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my favorite part of his column...
Posted on: August 20, 2016 at 15:05:08 CT
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"Nothing about this investigation added up. If it included 'allegations of a severe gravity', as Rhoades said in a radio interview in May, then why was Earleywine not suspended until its resolution? And why would the AD make that statement unless he planned to fire the coach? He might as well have said, 'parents, send your daughters elsewhere'."
My point exactly, although I mostly disagree with Walljaspers conclusion that there should have been some kind of press conference and a 'broader discussion about why the investigation happened and why EE was retained'. He admits, candidly, that since he is basically in the entertainment business as the director of sports at the Tribune, he feels robbed of a highly entertaining spectacle of a press conference.
I wish Walljasper and the rest of the local media hadn't stayed mostly silent on the sidelines as this 'investigation that didn't add up' was unfolding. I wish they had pressed Mack and the other AD staffers harder in public about the way the girls were bullied and threatened during their 'interviews', and what the implications of that were. I wish they had written publically and called out Mack for repeatedly violating university policy prohibiting him from commenting on any details at all about a review of an employee of theirs, due to privacy and personnel laws and regulations. But I'm sure said local media was afraid of cutting off the access that they needed to do their jobs. It was a bad choice IMO.
Mack was prohibited from commenting about anything regarding the investigation, yet he repeatedly made comments to the media with the clear intent of damaging EE's reputation and prejudicing public opinion against him. He emphasized on multiple occasions just how very very very very serious the allegations were, how GD serious they were, what a 'severe gravity' the allegations were. He stated once that he made every effort to make sure the allegations reflected an ongoing pattern and were not just things said in the heat of the moment. At one point he 'clarified' that the allegations came from multiple sources, and were not just from bench players unhappy with playing time. 'That couldn't be further from the truth' he said. And he blatantly lied to the KC Star in an attempt to misrepresent and minimize the extent of support for EE from within the team, when he said he was glad EE was 'speaking to a very few people' when he called for an end to the 'protest', which was in fact communicated by the Unity Council of 5 elected players who represent the majority view of the team. And not one time during this debacle did Mack say one thing in support of EE, when even scumbags like Briles at Baylor got comments of general support from his AD.
Walljasper is correct that Mack wanted to fire EE. And that his public statements, in violation of university policy, had the effect of telling parents to not send their kids here to play for a guy with such GD very very very serious allegations against him.
I just wish Joe would have said something about it before now, when it's all said and done.
And he is dead wrong about the approach Mizzou took in announcing EEs retention. It was the right thing to do. Entertainment aside.
Edited by bluetiger_ at 15:18:47 on 08/20/16
My point exactly, although I mostly disagree with Walljaspers conclusion that there should have been some kind of press conference and a 'broader discussion about why the investigation happened and why EE was retained'. He admits, candidly, that since he is basically in the entertainment business as the director of sports at the Tribune, he feels robbed of a highly entertaining spectacle of a press conference.
I wish Walljasper and the rest of the local media hadn't stayed mostly silent on the sidelines as this 'investigation that didn't add up' was unfolding. I wish they had pressed Mack and the other AD staffers harder in public about the way the girls were bullied and threatened during their 'interviews', and what the implications of that were. I wish they had written publically and called out Mack for repeatedly violating university policy prohibiting him from commenting on any details at all about a review of an employee of theirs, due to privacy and personnel laws and regulations. But I'm sure said local media was afraid of cutting off the access that they needed to do their jobs. It was a bad choice IMO.
Mack was prohibited from commenting about anything regarding the investigation, yet he repeatedly made comments to the media with the clear intent of damaging EE's reputation and prejudicing public opinion against him. He emphasized on multiple occasions just how very very very very serious the allegations were, how GD serious they were, what a 'severe gravity' the allegations were. He stated once that he made every effort to make sure the allegations reflected an ongoing pattern and were not just things said in the heat of the moment. At one point he 'clarified' that the allegations came from multiple sources, and were not just from bench players unhappy with playing time. 'That couldn't be further from the truth' he said. And he blatantly lied to the KC Star in an attempt to misrepresent and minimize the extent of support for EE from within the team, when he said he was glad EE was 'speaking to a very few people' when he called for an end to the 'protest', which was in fact communicated by the Unity Council of 5 elected players who represent the majority view of the team. And not one time during this debacle did Mack say one thing in support of EE, when even scumbags like Briles at Baylor got comments of general support from his AD.
Walljasper is correct that Mack wanted to fire EE. And that his public statements, in violation of university policy, had the effect of telling parents to not send their kids here to play for a guy with such GD very very very serious allegations against him.
I just wish Joe would have said something about it before now, when it's all said and done.
And he is dead wrong about the approach Mizzou took in announcing EEs retention. It was the right thing to do. Entertainment aside.
Edited by bluetiger_ at 15:18:47 on 08/20/16
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my favorite part of his column... - bluetiger_ MU - 8/20 15:05:08