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...sport have always preferred to measure excellence in terms of eras. Eras have been in short supply recently at Stanford. So too have been coaching dynasties. There's certainly been nothing like the dynasty Bill Walsh ruled when he was the coach of San Francisco's professional team, the 49ers...
...January, at age 60, years after he stepped down as head coach of the 49ers, Walsh decided to seek the sublime again, leaving the television booth and a lucrative contract as an analyst of N.F.L. games for NBC. To the surprise of many, perhaps even himself, he took a pay cut to $150,000 a year (plus fringes) to become head coach at a school where athletes can conjugate a verb, carry on a conversation and occasionally play a little football. Walsh described the feeling upon his return home to a campus where he last coached 14 years...
...past two decades. "The day I found out that he was coming here, I was overwhelmed," says Stenstrom. "I was a big Joe Montana fan, and now I was going to be coached by Joe Montana's coach." One problem. Walsh was unable to bring Jerry Rice from the 49ers to catch passes. Walsh will be scouring the nation's high schools for a Rice catch-alike...
MANAGEMENT needs to respond by making the difficult decision to release stars who are past their prime should they refuse to accept a backup role. For example, the San Francisco 49ers should dump Joe Montana before the beginning of the season and put the job up for grabs between Steve Bono and Steve Young. Montana, like Bird, may lead the team to one more incredible season if he can stay healthy. But he has already taken so much pounding that one good shot from a Charles Mann or Reggie White could put him on the shelf for good...
There was no haggling over salary, Walsh said, because it is far less than he could have made with the 49ers or at NBC. Walsh will reportedly make $350,000 a year...