You Decide: Best Head Coach / Manager in Chicago

by Lester A. Wiltfong Jr. on Jun 28, 2011 9:00 PM CDT in Poll

A couple days ago the Chicago Sun Times scored the five Head Coaches and Managers in the city of Chicago in ten different categories. The scores ranged from 5 (the best) to 1 (the worst). In two categories, championships won and playoffs appearances they gave either a 5 or a 0, with no gray area. Using their criteria they had Lovie Smith 4th with Blackhawks head honcho Joel Quenneville at #1.

Dead last, and no surprise, was Cubs skipper Mike Quade. White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen was #2, and Bulls head coach Tom Thibodeau was #3.

Lovie Smith had good scores in playoff appearances (5), player-relationship presence (5), leadership skills (4), trustworthy (4), and plays nicely with bosses (4). Here's what Sean Jensen had to say about Coach Smith;

‘‘Lovie Smith is among the NFL’s most-tenured coaches because of his knack for earning the trust of his players. Because he treats them like adults, his players, by and large, aim to please him. In contrast, though, Smith has rotated through assistant coaches, struggling to find the right mix, and the Bears have failed to win big games, most notably Super Bowl XLI and the NFC title game at Soldier Field in January.’’

Poll

Who is the best Head Coach / Manager in the city of Chicago?

Joel Quenneville

55 votes

Ozzie Guillen

25 votes

Tom Thibodeau

133 votes

Lovie Smith

77 votes

Mike Quade

1 votes

291 votes | Poll has closed

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I'm a sucker for Ozzie's tirades.

When you go to somebody's house, you don't crap on their floor. Being a fan of one team does NOT give you license to be a dick to fans of another.

Corollary: When people are visiting your house and behaving themselves, them being a fan of a different team is NOT a reason for you to piss in their beer.

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by Robert Rence on Jun 28, 2011 9:28 PM CDT reply actions

Just what I was going to bring to the plate

Best, or favorite. I love/hate Ozzie Guillen’s half discernible rants.

Above all; keep 'em guessing, never let them lose their sense of confusion.

by Just Dave on Jun 28, 2011 9:40 PM CDT up reply actions

They get old at times, and the Sox can be very up-and-down, but he did bring the South Side a ring

Hence my vote for him

Our manager wears 13, we were supposedly cursed, and we wear black. Let's play.

by ChiSoxRox on Jun 28, 2011 10:41 PM CDT up reply actions

It's all about Joe Q.

Never been a big baseball fan, so despite Ozzie’s ragegasms he’s off the list. Thibodeau was amazing this year, but its just one year so give it some time. So it comes down to Lovie and Quenneville. Quenneville has a ring and Lovie doesn’t, simple as that.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent - Salvor Hardin

by badsamaritan on Jun 29, 2011 12:02 AM CDT reply actions 1 recs

I can’t disagree with their rankings. In about 3 years, that list can be really changed with Tibs being higher (and of course, assuming all managers/coahces stay longer), and I say if all coaches/managers had a title won, it’d go Tibs, Q, Ozzie, Lovie, Mike Q. As it stands though, you have to go with championships first. Also, to explain Q over Ozzie, although the Hawks yankee’d the Cup last year, I still believe Ozzie was far luckier then good in 05.

Bears. Bulls. White Sox.

by The Voiss on Jun 29, 2011 1:47 AM CDT reply actions

The Hawks didn't "Yankee" the cup that year

Keith, Seabrook, Kane, Toews, Niemi, and Buff were all homegrown products. Sharp was essentially a homegrown product. The only big time free agents they brought in were Campbell and a 94 year-old Johnny Madden.

by DitkaStache on Jun 30, 2011 9:34 AM CDT up reply actions

You forgot Hossa as a free agent

and at the time, 5M for Huet didn’t seem like a bad idea… until it became a bad idea.

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by Steven Schweickert on Jun 30, 2011 10:02 AM CDT up reply actions

Mike Ditka

by Gaak on Jun 29, 2011 4:51 AM CDT reply actions 3 recs

Truth

If you go in the bathroom, turn off the lights, and say "Da Coach" 5 times while facing the mirror... Ditka will appear and slap the wussy right out of you.

by Lester A. Wiltfong Jr. on Jun 29, 2011 8:48 AM CDT up reply actions

But what if Ditka was coaching the Bears, and had a clone coaching the Bulls?

Who would be better?

Our manager wears 13, we were supposedly cursed, and we wear black. Let's play.

by ChiSoxRox on Jun 29, 2011 6:19 PM CDT up reply actions

Well it's certainly not Quade

As for the whole list, two coaches have rings, and one of them I despise (because of the team he manages), so it’s all about the Q-Stache.

by DitkaStache on Jun 29, 2011 8:18 AM CDT reply actions

Thibs

'Don't believe in you who believe in me and don't believe in me who believes in you, but believe in you who believe in yourself'

by T.Moore on Jun 29, 2011 12:03 PM CDT reply actions

Thibs.

The Hawk-o-phile in me wanted to vote for Quenneville badly, but his line changes made me want to punch a Packer fan or something. I know Q has more rings than Thibs, but Q had a fairly stacked roster to work with in 2009-10.

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by Steven Schweickert on Jun 29, 2011 6:16 PM CDT reply actions