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Your comment added nothing to the thread, or enriched the community in any way. And yes, I downvoted. Respect the signal to noise ratio.
> I wonder how the Shane hatters will handle this.
Hating Shane is soooooo last season.
agree with bar1990. It's not a different job. It's just different management. That management can change the daily operations, the product, the way people execute, etc but they are still there to do the same role they were asked to perform before. Again, I don't mind Fuente's staff coming in got big raises, but that shouldn't have come at the expense of staff being asked to remain.
This doesn't mean that this cannot happen. I know managers that do that, but I wholeheartedly disagree. Unless it was a budget cut that was required for people to keep their jobs, which it wasn't, I don't see why they should be asked to take a cut to pay for others.
All that being said, as mentioned by others Wiles and Grey could have not accepted and gone elsewhere. Ultimately it's their choice. I just don't agree with that style of management with existing staff, but as I said I am not reading anything into beyond that as far as Coach Fuente is concerned.
I get what your going for, but I can't agree with any of these analogies. It's the same title, with the same employer, just new management.
Exactly. This was not a unilateral decision
Don't consider it a pay cut. Consider it a completely different job. The jobs that Zohn Burden, Torrian Gray and Charlie Wiles had last season no longer exist. They have each accepted new jobs under Justin Fuente, and have accepted the pay that those jobs offer. Burden's new job pays more than his old one did, Gray's and Wiles' pay less.
While their checks might still be cut from the same bank, their employer has very much changed.
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Just got around to reading the new comments. Been busy.
A lot of people commenting on the new coach making the changes and setting pay scale. All of that I get. I have no disagreement there.
Where I disagree is the forcing of pay cuts from performing staff that is being retained for the gain of new staff. I don't mind that the new staff all got serious upgrades in salary. They deserve it. But I am not cool with Gray and Wiles taking a cut to pay for those. Find the money elsewhere or don't.
It's too much to count this as a mistake, or nepotism, or whatever. It is simply Coach Fu making the staff work. I get that, but I personally don't believe this is how you manage a staff.
For anyone interested, the Richmond Fishing Expo is taking place next Friday-Sunday at the Expo Center (same exit as Kings Dominion north of Richmond.) I am going to go down Saturday, well, at least that is the plan now. I enjoy the seminars and will be keeping a look out for some more tackle storage and a new cobia bucktail reel.
I think it is $9 at the doors.
I am jealous of the pups. I have never caught one under 39 inches. They are good to eat and look like a ton of fun to catch on artificial lures. The.The big ones have no food value and are less sporting on the heavy gear I use.
False "alarm".
Do you think he chooses WVU?
You don't think Beamer had a say in it? I'm not saying Beamer called every play but considering how questionable play calling carried over from Stinespring to Mike O'Cain to Loeffler I think Beamer had a bigger role than usual.
As of right now, if he picks VT I would be shocked. (And if he does, it meant Tech's staff did a hell of a job reeling him in.)
Does Fuente have any opposition to hanging 100 on a team like ODU?
Somebody update his wiki page..
Does this seem like good news or not? I saw his officials were earlier this year so not much to go on.
I can stomach the table, it's what the coaches do in the field that counts! and our hopes/expectations are high!
I think you mean third day now that the draft has expanded as the 2nd day is rounds 2&3 IIRC. I think it all comes down to injury history or concerns, see Williams, KJ, Wilson and whether or not your confident in your ability to stick in the league. The real money you make is in your 2nd contract and getting to that a year sooner by going early plus only having a rookie deal for 3 years as opposed to 4 years if your first round makes a difference.
We should expect excellent players on Duke's team, they have their pick of all-Americans, but they showed a TOTAL lack of class when they ran a play and shot the 3-pointer in the last seconds of the game. That's on the attitude of the players and Coach K. I loose any respect for him when he coaches his players to show such a lack of character.
Ok it's been almost 5 days, anyone know what this was about yet?
Strangely I think of the same image for both "hatters" and "haters"
