Worst head coach/manager ever?

As a Kings fanboi, I will say Reynolds had a better record than every coach he had to replace mid-season.

 

Isaiah Thomas. Should lead the first HOF class in this topic.

May I also submit as a group the Cubs' College of Coaches?

 

Marinelli ran a Cover 2 with that Lions team.
A defense spectacularly ill-suited to the personnel he had on the roster.
Square peg in a round hole.
It took a lot of fuck-ups over a long period of time to finally get to 0-16, but at the end Marinelli was driving the car.

 

Ray Handley was the subject of one of my favorite headlines in the NY Post: Reign of Error. As a 16-year-old, that's where I began to really pay attention to newspapers, which eventually became my career.

ML Carr's stint with the Celtics wasn't very good. Nor was Rick Pitino's.
Dave Lewis' one-year stint with the Bruins was a disaster.
Butch Hobson with the Red Sox didn't work out very well.

 

Are you fucking serious?

 

Well, that, and the fact that they made it REALLY worth Grant's while to come back for a year - a lifetime consulting contract, which still pays him several hundred thousand dollars a year even though he rarely shows up at his office any more.

The interesting thing about Steckel is that he was at least competent when it came to X's and O's - he was the offensive coordinator for two Super Bowl teams after his Vikings stint. But he clearly never should have been a head coach, and he really never should have coached that team; the team culture was used to Grant starting training camp late and running easy practices, and by mid-November Steckel had an absolute mutiny on his hands because they practiced so much and so hard. His being fundamentally insane didn't help either - this is a guy whose motivational tools included punching himself in the face, and eating peanut butter out of what appeared to be a soiled diaper.

 

That Viking team gave up 45, 42, 34, 31, 51, 38 over the last six weeks of the '84 season.
They positively laid down for Steckel.
That was a veteran team used to a certain style.
And it wasn't all a talent problem.
A few years later they had one of the best defenses in the league.

 

Baseball wise I was never impressed with Jim Riggleman. Honestly, I'm not impressed with Bobby Valentine either, but people seem to think he's ok

In the NBA, I was certainly not impressed with Jim Cleamons short run in Dallas (though I wouldn't argue with many other choices, including Brian Winters...I just had to sit through those miserable Cleamons' years)

NFL, I hated the Dave Campo years in Dallas, but if I were trying to get a good draft pick in the next draft I'd hire Romeo Crennel.

As for hockey, they all suck this year. But I'd avoid Dave Chambers.

 

Barry Switzer agrees.

 

Bill LaForge. The Flyers considered him before hiring Keenan.

Leeman Bennett was mentioned earlier. I was a big Falcons fan in those days and to this day do not understand why Rankin Smith made such a stupid decision.

 

Stories I heard about Bill LaForge during his OHL days were legendary.

 

Here! Here! Huggy. I've heard his WHL teams were disciples of the old Broad Street Bullies, which accounted for his brief appeal to the Sniders.