Seriously? Doug Collins

By: Jerome Cusson

The Boston Celtics are dealing with the pesky Detroit Pistons in a tough series. The Los Angeles Lakers are on the path to yet another championship. Now Doug Collins could become the Chicago Bulls head coach within the next couple days. We’re apparently turning back the clock to the 1980s now. All we need is CBS to start doing games again.

Collins was fired some 19 years ago because he couldn’t take the Bulls from Point B to Point C. A team that was on the brink of the championship just couldn’t seem to defeat the “Bad Boy” Detroit Pistons. Collins was a very emotional coach at that time, and his course has followed him through two other stops in Washington and Detroit. Now at 56 and a grandfather, John Paxson and Jerry Reinsdorf think he’s the man to bring the Bulls back to glory.

No doubt Collins is a brilliant basketball mind. I consider him to be a great analyst for TNT, but I cannot understand how in the blue hell anyone considers this to be a good idea. He’s had three short coaching stints, which have all ended in burn-out. There are so many young assistant coaches out there. Avery Johnson is out there. Why are the Bulls going for yet another rehash?

The White Sox showed a lot of moxy when they hired Ozzie Guillen, even though he was highly unproven. They could have  gone with someone like Cito Gaston, but they went with a guy who had fresh ideas and had brought the first World Series to Chicago since 1917. Now the Bulls are going back to the well, and they’ve taken one giant stop toward becoming irrelevant.

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Jerome Cusson is a proud graduate of Columbia College Chicago. Currently, he is a freelance writer and a contributer to such websites as The Cool Kids' Table and giveawaytheending.com. Check out his NSR blog as well.

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