Carroll Shelby same old story

[Historybuff]

in fact i follow no sports so sports fans can feel free to correct me but I think LA just signed a new coach who is going to get several million over the next three years. And that's because they think he knows how to pick good players , weed out the bad ones, etc. I have heard many celebrations of famous football and baseball coaches, and occasionally even dialogue coaches for actors. So if you look at it that way-- Shelby as a great "coach" picking many of the right players way back when, like keeping Phil Remington on when he took over the Scarab facility (or hiring Ken Miles when he was viewed by many as a cranky malcontent)--you can see he was indisputedly the leader of the band. Conversely, I don't see any sports teams of today rehiring the same coach that took them to the Super Bowl or World Series 40-plus years ago like Ford rehired Shelby so he deserves recognition that Ford , et al still think the old codger has something to contribute.

You can see what a tough job being the coach is when you analyze each of his business ventures one by one and see the fate of those where he wasn't paying attention (like in the Series 1 Olds powered car) the ball dropped big time because the players on the field couldn't carry on well without him (he was in the hospital during much of that venture).But those where he was right on top of it, like LeMans with the GTs in '66, he brought the ball across the finish line

And as you youngins get older, and began to feel marginalized, you will admire anybody over 60 who still commands authority in the business world...