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Singletary, 52, went 5-10 this season and 8-8 in 2009, his first as head coach in full. He posted a 5-4 record as interim coach after the team fired Mike Nolan during the 2008 season.
I really enjoyed the fire and passion that Mike Singletary brought to work as the head coach of the 49er's. It was that type of attitude that made people winners when I was a kid. Coaches demanded excellence and didn't compromise. He was an old school coach that had a desire that isn't seen in today's game. Unfortunately, it doesn't work anymore and that's why he only had five wins this year. The kids that are playing now are many times products of poor parenting like I mentioned in an article just a few days ago called "Highly Explosive". Being a fiery head coach is a thing of the past. You would never have seen a player going toe to toe with a coach like Troy Smith did yesterday during their lost to the Rams.
It wouldn't have mattered who was wrong. The coach was like your father on the field and you didn't question him at all. You mumbled under your breath and kept it moving. The problem is, very few kids are growing up with their fathers and a strong male presence is foreign to them. So having a man get off in their butts about something is a form of disrespect in their eyes.
Coaches like Vince Lombardi(Packers), Mike Ditka(Bears) and Chuck Noll(Steelers) would never have been able to coach in this era. They were too demanding and wouldn't have catered to these kids the way coaches have to today. See when those guys were coaching they had players that had been taught to respect authority from birth. Athletes now are loose cannons because they haven't been trained at home.
I remember last year during the college football bowl season Mark Mangino, the head coach of the Kansas Jay Hawks at the time, was fired. He was dismissed because players complained that he was disrespecting them. He once told a kid at halftime, "You keep talking about being a 1000 yard rusher but you haven't done $%#!." The kid said that coach called him out in front of the team and disrespected him. Are you kidding me? He also threw a kid out of his chair because he was sleeping during a team meeting prior to the bowl. So the guy called his mother from the bowl sight and told her that he wanted to transfer. Are you listening to me people? He called his mother and she rushed to his aid!
Twenty or thirty years ago he would've called his mother and she would've cursed him out for sleeping in the meeting. We're raising soft kids and the world won't give them a break. So you can either get in the butts now or let the world throw them around. It's up to you. Coaches use to help make men out of boys. Now they have to pamper them. What's your opinion?
Jay Graves
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
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