09-16-2015, 07:13 PM
(09-16-2015, 04:15 PM)XenoMorph Wrote: but current regime has only been at it 4 years. a time frame in which many teams have failed to win a playoff game or even appear in one.
Mike Brown, Pete Brown, Katie Blackburn, and Troy Blackburn, which make the entirely of the teams administration department, have all been here over 20 years.
Random staff names like Eric Ball, Bob Beddinghuas, and Jack Brennan have decade + long tenures with the team. Even the beat writer, Geoff Hobson, has been covering the team for over 20 years. Dave Lapham, the team's color analyst, was drafted by the team over 40 years ago, and has been broadcasting games for almost another 30.
Our current director of player personnel, Duke Tobin, has been employed here for 16 years. Both his father and John Cooper, who are scouts, have been here well over a decade. Greg Seamon, another scout, has been here for 13 years.
Let's look at the coaching staff:
Marvin Lewis - Head Coach - 13 years.
Paul Alexander - OL Coach/Asst Head Coach -22 years.
Jay Hayes - DL Coach - 13 years
Jon Hayes - TE Coach - 13 years
Paul Gunther - DC - 11 years with team
Hue Jackson - OC - 7th year with team, started here in 2004
Chip Morton - Strength Coach - 13 years
Darrin Simmons - ST - 13 years
Ken Zampese - QB Coach - 13 years
So the Owner, the GM, the President, the Senior VP, the Executive VP, the Business Manager, the Director of Business Developement, the Managing Director, the head of Public Relations, the Director of Player Personnel, the director of Player Relations, the Head Coach, the Assistant Head Coach, and a whole slew of assistants coaches and scouts have been here over a decade. Got all that?
And that's just the names I know of when looking down the staff directory. Who knows how long some of the ticket department and security have been here. The average tenure of employee, outside of players, of this team is probably near or over 20 years.
From the top down you have long, rooted tenures upstatirs. The entire front office to be specific. The Head coach and much of his staff are approaching 15 years. How exactly has the "current regime" been here only four years?
