Holding only 40% of the ball during Saturday's loss, Toronto were left in a position to be run into the ground, a situation that's become commonplace under it second-year boss.
Perhaps most important is manager Dave Martinez learning from his rookie season, when he looked like a first-year boss far too often.
So third-year boss Helton followed up seasons of 10 and 11 wins with one clunker, and he's won a Rose Bowl and a Pac-12 championship, and with uncommon decency he steadied a program that had been rattled with Lane Kiffin and Steve Sarkisian.
As Covisint enters its second year with no boss, it still looks great-on paper.
During his first year as boss, in 1996, Berger wrote down assorted assets, eliminated product lines and trimmed the employee rolls.
He announced plans to halt cathode-ray set production altogether, a painful choice for Japan's first television maker, and in his first year as boss Sharp released its first LCD TV, with a 14-inch screen, that sold for $4,200.
In just his second year as the Steelers' boss — and his first time as a head coach — Tomlin has taken a group of veterans, won them over and put his stamp on this team.
The 37-year-old's new deal is to be player/manager for one more year, then a second year as just Racecourse boss.
With the work of owner Jeanie Buss and the Lakers' front office nearly complete, the pressure is now on their third-year bench boss to finish the job.
Pearson's second reign as Foxes boss moved into its second year on 15 November and he is happy with what he has achieved in that time.
The situation finally exploded at the end of the first year when his boss gave him a poor performance evaluation for not being involved enough in details and for delegating too much to his subordinates.
