Apparently there are lot of people in this country that feel qualified to coach the Wisconsin Badgers football team
The NCAA might want to review their application standards for a major head coaching position. The Wisconsin Badgers hired Paul Chryst as their new coach, we all know that. However some of the applications received during the hiring process take the cake.
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Per SI.com, one guy from Chandler, Arizona applied because he is really good at NCAA football on Xbox 360. Wow. Really dude? I’m pretty darn good at NCAA Football on my Playstation 3 but I’m not about to go out and apply for the University of Arizona football job once it opens just because I took my fictional team to a bowl.
SI.com said via the AP that he wasn’t the only one who felt his video game prowess qualified him for the job. Apparently a guy named Greg Miller, who said he was unemployed and living with his parents in Racine, listed among his football experience the video games Madden ’92, Bill Walsh ’93 and NCAA Football ’96 and ’97. He wrote the following in a cover letter to athletic director Barry Alvarez.
"I have further successfully coached from my sofa every Saturday since 1987"
That may be right, but I can think thousands more people could say the same thing. Aren’t you supposed to separate yourself from the competition in a cover letter? That won’t cut it. I’m guessing he didn’t get an interview.
One guy in Michigan said his years coaching Kindergartners in YMCA football qualified him. Sure, you can find it funny and clearly these guys applied in jest, I hope, but if any of them were semi-serious, what a lack of respect for a storied program over the last 20 years. You didn’t hear about these types of applications for Michigan or Nebraska jobs, did you?
Here’s a tip. Want a college coaching job? Go to the University of Pittsburgh for a year or two and pretty much any job in the country is yours after that point.