UAlbany's Bob Ford: better or worse than Toronto's Mayor Rob Ford?

"Ford has won 256 varsity games at UAlbany, the most of any active Division I coach. He served as president of the American Football Coaches Association, been inducted into multiple Halls of Fame and been named Northeast Conference Coach of the Year four times. He will coach his final game at the University on a field that already bares his name. And to think it may have never happened."

Santillo, Andrew. "Final home game for UAlbany's Bob Ford." The Saratogian. November 15, 2013. http://www.saratogian.com/sports/20131115/final-home-game-for-ualbanys-bob-ford

If only it never happened! Such a pleasant thought! It's a pity that instead that Joe Paterno-lover Bob Ford came to plague UAlbany and help drag it down in emulation of Penn State.

"What impact do you think Division I athletics will have on the University's relationship with the community? A community as a whole becomes identified with a college or a university that exists within its boundaries. Penn State, as an example, has a community that identifies with that institution. So I think that the City of Albany will eventually identify with the University at Albany, and our intercollegiate athletics program will probably be a source of pride for the city."

“Bob Ford on Division I: Community and Campus Pride.” Albany Magazine. http://www.albany.edu/pr/fordnew.html

"Albany has a reputation for grooming young coaches. How do you use your coaching staff? I heard Joe Paterno say, ‘You hire good people, give them a job to do, and don’t look over their shoulders all the time.’ I’d say that’s the way I approach my staff."

Coaching Management, 8.4, May 2000, http://www.momentummedia.com/articles/cm/cm0804/qaford.htm

"'I'll miss a good friend and I think we'll all miss a coaching legend,' said Bob Ford, UAlbany's Head Football Coach. […] Ford was a friend of Paterno's, and remembers the coach's life fondly. [...] 'he himself did nothing wrong, but as he said, he wished he did more,' said Ford."

Cruz, Megan. "Locals mourn Paterno." YNN. January 22, 2012. http://saratoga-north.ynn.com/content/your_news/571083/locals-mourn-paterno/

Bob Ford was more of a cancer to UAlbany than Rob Ford can possibly ever be to Toronto. Rob Ford's a blip in time and nobody would ever dare name any government property in his honor.