Stand back. cboy is gonna blow! Mike Nolan stays as 49ers coach.

[El Supremo]

Nolan gives up control, keeps coaching job
By Michael Silver, Yahoo! Sports
January 1, 2008

Mike Nolan will keep his job as the coach of the San Francisco 49ers but will relinquish final say over personnel decisions, Yahoo! Sports has learned.

After two days of deliberation, 49ers owners John and Denise DeBartolo York decided Tuesday to retain Nolan, who has two years left on the five-year contract he signed before the 2005 season. His 16-32 record over three seasons, including a 5-11 mark in '07, put his job in jeopardy, and he will likely make changes to his coaching staff.

Nolan, who has also been the 49ers' de facto general manager since joining the franchise, agreed to give up front-office control as a condition of his return. The franchise will hire a general manager to assume those duties, and the leading contender is believed to be current vice president of player personnel Scot McCloughan.

It was Nolan who hired McCloughan in February of '05, largely because he believed the former Seattle Seahawks scouting director would function well in a structure in which the head coach had final authority. Now it is likely their roles will be reversed....

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl

[Auggie]

1. I'll blow first: BIG EFFIN MISTAKE

The Yorks should have hired a real football guy as GM and let him decide what to with with Nolan and McCloughan. This arrangement can only foster bad-feelings and clashing of egos.

John York is an idiot and has no business owning a football team.

Columnist Ray Ratto of the S.F. Chronicle from today, 1-2-08 (speaking to York):

YOU STINK AT THIS STUFF! YOU ALWAYS HAVE, AND YOU ALWAYS WILL! EVERY TIME YOU THINK YOU KNOW HOW TO DO THIS, YOU WEAKEN THE NATION! YOU HAD BILL WALSH AND THOUGHT YOU KNEW MORE THAN HE DID! YOU HAD JOHN MCVAY'S CONTACTS WITHIN THE LEAGUE AND REPLACED HIM WITH A SODA MACHINE! YOU CAN'T DO THIS! YOU'RE NOT EVEN REMOTELY EQUIPPED HERE, SO FIND SOMEONE WHO IS AND GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY! STOP WASTING YOUR TIME ON THE COACH, AND FIND SOMEONE WHO CAN MAKE AN ACTUAL EDUCATED JUDGMENT ABOUT HIM! IF YOU DON'T FIND SOMEONE TO RUN YOUR FRANCHISE, SOMEONE WHO PAYS ATTENTION MORE AND LIKES BEING IN THE OFFICE MORE THAN TERRY DONAHUE, YOU WILL NEVER GET THIS RIGHT! NEVER! EVER! EVER!

[TZ]

2. LMAO!

Wow, I thought Snyder was loathed...but even at the worst here (right after the Buffalo game) there was NOTHING like that in the papers....:rofl:
That being said I do feel bad for Niners fan..at least our asshole owner occasionally gets things right....

[cboy4]

3. The 49ers are the WORST operated NFL franchise in

sports.

These York people don't have a clue what they're doing.

They have turned one of the most storied sports franchises into a joke.

And I demand that they remove the five Lombardi trophies they have on display at 49er headquarters and ship them to the owner who helped win them.

This is the fucking person who is running the team:



Jed York, the clueless son of the clueless owners.

He's like 25 and can barely remember the Niners 5th Super Bowl win.

I'm starting to hyperventilate.

:argh: :argh: :argh: :argh: