My inbox recently delivered a link to a website that explains itself this way:
"LRT Sports is the leading company in college coach ratings. Our full database of coach ratings and reviews provide first-hand experiences from current and former student-athletes."
The site offers unattributed reviews of college coaches across the spectrum of sports associated with these rating categories: accessible, direct, intense, motivational, cool, honest and knowledgeable. There's also an average rating. The reviews offer the opportunity to include some text, and those that do are the most enlightening.
As much as ratings like this annoy me I still found myself clicking through. I'm going to guess that you will as well, and so I'll save you a little trouble and give you the direct link to each Ivy League football coach's rating, in the alphabetical order of schools:
James Perry, Brown
Al Bagnoli, Columbia
David Archer, Cornell
Buddy Teevens, Dartmouth
Tim Murphy, Harvard
Ray Priore, Penn
Bob Surace, Princeton
Tony Reno, Yale
Ratings for each of the full roster of Dartmouth head coaches can be found HERE.
Green Alert Take: The headline for today's post wasn't chosen on a whim. I strongly caution against taking these ratings too seriously. They are like cartoon caricatures in that some people may vaguely recognize the person portrayed while others may think they don't remotely represent the subject.
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EXTRA POINT
I did a bit of channel hopping yesterday on a lazy Sunday afternoon, switching between the NFL offerings and U.S. Open golf. Maybe it's the fact that neither Dartmouth nor Penn State is playing, maybe it's the lack of people in the stands, or maybe it's a combination of the two, but right now my enthusiasm for football is pretty low. Could it be because I don't think they should be playing?
