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Originally Posted by RavennaAl
As a side note, in this day and age of where teams will fire managers and coaches after 2 or 3 bad seasons, the Los Angeles Dodgers had only 2 managers in 43 years!  Walt Alston managed the team from 1954 until he retired in 1976. Then Tommy Lasorda took over until he retired in 1996. I think that's an incredible record especially considering how quick teams have become to clean house since the late 70's or therabouts.   |
And Jo-Pa has been the coach at Penn St. for nearly that same stretch of years himself. The teams which have stuck with one manager/coach over long periods have gone through their fallow periods but have also enjoyed consistency, evolution, and multiple winning and championship seasons. A lesson which more organisations should pay attention to instead of trying to always find the Coach with the Silver Bullet.