Comments about ‘Winning NBA Coach of the Year award doesn't lead to job security’

That's why coach of year is JOKE.

The award is a curse. More of them lose their jobs than keep them.

I distinctly recall some of you sloan bashers going on about how the Hornets "made trades to get better" and in the past we needed a coach like Scott.

Well, wrong and wrong again.

You people will never learn.

Silly management move.

In recent years, the Coach of the Year award seems little more than a popularity contest for ex-players who are now coaching. Just look at Scott, Mitchell, and Johnson. All were media darlings who had a good season and were rewarded for this, but really didn't have the substance as a coach to maintain a certain level of success, or improve on that success.

Based on the recent history of the Coach of the Year award, I would feel honored not to have received the award if I were Sloan. The year Mitchell received the award should have been Sloan's year to receive it, and the fact that Mitchell's tenure lasted only a brief period after this is perhaps a certain measure of poetic justice.

The award is not a curse. The fact that so many coaches have been fired or have left is simply a reflection on the criteria voters seem to use to select the typically undeserving or unproven recipients.

As the legendary Bum Phillips said:
"There's two kinds of coaches. Them that's been fired and them that's fixin' to be."