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Akinji07

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From what I am gathering with what rumors and speculation that I read last night:
  • Board meeting was scheduled for Monday afternoon.
  • Board meeting was scheduled for Monday morning at 11:30.
  • The 11:30 meeting wasn't a board meeting, it was a meeting with that athletic department employees to inform them of the changes.
  • The coach was treated poorly and forced to go directly to his car and leave the facility.
  • A large number of players are upset about how poorly GT treated the coach and treated them with how they handled the announcement.
I wasn't there and don't know what happened. They had a board meeting, I assume but I don't know what time it took place. I don't know if the athletic association employees had a meeting or what time that meeting was. I assume the players had a meeting, but I don't know. An institute person took over the athletic association, and escorting a fired employee from the building is exactly how it works in corporate and academia.

I don't see that much to really be upset about. I don't think the issue is that the university did anything really wrong. I would say if anyone did anything wrong, it was Ken for breaking the story before they had a chance to meet with the players. But I don't think that he was wrong either. It is just a fact of life today that you can't control information.
Ken’s a journalist. If someone blabs to him he will report. The blabber is responsible for that mess. Another reason why we need to clean the entire athletic department.
 

andrew

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Ken’s a journalist. If someone blabs to him he will report. The blabber is responsible for that mess. Another reason why we need to clean the entire athletic department.
I'm not sure there's any way to fire both the AD and the HC without it leaking.

I kind of doubt that Cabrera can do that completely unilaterally, and it would almost certainly involve multiple people from the school side since there's no one above the AD on the athletic side, so just cleaning out the athletic department probably wouldn't fix it (though maybe we should do it anyway.)
 

QuadF

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From what I am gathering with what rumors and speculation that I read last night:
  • Board meeting was scheduled for Monday afternoon.
  • Board meeting was scheduled for Monday morning at 11:30.
  • The 11:30 meeting wasn't a board meeting, it was a meeting with that athletic department employees to inform them of the changes.
  • The coach was treated poorly and forced to go directly to his car and leave the facility.
  • A large number of players are upset about how poorly GT treated the coach and treated them with how they handled the announcement.
I wasn't there and don't know what happened. They had a board meeting, I assume but I don't know what time it took place. I don't know if the athletic association employees had a meeting or what time that meeting was. I assume the players had a meeting, but I don't know. An institute person took over the athletic association, and escorting a fired employee from the building is exactly how it works in corporate and academia.

I don't see that much to really be upset about. I don't think the issue is that the university did anything really wrong. I would say if anyone did anything wrong, it was Ken for breaking the story before they had a chance to meet with the players. But I don't think that he was wrong either. It is just a fact of life today that you can't control information.
It's normal to be upset at the change and to be frustrated. It's a normal part of the process, but everyone is doing it in public instead of in private. It's a hard lesson on how business works, what accountability feels like, and how not to compound the pain of a correction.
 

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From what I am gathering with what rumors and speculation that I read last night:
  • Board meeting was scheduled for Monday afternoon.
  • Board meeting was scheduled for Monday morning at 11:30.
  • The 11:30 meeting wasn't a board meeting, it was a meeting with that athletic department employees to inform them of the changes.
  • The coach was treated poorly and forced to go directly to his car and leave the facility.
  • A large number of players are upset about how poorly GT treated the coach and treated them with how they handled the announcement.
The bullets in bold are true. None of the rest of it is.

Both Todd and Geoff were in their offices from yesterday morning until after Cabrera spoke with the employees and left when they chose to go. Yesterday was the off day for the team. Many chose to work out in the weight room and knew Geoff was in the building, but did not know he had been fired.
 

Liberty

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To be fair some of those were bullshit. Like Charlie Thomas getting ejected last game
You're gonna get screwed when your coach acts like a little bitch on the sideline. We get enough bad calls not being the favorite in most games, then we doubled down with a coach that was easy to disrespect.
 

GTYJ

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From what I am gathering with what rumors and speculation that I read last night:
  • Board meeting was scheduled for Monday afternoon.
  • Board meeting was scheduled for Monday morning at 11:30.
  • The 11:30 meeting wasn't a board meeting, it was a meeting with that athletic department employees to inform them of the changes.
  • The coach was treated poorly and forced to go directly to his car and leave the facility.
  • A large number of players are upset about how poorly GT treated the coach and treated them with how they handled the announcement.
I wasn't there and don't know what happened. They had a board meeting, I assume but I don't know what time it took place. I don't know if the athletic association employees had a meeting or what time that meeting was. I assume the players had a meeting, but I don't know. An institute person took over the athletic association, and escorting a fired employee from the building is exactly how it works in corporate and academia.

I don't see that much to really be upset about. I don't think the issue is that the university did anything really wrong. I would say if anyone did anything wrong, it was Ken for breaking the story before they had a chance to meet with the players. But I don't think that he was wrong either. It is just a fact of life today that you can't control information.
The large number of players that were upset can just go ahead and quit the team. See ya. Don't care.
 

techronnie

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Any player who criticized the moves in social media should be off the team. The man was 10-28 as their coach. What do they expec!
 

Jacketzrus

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All y'all boomers complaining about kids these days complaining in public instead of private. I bet if the Internet/social media was around during your youth, you'd be venting to the world loudest of all.
 

justafan

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I know the escorting terminated people from the building is standard procedure, but for a college football coach? Is that really necessary? I understand you don't want the fired person to do anything untoward but what's Collins gonna do. Seems heavyhanded and legalistic.
 

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I know the escorting terminated people from the building is standard procedure, but for a college football coach? Is that really necessary? I understand you don't want the fired person to do anything untoward but what's Collins gonna do. Seems heavyhanded and legalistic.
True but we don’t know how he was handling his firing. He could have been incessantly screaming about how he’s elite or operating at a high level for all we know.
 

midatlantech

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I know the escorting terminated people from the building is standard procedure, but for a college football coach? Is that really necessary? I understand you don't want the fired person to do anything untoward but what's Collins gonna do. Seems heavyhanded and legalistic.
Go back and read the last page again.
 
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