Raetus

I agree with this completely. Notable PI with high level contacts is the only way to do actual background checks. Even the FBI fingerprint check misses things all the time due to the level at which it is processed.

There's a silly amount of paperwork that go into some of these negotiations. They could have signed a letter of intent, which would have a caveat of not constituting a legally binding agreement. Dude you gotta stop with the legal analysis. Almost everything you have said in your last few posts has been flat incorrect if not incomplete. Please feel free to enlighten me on what was wrong with that one single sentence. Do the letters of intent that you typically run into serve as legally binding agreements? They don't in my field. Regardless, as I said, if he wants to sue, then he'll more than be able to sue. At that point, it's just up to who has the better legal team and a judge.

There's a silly amount of paperwork that go into some of these negotiations. They could have signed a letter of intent, which would have a caveat of not constituting a legally binding agreement. [Edit] Either way, if it was signed by someone from USF, the Times should be able to get a hold of it with a public records request, so we should get some answers eventually.

The search firm got $60,000 to hand USF 1 - 3 names. Background checks on those 1 - 3 names should have been done before handing them to USF. No exceptions. In my mind this search firm screwed USF. But shame on USF for not insisting on the background checks. When you're dealing with a hire of this level, there are different levels of background checks that you employ and some of them take far longer than a day or two. An FBI check takes far longer to return results than a day and other more invasive ones can take even longer. Without knowing the types of checks employed, what they're looking for and what they found that caused the trip up, it's just speculation on all of our parts as to whether or not the background delay was justified.

This was reported far before an agreement was ever signed.

Also, I place the blame on the media and leakers on this one -- not the search firm. Ever since the advent of social media, the news media is so afraid of being out scooped by Twitter yahoos that they have done a less than great job in the due diligence category. The laws on the book that provide defenses for the media from defamation were made during a time where the media still gave a hoot about integrity and had the staff to actually do their jobs. Now, TMZ has more resources and fact checkers than a company like Newsweek. Time to revisit those protections in my opinion.

If USF was faced to cancel a contract because they were not able to comply through no fault of their own, they would have a defense to breach of contract based on impossibility, which would allow them to rescind the contract without recourse. So if whatever they found was so egregious that it would prevent them from hiring him in this capacity, they would be fine. If not, he might have a valid argument. Either way, you can sue anyone for anything regardless of right or wrong. This is, of course, barring any actual legal language that makes the agreement contingent on the results of a background check which if Best Buy has figured out for employment contracts, you'd have to hope the big wig search firm would have been tipped off to the existence of this caveat at some point.

Money well spent.

Fantastic read.

Wait. I just opened a fortune cookie. It says "Your love light shines on another." Better make that 02:14 GMT on Wednesday March 26th -- just to be safe.

I completely agree -- I've revised my timeline to account for new information from my horoscope and Ouija board: anything later than Wednesday March 26th at 03:51 GMT and Harlan should be fired.

Since we're setting completely arbitrary and baseless deadlines, anything later than Thursday March 27th at 15:37 EST is completely unacceptable.

If we're interested, I hope we act quickly before Manhattan does.

Our soccer team isn't too shabby to boot.

Love it. I've never been to a spring game, but I do love me some Corbett Stadium. Seems like it's time to drag the girlfriend out to a game.

Saw it was the Times -- stopped caring. Their new business model for the online paper is so woefully out of touch that I can't even pretend like they may not be aware of the fact; it's a move that screams of such desperation, it's almost embarrassing. When combined with the fact that it's so easily defeated by disabling Java, using an anonymous/cloaked/private browser, or simply removing the overlay using tools built-in to almost every major modern browser, it's almost as if they're hoping to fail. If you're going to try to lockbox your content, at least hire someone with a high school diploma to handle your IT work.

I liked CSH, but the job wasn't getting done and there's definitely been some coach-player issues. If Harlan did have any significant part in this decision, then I like the call even more as it shows some gall -- not to say that Heath's fate wasn't already decided.

I'd watch this.

You're missing the point. I am hungry Chipotle > Sideberns

That's because Bullcast is awful.

Well, he definitely seems comfortable in front of a crowd. No idea how he'll do because I'm not a seer, but I'm looking forward to him giving it a shot. I hope he does indeed have the gall to come in and make some bold choices. For good or bad, I think stagnation and trepidation will get us no where in this bizarro sports environment. I think it's time to take a few chances and stretch a few budgets.

That's some impressive photoshop work.

If we end up with a Schiano Rutgers guy as AD, I don't think I'll be able to tolerate that.

I'd have to go to Head-fi.org and see what the consensus is on them. I've got a dozen different headphones from several different makers including Sennheiser. They probably are for the Beats crowd, just by looking at them. My favorites are the Sony MR-1, Ultrasone HFI-780 and on the low end, the new Onkyo ES-FC300. Ultrasone has always done me well in the studio regardless of genre. They're also really easy to work with when it comes to replacing parts. If I had any complaints about them, it'd be the headband after a few years, but that's really only a problem in an environment where multiple players are using them. If it's just one person using them for referencing, then they're pretty hard to beat.