Could not resist celebrating the end of the Bush presidency with a list of the most desirable departures in my sports memory. Oddly there has never been a coach at Oregon I desperately wanted to see leave. I arrived in 1990 when Rich Brooks was coach and his final season they won the Pac-10. Jerry Green's final year before bolting for Tennessee was pretty strong with an NIT birth.
As a Yankees fan they've been on a nice tear and the last manager who made me lose my lunch was Stump Merril in 1991 who was replaced by Buck Showalter who got them back to the playoffs in 1995.
I was openly calling for the Jets to can Eric Mangini after this seasons collapse down the stretch and of course Isiah Thomas was a complete and total embarassment during his time with my beloved Knicks.
On a broader scale you have the classless cheater Kelvin Sampson who was found guilty of several recruiting violations as head basketball coach of Oklahoma and Indiana by the NCAA ethics committee. You might remember the charming tenure at Minnesota by Clem Haskins when the Gophers were found to be guilty in one of the worst academic fraud cases in college basketball history. He basically was barred in one of the most severe penalties ever handed down to an individual.
While Miami football in the 1980's might have had the term "renegade program" most often attached to them, they didn't touch what Barry Switzer had going on at Oklahoma. Scandal after scandal culminating with his quarterback, Charles Thompson, on the cover of Sports Illustrated in handcuffs for running a cocaine distribution ring.
After further review, nothing the above coaches or managers did led to death, suffering and the borderline collapse of our economy. Good riddance President W. Shortbus!
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