Have you ever wanted to pull a Chris Snow?

About a year ago, the AD on my D1 beat asked me to be his new media/SID guy. The pay was double what I make here. I'd run his department, he said.

Thought about it.

Told him no.

A few weeks later, we finished an investigation into the school that began before the offer was made. The resulting stories have been awesome. The dept. is in disarray. The AD is on his way out.

I can't tell you how largely my prayers were answered in regards to my decision.

I never once really thought about leaving newspapers, however the money was a lure, I'll admit. I love this business too much to give it all up for something else. Because I don't care what kind of evidence you present me, you cannot go home again.

 

see: larry brooks, n.y. post. don't know that another comes to mind, though.

 

Besides Snow, another example is Terry Bledsoe, who was a sports columnist at the Milwaukee Journal in the 1970s and then became an assistant GM with the NY Giants and then GB of the Buffalo Bills.

 

oh, former giants gm ernie accorsi made the move from sportswriter in philly to baltimore colts p.r., then climbed up. but brooks is the only one i know who went to the other side but then came back. marty hurney, gm of the carolina panthers, was also a scribe who made the move to the other side.

 

Wasn't Fred Claire a newspaper guy before he was at the Dodgers?

 

David Benner in Indy, from Indy Star beat guy to Pacers VP of public relations. And a great guy.

 

Both Benners are good people.

 

My assumption, right or wrong, is that these guys you all mention were well established in newspapers before they made the flip flop. I'm thinking the example of unknowns who made it back is much smaller.

 

Does coaching Little League count?

 

I'd love to try my hand as the GM of an MLB team, but I'm not delusional enough to think it would ever, ever, ever, ever, ever happen.

 

Why not?

 

Around here, apparently it does.