying to people there is no great mystery to this dark, introverted human. He was born to be a coordinator. To be a head coach in the NFL is so much more than schemes, only he does not realize it. His boss (Bill Parcells) was a success because of how he dealt with people, the same reasons I also believe Belichick will fail again."
However, you do have to give credit to Pompei for eating crow two years later:
http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-1332008/Belichick-deserves-credit-for-turnaround.html
