supply: Getty Photographs 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 laborious to consider that Invoice Belichick is ineligible to make the record this yr. There’s at all times subsequent yr.
3. Shad Khan, Proprietor, Jacksonville Jaguars
Khan purchased the Jaguars in 2012. Since then, they’ve had the worst document within the NFL at 61-140. Even the New York Jets have received 71 video games since 2012. Sarcastically, the Cleveland Browns have additionally received simply 71 video games since 2012, the identical yr Jimmy Haslam bought the group.
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 unhealthy.
After Gus Bradley went 14-28 as the top coach of the Jaguars, Khan changed him with Doug Merrone, and issues began to lookup 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 recreation, awarding them the No. 1 general decide, which might grow to be Clemson’s Trevor Lawrence.
Too unhealthy Khan employed City Meyer to teach 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 grow to be eligible to crack this record 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 Photographs Dilfer is arguably a worse coach than he was quarterback. Ah, come on. That’s in all probability not being truthful 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 teach 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 significantly known as his kids 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 group and has sunk the ship in simply two seasons. He’s 5-13 as their head coach, and he continually appears to have extra questions than options on how one can flip this system round.
It looks like it’s solely a matter of time earlier than UAB decides to go in a special path.
1. John Fisher, Proprietor, Oakland Athletic’s
Obligatory Credit score: Kelley L Cox-Imagn Photographs The primary two bosses on this record have been simply flat out unhealthy at their jobs. Not solely does Fisher personal probably the most irrelevant entities in skilled sports activities, however he additionally made a big ass out of himself in 2024.
Except you reside underneath a rock, you already know that the A’s are shifting to Las Vegas. That’s concerning the largest story surrounding the group in fairly a while.
The A’s received the World Sequence in 1989. Since then, the furthest they’ve ever made it was the Nationwide League Championship Sequence in 2006, which was Fisher’s first season proudly owning the group. Ever since? They haven’t made it out of the division collection.
However let’s depart their failures alone. Fisher determined to maneuver the group out of Oakland as a result of the 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, dwelling of the River Cats, the AAA associates of the San Francisco Giants.
