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I am sure you've seen the ESPN teasers for a show called Bound for Glory. The show hypes Dick Butkus and his return to coaching at a high school. There is yelling, kids playing and more in the teaser. It makes it sound like Butkus did a good job. Did he?

It turns out the team he was coaching, the Montour Spartans, dropped to 1-6. After their latest loss Butkus booked claiming that he fulfilled his part of the contract. His contract only ran for eight weeks and ESPN said it would be too costly to finish the season. I wonder if that would have been the case had the Montour Spartans been 6-1.

About the experience,  Montour senior linebacker Morgan Singletary said:

I understood most of the stuff he was saying. But at times, it was awkward the way he would yell at us. He wouldn't really talk to us at all during practice, then he'd come out and start yelling at us at the end. That was awkward.

Imaging that. I thought that Butkus would actually end up coaching the team, but there was a real head coach named Lou Cerro. He says:

Maybe this will bring some sanity back to the whole program. The kids know no one is here now but me and the rest of the coaches. They're not going to have to worry about television interview times or things like that.

The kids had a rough time. The least Butkus could have done was stick around and see the season through.