nerdmann
8 years ago

Roger Sessions, assistant football coach, track coach, JV basketball coach:Ted ran the high hurdles. Within the last few years, I was looking through some old files, and Ted and (former Chicago Bears coach) Lovie Smith were in the same heat in hurdles one time in one of our home meets. Lovie went to Big Sandy, which is not too far away. I believe Ted beat Lovie. Neither one of them was a great high hurdler, but they were fairly good.

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Danny Harp, football and track teammate: During track season our coach told us to sit down and take a rest. We got to talking about what we wanted to do when we grew up. When it came to Ted, he said, 'When I grow up I'm going to be the general manager of the Green Bay Packers or the New York Yankees.' That's exactly what he said. We all laughed, and he looked at us like, 'I'm not kidding.'

Thompson does not recall a specific conversation with Harp about the Packers but acknowledges it could be true. He made a similar statement when Bob Harlan hired him as general manager in 2005. "It's almost a dream-come-true-type job," he said at the time. "You think about, when you're a young kid, some of the things you'd like to do when you grow up and you think maybe manager of the New York Yankees or maybe the general manager of the Green Bay Packers. So it's a thrill, it's an honor."


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yooperfan
8 years ago
Not a great high hurdler, not a great GM.
He is just one of those so, so kinda of guys.
macbob
8 years ago

Not a great high hurdler, not a great GM.
He is just one of those so, so kinda of guys.

Originally Posted by: yooperfan 



I wouldn't call him great, but he's definitely better than "so, so". Ted's gotten us the players to win at least one more Super Bowl than we did.

Ted inherited a franchise from Mike Sherman that was being run into the ground. Sherman was doing stuff like trading up in the 3rd round to take a punter. A punter who couldn't even beat out the camp leg that year. So we carried two punters on the 53 man roster so Sherman could avoid cutting the player he traded up to draft.

As a consequence of boneheaded decisions such as that, our roster was OK as long as our starters did not get injured, but we were lacking depth at most positions due to the draft picks we had traded away. Ted was the opposite, and it was desperately needed. Ted stockpiled draft picks and built depth through quantity of picks.

isocleas2
8 years ago

Not a great high hurdler, not a great GM.
He is just one of those so, so kinda of guys.

Originally Posted by: yooperfan 



I wish we could dislike posts here.

Not a great GM in your opinion, when the experts are asked who they like his name is usually in the conversation. Then again they use crazy things like statistics and analysis to make up their opinions instead of cold hard gut feelings.
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