Polling place
With steve greenberg
If Chicago has a star among its head coaches in the four major professional leagues, it’s Cubs manager David Ross. We’re using that term — “star” — loosely. The man is quite famous, that’s all. He caught. Then he danced. Then he grabbed a microphone, and now here we are.
But who’s the best among the guys who actually have experience (if not a whole lot of it) running teams? Ross has yet to manage a single game, so he must be set aside for now. Is the best we’ve got the Bears’ Matt Nagy, the Blackhawks’ Jeremy Colliton, the White Sox’ Rick Renteria or — no laughing, please — the Bulls’ Jim Boylen, who may soon be relieved of his post?
Indeed, we’re using that term — “best” — loosely, too.
For this week’s “Polling Place” — your home for Sun-Times sports polls on Twitter — we asked voters to weigh in on that question, even though Chicago just might be, compared with a lot of other places, a coaching wasteland.
As the votes show, there are, at this point, only two real candidates for “best” status. One is Nagy, who has had one great season and one pretty awful one. The other is Renteria, who, to his credit, has yet to embarrass himself in any egregious or unforgettable manner.
“Nagy took his team to the playoffs,” commented @JhayBaby61. “What have the other coaches done?”
“Ricky wins because he has never had a good team underachieve,” wrote @BobGhighi. “Until that happens, he is a good coach.”
On the other hand, some voters — make that non-voters — surely felt a lot like @UncleOtis23.
“No,” our man Otis wrote. “No, I don’t have to pick one. You can’t make me. No.”
Fair enough. And on to the polls: