Loading ...We usually wouldn’t lament over the firing of someone who works over on The Farm, but “Stanfurd football coach Walt Harris’ firing”:http://www.stanforddaily.com/article/2006/12/6/harrisGetsTheAxe comes to a surprise to us.
Well, not really, but we did want “Harris to stay”:http://clog.dailycal.org/sports/cmon-give-walt-a-chance on The Farm for at least a couple more years.
But then again, Harris should have seen the writing on the wall. With a new athletic director and horrible results on the football field, the only way Harris could have saved his job if his Cardinal could have pulled off the upset last Saturday. Of course “that didn’t happen”:http://www.dailycal.org/sharticle.php?id=22506 and there he went.
We never really liked these quick-fingered athletic director’s firing coaches after two or three years of coaching. That isn’t enough time for a coach to build a team. How can you judge a coach when the players he has are all from a regime that was far worse than when he came in.
Buddy Teevens got a lickin’ in the recruiting market ever since Jeff Tedford took the sidelines at Memorial Stadium. It isn’t Harris’ fault that he inherited a horrible football program. Teevens got axed because he turned a once promising Stanfurd football team into the laughing stock of the Pac-10.
Walt Harris, you deserved better.
At least we get to pencil in one win for Cal every year for the next four. The Axe and the Big Game will belong to the Bears for at least that long, maybe even longer.
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