Des Moines Register Media -- Sports Content Coach

It's amusing to think of how the old-school sports editors I worked for back in the day would have reacted had their title been changed to "sports content coach."

Probably also a good bet that if the sports content coach receives a vote of confidence from management, it's time to start sending resumes.

 

It'll be interesting to see who manages the overtime, travel budget and the like.
And who takes the fall when all of it is over budget.

 

You have to write until the whistle.

 

This doesn't sound like a sports editor position renamed at all.

Sadly, the position looks to be exactly what it sounds like...a coach. Which seems absolutely pointless in a newsroom environment.

 

I want to be the Bobby Knight of sports content coaching. My writers will graduate, we'll win awards, but I get to throw chairs and shit. And dare management to replace me.

 

I can coach with the best of them. I wonder if you get the job you can suck up to management yet pull a wink-wink with your staff and just tell them, "I know this job of mine is bullshit; and you know it's bullshit, but let's look at your stories just for grins, so I have something to do." Seriously, is this guy only in charge of coaching or scheduling, etc? Sounds like a very cushy sports job, except you are working for fricking Gannett, which I believe is worst company in the history of the world.

 

And then one day you choke the agate clerk ...

 

Can the coach get technical fouls?

 

And make game faces in meetings.

 

"Coach, will we have a travel budget to cover the playoffs this year?"

"PLAYOFFS!?!? PLAYOFFS!? You kiddin' me, you wanna talk. . . .PLAYOFFS!?"

 

"I just hope we can win a game!"

 

I'd lead off with the Herm Edwards "Put your name on it!" classic tirade.