text: Pats' Pioli Executive Of Year - tribunedigital-thecourant
  March 24, 2005|By ALAN GREENBERG
  FOXBORO, Mass. — The Sporting News has named Patriots vice president of player personnel Scott Pioli its executive of the year. Again.
  Pioli, who turns 40 next week and is a former Central Connecticut football player, becomes the third person to win the award in back-to-back years. When he won it last season, he was the award's youngest recipient.
  Pioli, whom coach Bill Belichick pried away from the Jets -- Pioli is married to Bill Parcells' daughter, Dallas -- received 19 of 55 votes cast by NFL owners, general managers, personnel directors and other front office personnel. Chargers general manager A.J. Smith (nine votes) finished second.
  Pioli grew up in Washingtonville, N.Y., over the hill from West Point.
  After leaving Central, where he was a three-time Division II All-New England selection at defensive tackle, he served as a graduate assistant at Syracuse and as an assistant coach at Murray (Ky.) State. His NFL career began in 1992, when Belichick hired him as a Browns personnel assistant.