Tag: head coach

  • NBA Coaches With a Championship on Different Teams

    The NBA, including its short time under the BAA name, has been around since 1946. Over the years, 19 different franchises have won the championship. However, only 3 head coaches have been part of a title-winning side with more than one franchise: Alex Hannum, Pat Riley and Phil Jackson.

  • LeBron James & His Head Coaches Through the Years

    LeBron James & His Head Coaches Through the Years

    The weird and surprising firing of David Blatt makes Tyronn Lue the fifth head LeBron James has worked with since entering the NBA almost 13 years ago. Paul Silas, Mike Brown, Erik Spoelstra and Blatt preceded him.

  • Top 10 Highest Paid NBA Coaches in 2015-2016

    Top 10 Highest Paid NBA Coaches in 2015-2016

    Among the 10 highest paid coaches in the NBA, there are four with a championship ring (Gregg Popovich, Steve Kerr, Rick Carlisle, Doc Rivers) and two who are in their first season on the job, coming from college basketball this summer – Fred Hoiberg (Chicago Bulls) and Billy Donovan (Oklahoma City Thunder).

  • College Football Fired Head Coaches of 2015 Season

    College Football Fired Head Coaches of 2015 Season

    In the 2015 college football season 12 head coaches have been fired, although that might not be the final numbers as there are still conference championship games, bowl games and Sun Belt conference games to play. Among the notable names to be let go are Mark Richt from Georgia, Steve Sarkisian from USC, Al Golden from Miami and Paul Rhoads from Iowa State.

  • Top 10 Highest Paid NFL Coaches in 2015

    Top 10 Highest Paid NFL Coaches in 2015

    With all the money rolling around in the NFL, coaches are bound to pick up some of it. The top 10 highest paid of them in the league are all making $6 million a season or more. Five of them (Pete Carroll, Bill Belichick, Sean Payton, John Harbaugh and Tom Coughlin) have won a Super Bowl.

  • Texas Longhorns – Best Coaching Job in College Football, According to ESPN

    A very interesting project at ESPN ranked the 65 power conference programs by the attractivity of the head coaching job. The “winners”? Texas, despite their lack of success, followed by Alabama, USC, Ohio State and surprisingly, Florida.

  • Will Muschamp Shouldn’t be a Head Coach Next Season

    Will Muschamp Shouldn’t be a Head Coach Next Season

    It’s not going to be a happy ending for Will Muschamp at Florida, regardless of the results in his remaining games at head coach. He’s already thinking about the future and coaching next season. The only capacity that it will happen in will be if he’s willing to go back to being a defensive coordinator.

  • Oakland Raiders: Dennis Allen Gets Fired – What’s Next?

    Oakland Raiders: Dennis Allen Gets Fired – What’s Next?

    The Oakland Raiders firing their head coach, in this case Dennis Allen, feels like the most natural thing in the world. That’s how bad things have been for the franchise for over a decade, and nothing suggests it’s changing any time soon.

  • Los Angeles Lakers – Byron Scott is Their New Head Coach

    Los Angeles Lakers – Byron Scott is Their New Head Coach

    It took the Los Angeles Lakers a very long time to figure out who will be their next head coach, so after filling their roster with draft picks, trades and free agent signings, they ended up signing Byron Scott, a big part of the Showtime Lakers during the 1980’s, to try and steer the ship back in the right direction.

  • Milwaukee Bucks – Jason Kidd is Their New Head Coach

    Milwaukee Bucks – Jason Kidd is Their New Head Coach

    The early thunder of free agency in the NBA was stolen from the players by a head coach who was recently on the court himself, Jason Kidd, as the Brooklyn Nets received two second-round draft picks from the Milwaukee Bucks for someone who has shown he is ambitious but also not afraid of stepping on heads in order to get what he wants.