It’s rare that universities hire head coaches who have never had college head-coaching experience. The examples of coaches who excelled as assistants or at a lower level but failed as head coaches are legion (Jerry Faust, John Bunting, Ted Roof, Carl Franks and Mike O’Cain come to mind).
When it becomes clear that a coach has been promoted above his competence level, his contract is bought out by big-money boosters and the coach slips back in as an assistant somewhere and does well at that lower level. But what do the voters of the United States do when they find that they have promoted a president to the toughest executive office in the world and the man is not fit for the job, in temperament or in skills?
Too bad we can’t use some of the billions in bailout money to buy out Barack Obama’s contract and get someone with more executive experience, like, say, the manager of a Bojangles restaurant.
