From: lavelle@aardvark.lerc.nasa.gov ()
Subject: Re: Roger Craig on George Seifert
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:45:25 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.182915.3730@weber.com> steve@weber.com (Steve Keshen) writes:
>In article <1992Dec21.225239.27876@Princeton.EDU> hariharn@roebling.Princeton.EDU (Ramesh Hariharan) writes:
>>In article <29710117@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM> garyr@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM (Gary Rosen) writes:
>>>>(walid al-sabah) /  9:43 am  Dec 18, 1992 /
>>>>From the L.A. Times of Thursday 12/17/92
>>>
>>>>	Overrated? Even though San Francisco  49er Coach George   Seifert
>>>>	has a 54-3 record, including a Super Bowl victory in 1990, former
>>>>	running back  Roger  Craig  isn't that impressed  with  Seifert's
>>>>	accomplishments.   "Look  at  him  with the talent he has," Craig
>>>>	told the  San Francisco Chronicle. "Anybody can step in and do  a
>>>>	good  job  in that system. It's not like he created  this big era
>>>>	of what they're [49ers] doing. Bill  Walsh did that a  long  time
>>>>	ago."
>>>
>>>Sure, it's no sweat to take over a championship team and continue the
>>>tradition.  I'm sure a lot of Packer fans can tell us about the
>>>tremendous success enjoyed by Phil Bengston, who took over for Lombardi.
>>>
>>>- Gary Rosen
>>
>>Ray Handley from Parcells.
>
>Well, maybe the difference was between great teams with great coaches and
>so-so teams with great coaches?  Anybody follow that?  What I mean to suggest
>is possibly the Packers weren't that good - just well motivated.  Same for
>the Giants.  Without looking at individual injuries and retirements it's
>really hard to compare these teams.
>
>San Fran. has a lot of talent because they pay for it.
>--

I think that it has a little bit more to do with it than that.
Bill Walsh did an incredible job of finding and developing talent.
Yeah, the Forty-Niners do pay well but they are the best.  Can you
name one player that was bought from another team?  It just does not
happen that much in football.  Their stars were found through the
draft.  And whats more, a lot of teams passed on their eventual
star players.  Montana taken in the third round.  Dwight Clark in the
tenth.  John Taylor i believe in the fourth.  Jerry Rice mid way through
the first after half the league passed on him and walsh traded up to
get just to get him.  Acquiring Steve Young even though Montana was
still in his prime and laying the foundation for the success they are
having right now.

I think that this is what set Walsh apart.  His ability to build the
team.  I give Seifert credit for doing a good job coaching but it
is still Walsh's machine that he is driving. Lombardi and parcells
may not have left great teams to their next coaches.  Walsh left
a team that he had built and was absolutely loaded with talent.

As far as salaries are concerned, the forty-niner salaries were
relatively low until they won their first of many Super Bowls
Does it not make sense that one of the best teams should
have the highest salaries

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