Event Date: September 16th, 1983
Event Description: Shively Axed
Source: United Press International
Doug Shively, a last-minute selection to coach the Arizona Wranglers in their inaugural U.S. Football League season, was fired Sunday, team officials said.
Gerry Coyle, a senior vice president of Interland Corp., the team's parent company, and the spokesman for owner Jim Joseph, said Shively was dismissed as a first step in a reorganization.
“In order to produce a winning product on the field, we felt it was necessary to reorganize the football operation,” Coyle said.
Shively, appearing at the same news conference, said he was not given a fair chance to produce a winning team, but declined to criticize Joseph.
“The man that owns the team has the right to hire and fire as he so chooses,” Shively said. “I'm a good football coach and, given the opportunity, I can put a winning team on the field.”
Story-(UPI)
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