Tony Sparano finishes 2nd in "Coach of the Year" voting

by Matty I on Jan 4, 2009 12:18 PM EST Comment 13 comments

The Associated Press just announced that Falcons head coach Mike Smith has won the AP's Coach of the Year award. Tony Sparano came in 2nd in the voting.

The voting was as close as it gets, with Smith picking up 23.5 votes and Sparano getting 22.5 votes. My question is who the other 4 votes went to. How could anyone not vote for either Smith or Sparano? Those people should be stripped of their voting rights.

Either way, this just adds to the disrespect of the Dolphins by the media this year. I guess leading the biggest single-season turnaround in NFL history doesn't count for much. But I'm sure Tony will take a playoff win over this award anyways.

GO DOLPHINS!!!

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Slap round the face

by Corroncho on Jan 4, 2009 12:20 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Tony will be fired up

by Corroncho on Jan 4, 2009 12:20 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

wtf thats is SUCH BS!!

qhatever… yeah and Peyton is the MVP, as we all saw yesterday….

"I'm not near as deep and complicated as people think" ~Mike Tyson~

by Krab on Jan 4, 2009 12:21 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

W/E

we had a bigger turnaround than them. He is a Dolphin, and the Dolphins haven’t gotten any respect all year. Why should this award be any different? But I assure you Tony doesn’t care about this award.

"I told you what it takes to come in here and do what you just did! I told you exactly what it takes. It takes big ones!"

-Tony Sparano
-She

by Neo on Jan 4, 2009 12:24 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

yeah, i'm sure you are right on that

still though, suchhhhh bs…

"I'm not near as deep and complicated as people think" ~Mike Tyson~

by Krab on Jan 4, 2009 12:27 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Jeff Fischer 3 Bilicheat 1

IAMLEGEND

by woomar on Jan 4, 2009 12:37 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

just saw that

that’s garbage….those 4 voters who didn’t vote for Sparano or Smith should lose their voting rights.

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by Matty I on Jan 4, 2009 12:40 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

WTF did either one of those two did

I can see Harbaugh’s name in the discussion, but not those two

"Chad Pennington should be MVP"-Woody Paige, Around the Horn 12-18-08

by rangerjae on Jan 5, 2009 7:23 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

*do

"Chad Pennington should be MVP"-Woody Paige, Around the Horn 12-18-08

by rangerjae on Jan 5, 2009 10:13 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I guess turning a 1-15 team into a playoff team is not enough.

PLAYOFFS?!

by SSreporters on Jan 4, 2009 1:33 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Blame Parcells

I guarantee you that if Bill Parcells were not a member of the organization Sparano would have won coach of the year.

He’s so adored by the media and such a big name, that he casts an unfair shadow over the job that everyone else has done. Speaking as an outsider, I can tell you that the people I know and talk to credit Parcells first and foremost for everything that has happened with the Dolphins.

I absolutely believe that to be wrong and unfair. To me, there’s no doubt that Sparano is coach of the year and he doesn’t get enough credit for the turnaround… but I don’t believe the media at large sees it that way. They see Bill Parcells sitting in a booth and figure that everything is his doing.

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by JasonB on Jan 4, 2009 3:04 PM EST reply actions 0 recs