I mean, look... they look racist by not just paying him market value right away. They look cheap by trying to lowball the NFC's top coach. They look stupid by thinking he'd take less and stay.
C'mon! I vote stupid. But all's well that ends well, I guess!
BEARS!
2007-03-01 03:02:01 · 19 answers · asked by AgentZero 4 in Sports ➔ Football (American)
hey everybody! lokk at the tough guy BARRY M. getting all mad and bent out of shape because of a question. way to flex from your mom's basement PC. BARRY M, you are one of lifes winners!
here's a flex for you. LEARN TO READ. if you could, you'd see my choice is stupid, not racism (so it looks like you're a dumbf*ck)
and btw, NFL Countdown on ESPN brought the racial part up too... last I checked black folks don't run ESPN.
2007-03-01 05:49:05 · update #1
All of the above I think. They wanted him to prove himself before they gave him anymore money. The Bears din't think that they had any chance of making the Super Bowl since it hadn't happened in a long time. But, when they actually did make it, it sprung something and now they think they have a good thing going. And they really are stupid for thinking he would stay for less money. A coach that gets a team to a Super Bowl, although they didn't win it, isn't going to take a low amount of money and not think about leaving the team.
2007-03-01 04:15:56 · answer #1 · answered by Jeff B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bears' front office is notoriously cheap ... like many other teams that have recently been successful.
However, Jerry Angelo (who also signed an extension on his contract with the team) drew this contract negotiation out too long with a proven winning coach in Lovie Smith. This brings stupidity into the combination.
However, my vote is CHEAP!
2007-03-01 13:35:34 · answer #2 · answered by icehoundxx 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My vote is for cheap.
I haven't followed his career closely but it seems that he stepped up a career notch by taking his team to the Super Bowl. I don't know that he is necessarily the best NFC coach but its hard to argue your results when you are one of the last two teams standing. He may have been paid OK for his performance in prior seasons. He has now stepped up to a new level and his pay has too.
Any owner or businessman will try to get the most for the least. You can't blame them for trying to hold down their cost any more than Lovie's agent for pursuing a salary increase. The fact is that the process worked. The two sides negotiated to a solution in the middle.
2007-03-01 12:50:06 · answer #3 · answered by TTU 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bears ownership is very cheap and a little stupid. I understand they've been burned in the past by coaches that couldn't get it done, but Lovie has ALREADY taken them to the Super Bowl, and with a quarterback that was (to put it nicely) inconsistent. I firmly believe that race had nothing to do with it. Too many times, people say, "Oh, he's black! They must not be paying him because he's black!" To me, that is stupid.
2007-03-01 12:54:12 · answer #4 · answered by D-Low 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bears are just cheap and they have a history of this sort of things.
Barry M- Yes. Some Blacks are racist but so is everyone else in America but no one wants to admit, so can it. Personally I would rather know that some one is racist rather than to not know and be blind sided. So consider yourself lucky, that you have all those examples of "racism" because most minorities dont.
2007-03-01 14:20:41 · answer #5 · answered by MJMGrand 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mike McCaskey and the whole family is cheap. It's not about getting burned it's about the whole organization being cheap...they refused to pay Richard Dent in 85 after he was given the MVP for the SuperBowl. The worst ownership in the NFL
2007-03-01 11:07:37 · answer #6 · answered by jim 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cheap. Why is it with black people everything has to be race. I think Black people are more racist. Example with the exception of Bill Cosby EVERY black comedian has to have a bit about white people this white people that. If it werent for white people most blacks would be unemployed. How many black owned businesses hire just blacks. Also where is White history month or White colleges. for that matter where is the united white people college fund or the National Association for the advancedment of white people? how about white entertainment television i have never seen a magazine devoted to white people like JET
Also my vote for president in 2008 is Barack Obama so this aint some crazy kill all blacks dumbf*ck
2007-03-01 11:16:26 · answer #7 · answered by barry m 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I believe that it is a little of all three. Stupid is definately one of the reasons that you would not give a coach a new contract that just led your team to the Super Bowl. cheap is because they spent too much moneyon mediocre players.
2007-03-01 15:12:35 · answer #8 · answered by nate dogg 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not that i'll ever make excuses for McCaskey, But hey...they were burned by Dave Wannstedt,..and Dick Jaroun(sp). I think they also wanted to see what Lovie was going to do about Ron Rivera, because they weren't going to pay the both of them....
2007-03-01 11:11:35 · answer #9 · answered by strings700 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They seem to be all the above to me! Lovie did a great job and I think anybody else would have gotten a contract!
2007-03-01 11:07:04 · answer #10 · answered by Mr.Know It All 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋