Are Kroenke and Demoff capable of making a good decision on a HC?Demoff, depending on how involved he was with the Fisher hire has maybe or maybe not done this once.
EDIT: I was just informed that Demoff was quite involved in the Spagnuolo hiring as well as the Fisher hiring. I assumed he was simply a minor part of the process.Some history on Kroenke is below. Feel free to check me though just in case, this dates to 2000 which I believe is when he took over the Avalanche and Nuggets. I'm assuming that the HC's departures were firings. For all I know one may have left for some other reason but I have heard nothing about that.
Kroenke has hired 6 HC's for his NHL team, and had 1 interim guy. He fired the guy who came with the team 1.5 seasons from buying it and winning a title that year. He had an interim guy for the last half of that year that became HC the next year and was fired. He hired another guy and fired him after 3 seasons. He then hired the guy that was the interim that he fired after one year. He then fired him again after one year. The next two hires went 4 years and 3 years and he has a guy who is in his 2nd year.
He's hired 5 HC's for his NBA team and had 4 interim guys, one of whom was George Karl who was the most successful coach the Nuggets have had and the longest tenured HC of any team Kroenke owns in his American portfolio at 8 years on the job. He's replaced HC's after 2.5 years twice, 1.5 years once and replaced the HC that came with the team when he bought it 1.5 years after becoming owner. The current guy is in his second season.
He's hired 1 for the Rams. Who knows how many guys who coaches the Rams he signed off on or was in favor of hiring. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt and say none.
(for our sake as fans lets hope that was the case!!!)Draw your own conclusions and feel free to add anything to this. Maybe if there are any Nuggets or Avs fans that can add insight as to what happened in these cases. I know we have one Avs fan that weighed in but I cannot recall who it was right now.
Towards that effort I will add this. He fired Karl because of the series of first round playoff departures even though in the middle of that string he did get to the Western Conference Finals only to lose to the Lakers. Karl, for those not familiar with the NBA or him, is a "builder" type of HC. He's the guy that gets hired when a team is struggling and you want to build it back up. Think of him as the Marty Schottenheimer of the NBA. Karl has been coaching since the mid 80's for 6 different teams.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/13/2016 12:41PM by LesBaker.
