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I'm missing your point. Sad as it is the Nagy years are the best stretch since George took over. (unless you give him credit for 2012 and call that an era) This may be as good as it gets under him. Why didn't Virginia marry or raise real football guys?

It doesn't. In my lifetime he is the third best head coach of the Bears. So I'm not expecting much from the next hire.

It's terrible by most franchise standards. With the Bears, it's not far from normal. But as bad as Nagy is this year, he has one of the highest winning percentages of Bear's head coaches in our lifetime.

If you're thinking the Bears are really bad at hiring Head Coaches, then it is making the point. I can almost forgive their lack of ability in drafting quarterbacks, but their ineptness at hiring head coaches is astounding.

I updated. I thought Lovie left on his own.

The others were really, really, bad. Actually I forgot Smith was fired. I thought he resigned. Smith was the best they fired, or Dikta. But I'll take Nagy over Fox, Trestman, Jauron, Wannstedt, Gibron, Pardee, Armstrong and any others I'm missing.

Unlike Urban Meyer who is better at leading college athletes while living out his frat guy fantasies. It's spectacular how badly a coach could work out. I'm thinking Nagy is the best head coach the Bears will have ever fired. I'm guessing in ten years he won't seem as bad as he does now.

I hope the Bears can win two more and save his job. Lol. I'm wondering what timing is best for him and his next job. 33-30 with two playoff appearances will get him a solid position somewhere.

Peace on earth.

So he's purposely tanking? How does he benefit him either short or long term?

I'm expecting no baseball next year, a sixty game season at the most. I'm taking a very bearish position.

First round since July. Shot a 90. I think I'll stick to coaching if I can't play regularly.

Crazy.

I wonder if any of my students will understand some of the financial education we do. I wasted a couple decades.

Like the Sox. One big run for the Bulls another nice streak by the Hawks with decades of historically horrible teams on either side. Easily Chicago has thev worst collection of sports teams. At least it isn't staring me in the face every day.

Yep. It must be harder than we think.

I think you proved my point. 17 different teams out of 26. Not a lot of sustained, year after year success, for most teams.

1980s and 1990s we're the golden age of Chicago sports. Too bad most of y'all weren't born.

I agree that a fleet of moving trucks should be arriving at Halas Hall. But I'm also starting to believe that at any given point in time there are only half a dozen executives and head coaches in each sport that have it figured out and can sustain some success. The other seventy five percent are going to fail every year. It's just not as easy as it looks from the outside. And seriously, how can the Bears go fifty years without a top five quarterback.

So new GM then coach coming soon to the Bears. The team looks great right now.

Board of Ed finally finished their investigation and made a ruling.

Sorry.

I still like the idea of eliminating all MLB team control. Let the leagues pay them and let the players cut their best deal with any team.

So true.

The whole relationship between MLB and minor leagues is weird. I'm certain Barons owner Don Logan doesn't want MLB dictating what he has to pay his players. I doubt he can afford the level most fans, myself included, believe those guys should be earning. I also doubt all those MiLB owners want to sell their teams. All MLB really needs is a place for their draft picks to go and kill time until they are needed, if ever. Why have players under any MLB team's grasp if they aren't on a MLB 25 man roster? I'd like to explore stopping affiliates. MLB teams draft players and either put them on the 25 and pay them or they get cut and become free agents and can go play anywhere. Let the player cut the best deal. Instead of a team holding him back in AA if he can find a AAA that will employ him, he can go. Make every baseball team independent. The MLB draft become five rounds and after that everyone else is a free agent, eligible to sign with any team. Put another way, imagine if in June the team needs a right fielder ( easy I know) now imagine a world without affiliates. The best right fielder in AAA could be signed regardless of where he's playing. Why have talented players held back?