So, have you ever showed up at work drunk? Probably not, but evidently some people do even when they have high profile jobs. USC football coach Steve Sarkisian was fired this week after he allegedly showed up at a team meeting intoxicated, then reports that he was actually drunk while coaching on the sidelines earlier this year when USC played Arizona State. This is interesting because he was fired; this almost never happens in college sports, look how long it took UNM to get rid of Mike Locksley. Usually, the coach will decide to resign and give reasons like I want to spend more time with my family, yeah right. A settlement is paid out and everyone goes on their merry way. But in the Sarkisian situation I am sure they had him dead to rites. That is the only way that could have fired him in today’s legal climate. But I would not hold your breath on the lawsuit, as soon as Sarkisian drys out at a Malibu rehab center, and realizes no other program will ever make the mistake of hiring him again, I am sure a lawsuit will be filed. Another interesting footnote is that after this story broke former coworkers, coaches, players and friends came out of the woodwork with stories of how hard a partier this football coach was at USC and his previous gig at Washington, there was even documentation, receipts from bars and restaurants and plenty of eye witness stories. But obviously the Sarkisian drinking problem was one that USC and AD Pat Hayden did not want to address until it was almost too late.
