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I can agree with this part, as it breaks everything it touches

If something isn’t instantly gratifying it shouldn’t be a path worth taking, why learn to eat cilantro if it makes you vomit if there are plenty of other foods that aren’t vomit inducing? You no more have to forego good food in order to make gross food more palatable than you do have to learn to embrace losing in order to believe taking a underachieving 4 win team to 6 wins in three years is an achievement. The majority of people that take this long path to “rebuilding” end up fired and it’s for good reason and it’s actually not completely unheard of to do better than the person you replaced after they got fired.

That’s because you are thinking of the 1st definition and not the 2nd...

You know that I’m rather whimsical and more than likely will change my mind while trying to watch the Temple game, right? (Hopefully we look more like a team that has had a single practice or even seen a football before and I will not have to face the public shaming that comes with a pivoting as it clearly is horribly upsetting to me).

I’m over this season, it is what it is and hopefully we at least see things that can point to winning at some point but claiming that if all goes swimmingly we can maybe get back to where we should have been last year in three years is an absurd position that cannot be tolerated.

What if there are more examples? Would they all be because of unique situations? And if so why do we not aim to make our situation more unique instead of the path that typically leads to more terming than turnaround? If the whole team needs to be your players just to get back to where the team should have been when you got here the only thing you are building to is a bad path that’s ceiling is mediocrity. Positive change is possible day one in any situation and the quicker you can implement it the faster the path to success. There is nothing that says year one you have to fail, year two you get back to where you started and year three you get to finally break even and year four having recruited every single person left on the roster you can finally demonstrate the reason you were hired. The entire “process” idea is a fairy tale people tell in order to feel better about sustained failure and it flys in the face of facts and reason.

You mean you have no interest in sharing in the losses and not sharing in the gains? How selfish!

I refuse to move past number two in honor of our one glorious week

Sounds like they want to do an ownership share, I could possibly be interested but if they just want to share in losses I’m going to have to ask then what’s my motivation? Altruism?

It’s going to be pretty unfortunate being eligible and not making a bowl game, I’m having Emerald Bowl flashbacks

We preach tolerance of different in opinions at the church of CJL, as ultimately everyone will find their way to the truth even if some take a longer journey.

I’m assuming because of optics, maintaining the relationship and the fact that there are people directly and indirectly under his charge that have no option but to be impacted and that decision would increase the impact on them and further sour what is I’m sure a less than ideal work environment.

Yes it says that they accepted them but legally they can’t be required to take less than their contract unless there was a triggered action in their contract. Salaried employees and hourly employees can be told every moment they work from this moment forward will be at whatever amount is unilaterally decided and their only option is to walk but when you have a contract you are getting paid the what was both agreed to for the period of time prescribed with the only outs being what is clearly defined with exact causes.

When you have no contract your employment and your pay is at will. When you have a contract my approach for someone I didn’t intend to do future business would be you want to renegotiate? Sounds great I would love to get more money. Oh you meant less? Ya that’s not happening pay me the agreed amount or my lawyer will begin exercising our breach clauses.

Wow that’s a big number by percentage especially when I doubt the contract covered a deduction in circumstances like these. I know people have pointed to other things as a sign of culture shift but it’s pretty easy to play lip service to the right platitudes and it’s a whole other thing to voluntarily come off of your wallet when you have a binding contract. Good on you CJS for being the change you want to see and not letting the entire budgetary axe fall on the non contracted employees as it so often does.

Given no extenuating circumstances I am always of the opinion that coaches put the players on the field that they believe put them in the best position to win (why would anyone not want to take their tenure just to spite the fans?). When a team is failing the backup QB is always the favorite up until they become the starter (see McCloud as the perfect example).

What part of what I have said on this thread is not reasonable?

Nothing lasts forever Jonesy even Cold November Rain

What about cold November Rain?

Oh, well in that case thank you for the effort

Why do you want their USF souls to perish?

Lucky for them I get quoted a lot so they still get to see the truth they are trying to run from and can still have a path towards enlightenment