Jerry Sloan:Snub of the Decades

Just wanted to throw my two cents in about how Jerry Sloan gets snubbed nearly every year for Coach of the Year. How ridiculous is it that in amassing 1,000 vitories (almost all with the Utah Jazz), there has not been one year where he was considered the best coach. All of the years in a row making the playoffs, some starting out bad and "righting the ship" to make the playoffs, others ending with the best record in the league, and lately doing things with his team that according to the experts a few years ago were going to be so far in the future. From not making the playoffs to the western conference finals the next year. It seems that there is always an excuse as to why he isn't deserving, yet every reason they have given has been used in a different year as to why someone else should be the coach of the year. Whether it be they had the best record, or the best turnaround from one year to the other, or turned it around during the season, all have been done by Sloan in years past but they change what they think is the deserving status for Coach of the Year in that season. Maybe only self promoters deserve to be Coach of the Year, and if that is the case let's just call it the "I am more important than the team I coach of the year." Sloan will never complain about this personal accolade and he really doesn't care; but you think that at least once in twenty years they could have gotten it right in at least a couple of the years when Sloan was truly the best, but maybe since he has kept the Jazz at such a high level for so long it doesn't count. Sloan: at least your appreciated in Utah, we love you here!