Quote:The head coach, much like the commanding officer of a naval unit, is responsible for what his team does. Like the old 'the buck stops here' sign that president Truman supposedly had on his desk, so it is with the HC. 

 

General Douglas MacArthur early in WWII got run off the Bataan peninsula and left half his army and the entire Philippines to the Japanese because he couldn't match his green army against the seasoned Japanese military.

 

So according to you, the man who is widely considered the greatest CO of the 20th century was a bad CO because he couldn't outmatch experience when given an inexperienced group to lead.

 

MacArthur came back only after the US military gained the experience necessary to make the most of their skills and resources and crush the Japanese.

 

You will be hard pressed to find an example of a CO any time in history being able to have consistent success when leading any inexperienced group against a seasoned force unless they have a significant superiority in either numbers or technology, and in the NFL, those types of advantages are afforded to no one.

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