How Whitlock is poisoning ESPN's "black Grantland"
 

http://deadspin.com/how-jason-whitlo...ium=socialflow

Very long read. Interesting, infuriating, sad, funny, and most likely headed to DC.

Enjoy...

Read for about 5 mins or so.....scrolled down...kept scrolling and realized tl;dr

Five minutes?

I lasted about 5 seconds before I realized I don't really care.

He and Pioli are the same person, apparently.

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i read op's title and realized i didnt care

Completely this. It was the most Pioli thing ever. The "working for the white man" lecture had me laughing.

The irony being that no sports writer campaigned against Pioli than Jason Whitlock. Didn't he coin the Egoli nickname?

Whitlock was fully behind us with the Pioli disaster. He even donated money.


I will give him a break.

Agree with notorious.


But...cliff notes?

The email he wrote that woman is pretty funny. So very self-important.

Whitlock is a delusional, egotistical, insecure, unqualified, paranoid borderline 9/11 truther.

Great article. The writer beats the shit out of Whitlock.

Game truly does recognize game.

I worked for a coach a few years back that was like this, in many ways.
He had a notebook he handed over that covered every elementary thing he expected. Some of it was great, game plans, weekly schedules, expectations. Other parts were ridiculous. How to wear your hat. How to dress at clinics, etc.
I get that it's "his" and he wants to make sure it reflects his vision. But much like the HC I worked for, you hire good people, and at some point you have to allow them to do their job.

I can't decide if coaches just naturally have this uber control freak thing or the more successful coaches get there by being control freaks and had to adapt to that personality from guys or women they started off as assistants for.

I've worked for both...

I've worked for two coaches who won multiple state titles. Both GREAT guys.
They are both different as far as control. I mean, they both have imposed their will on the program, but one of them made sure he was the fact of the program, and planned everything to the nth degree. The other one has.control, but within the program you really don't feel it. Things are just what they are because that's how they are.

But I also think you don't get anywhere in coaching (or any leadership) unless you think you've got the answers no one else does, and that you need to be followed in order to succeed.