Wednesday, October 16 is Nationwide Boss’s Day. Whether or not you’re keen on your boss or hate them doesn’t matter to us. We’re right here to rank the three worst bosses in sports activities proper now.
And it’s exhausting to consider that Invoice Belichick is ineligible to make the listing this 12 months. There’s at all times subsequent 12 months.
3. Shad Khan, Proprietor, Jacksonville Jaguars
Khan purchased the Jaguars in 2012. Since then, they’ve had the worst file within the NFL at 61-140. Even the New York Jets have received 71 video games since 2012. Mockingly, the Cleveland Browns have additionally received simply 71 video games since 2012, the identical 12 months Jimmy Haslam bought the crew.
Humorous that the Browns, Jets and Jaguars all have bosses that appear inept. However Khan’s Jaguars have 10 fewer victories than the following two worst groups. That’s fairly dangerous.
After Gus Bradley went 14-28 as the top coach of the Jaguars, Khan changed him with Doug Merrone, and issues began to search for for the group. In Merrone’s first season as the top coach, he introduced the Jaguars to the AFC Championship. However Blake Bortles couldn’t defeat Tom Brady’s New England Patriots.
Over his subsequent three seasons, Merrone completed in final place of the AFC South and didn’t return to the playoffs. In 2020, the Jaguars solely received a single sport, awarding them the No. 1 general decide, which might change into Clemson’s Trevor Lawrence.
Too dangerous Khan employed City Meyer to educate him. What a catastrophe, because the once-famed school coach was a comedy of errors that included inappropriate dancing in school bars and assaulting his kicker, Josh Lambo.
Maybe Belichick will change into eligible to crack this listing in 2025 if Khan faucets him as the brand new coach of the Jaguars. Absolutely that will not backfire.
2. Trent Dilfer, Head Coach, UAB
supply: Getty Photos Dilfer is arguably a worse coach than he was quarterback. Ah, come on. That’s in all probability not being honest to the man that threw 129 interceptions to 113 touchdowns all through his NFL profession.
After spending 13 years within the NFL, Dilfer dabbled in broadcasting earlier than occurring to educate highschool soccer. In 2022, he was employed as the top coach of the College of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). He’ll be the primary to remind you, it’s not Alabama.
He critically referred to as his youngsters as much as the rostrum with him after a 41-18 blowout as a result of “it’s not like that is freaking Alabama.”
Dilfer inherited a great UAB crew and has sunk the ship in simply two seasons. He’s 5-13 as their head coach, and he always appears to have extra questions than options on the right way to flip this system round.
It looks like it’s solely a matter of time earlier than UAB decides to go in a special route.
1. John Fisher, Proprietor, Oakland Athletic’s
Obligatory Credit score: Kelley L Cox-Imagn Photos The primary two bosses on this listing had been simply flat out dangerous at their jobs. Not solely does Fisher personal probably the most irrelevant entities in skilled sports activities, however he additionally made a giant ass out of himself in 2024.
Except you reside beneath a rock, you already know that the A’s are shifting to Las Vegas. That’s concerning the largest story surrounding the crew in fairly a while.
The A’s received the World Collection in 1989. Since then, the furthest they’ve ever made it was the Nationwide League Championship Collection in 2006, which was Fisher’s first season proudly owning the crew. Ever since? They haven’t made it out of the division sequence.
However let’s depart their failures alone. Fisher determined to maneuver the crew out of Oakland as a result of town was unable to succeed in an settlement with him on a brand new stadium.
What’s higher? He actually didn’t have a lot of a backup plan. The A’s received’t play video games in Las Vegas till the 2028 MLB season. Within the meantime, Oakland will play their subsequent three seasons at Sutter Well being Park in Sacramento, residence of the River Cats, the AAA associates of the San Francisco Giants.
