That said, most of the hoopla was driven by false media reporting. We just saw Ross apologize publicly, but you’ll never see the same from the media.

Think about that before you start raising pitchforks.

Ross should have fired Sparano in the first place – under no circumstances should you retain the guy, regardless. He is not a “fall back” option.

what a lyin sack Ross is!

looks like we’ll have another losing season with Sparano

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That is True! H e did!

news rushes at the speed of the Internet, as Twitter and cell phones demand a constant feeding of information, as the need to be fast and need to be right in reporting are at greater odds than ever, what if the media got more wrong than the Dolphins this week?
Or, at times, 90% wrong?
I’m a hard facts type of guy. Show me proof, or don’t tell me at all. I know, not everyone is like that. And that’s ok, I suppose. However, it’s imperative that you do your research, and find out the truth of the matter in anything you want to believe. It’s ok to have “faith”, yes. It’s not ok to blindly ASSume something is right and correct and real.
“Dolphins NEVER offered Harbaugh a contract” and that is TRUE !

Give me a break.

@nnagi: Well said.

Ross clearly contradicts himself:
“No time have I contacted, spoken with any potential head coach”

“this is probably the first time I ever interviewed [a head coaching candidate] and I’m not really familiar with going through this process”

Harbaugh clearly did not seek out the opinion of an NFL owner, whom he didn’t know”, for his advice on what he should do at Stanford. Ross clearly acted like a young man who was fishing for a better girlfriend while staying with his current one “just in case”. He was poorly advised and should have known to conduct himself better in the first place, and when the news broke -whiche he HAD to know it could -he should have simply stepped up and said “YES, I’m unhappy with my current coach and looking to do better”.

Who would have blamed him?

Not saying at all that he should have hired Harbaugh, but the irony is that he is now committed for another year to a coach whom he was not happy with in the first place, and looks like a first class buffoon publicly, people wondering how a guy this stupid ever became that successful!

Stop spending your time at the beach with your head in the sand !

There is also a bridge in Brooklyn for sale.

Go Fish

but this stuff happens. lets not discount that if the owner does this kind of thing repeatedly, it will affect the quality of the people he can hire and what he has to pay them.

if i was ireland, i would push the envelope and see if i could get fired with pay. ross already has peterson inhouse doing whatever. that isnt a non-toxic situation.

2. The feeding frenzy that is the news media, including the sports news media, doesn’t bother with getting the facts right. Never has, never will. The focus is on getting the story out FIRST. We need someone calling out these people who fabricate stories in the name of getting info out first. And then they need to get fired – unless, of course, they are in the business of publishing a Rumor Mill, which by its very name isn’t expected to be a paragon of integrity.

3. Sparano, or Tom Cable or Wade Phillips in past years – would not put up with this if they had any balls, or any options. When you get the news that your employer disrespects you, it’s time to move on. The fact that those coaches stayed in place means they value their continuation in their current position more than they value their own sense of self-worth.

3. I’m with @fin72.

hey if you pour salt in your water it will fizzle

have this guy and mcdaniels ever worked together?

All of this said, what surrounded the Dolphins last week was just a bunch of overblown noise, bad PR but nothing else. Sports is soap opera for males, so As Sparano Turns was just something messy that gave the appearance that the people in charge don’t know what they are doing. But perception is not reality, not for the discerning. Reality is reality. And the reality is that Ross was just doing his job by trying to upgrade his football team.

Any fan who sympathizes with this loser (Sparano) is the problem, not Ross. Ross might have had a chance at a better coach, but not unless he took the opportunity to do what he did.

Good news is…after next season (2011 or 2012), he will be looking for a HC again, and he will have experience. He probably needs to get a new GM (one that doesnt pick Pat Whites and Pat Turners) and let that GM head up the coaching search.

The Bad news for Ross is…after the Fins lose the first two home games, even the moronic Fins fans are going to realize nothing has changed or been upgraded with the Fins and the fans are going to stop going to the games, costing him many more millions of dollars.

I have no sympathy for a billionarie losing a few million dollars. I also dont have sympathy for a horrible coach or fans who support horrible coaches.

Somehow, this man has done exactly that.