(12-11-2019, 02:26 PM)Jags02 Wrote:

(12-11-2019, 11:08 AM)Mikey Wrote: I voted blank #2 because the options presented didn't quite fit.

Tom must go. There is a rift between him and everyone else below him, and until that is fixed, we will have little success bringing in GM, coaches, or players that do not want to be micromanaged.

If Tom were to personally replace the Jags brass underneath him, suddenly all those rifts are gone. Part of the "rift" is that Khan had a GM and HC, etc, in place already and then brought TC in. That rarely sits well. It might be different with TC in charge of his own guys.

But if Tom were hired to manage the day-to-day operations in Shad's absence, that would include working with the team Shad had already put together. You're saying that undermining those people and helping them fail their way out of town is sitting well with Shad? Or that this was the intent of him bringing Tom in, without letting him purge the staff that conflicts with his (or Shad's) vision?

At this point, I think he's poison. You either are stuck with letting him run the entire show, as you propose, or you are going to be picking from a very limited pool of yes-men candidates that are willing to hold a title but relinquish all their responsibility to a micromanager. Nobody is going to be seeking out our vacancies if they know that they are not going to have liberty to take measures as they see fit to turn things around.

The real question is whether Shad sees Tom as poison, or cure.

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