Recruiting Forum Football Talk VI

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SSVol said:
Having been a CEO for over three decades I actually value employees who care enough about my company to let me know what's going on. Guess our experiences are different.
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LOL for a CEO, you sure whiffed pretty badly at reading comprehension there. Who said anything about internal communication and whether the CEO needed to be informed?

My point was that trying to compel someone EXTERNAL to do something by escalating to your INTERNAL CEO (as opposed to Legal, for instance) is evidence for an obsequious corporate fawn who naively believes everyone in the world has as much fear and respect for his/her own CEO as they do. They're the type that tells everyone, "I met our CEO today, " expecting people to be impressed.
 
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jave36 said:
LOL for a CEO, you sure whiffed pretty badly at reading comprehension there. Who said anything about internal communication and whether the CEO needed to be informed?

My point was that trying to compel someone EXTERNAL to do something by escalating to your INTERNAL CEO (as opposed to Legal, for instance) is evidence for an obsequious corporate fawn who naively believes everyone in the world has as much fear and respect for his/her own CEO as they do. They're the type that tells everyone, "I met our CEO today, " expecting people to be impressed.
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Actually seems like a prudent and cost effective first attempt at getting compliance. I read the CEO bit as meaning "we're serious". I would only want to involve legal ($$) if I couldn't get what I wanted the easy way.
 
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peaygolf said:
On the night of July 14, 1881, Sheriff Pat Garrett gunned down outlaw Billy the Kid in Fort Sumner. Garrett had recently caught the Kid, who was sentenced to hang for killing another Sheriff, but Billy managed to escape. Garrett became involved again when he heard a tip that the Kid was hiding out in the Fort.


Or, did he??????:confused:

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Garrett, Pat, The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid (1882, republished 1954);

"I then concluded to go and have a talk with Peter Maxwell, Esq., in whom I felt sure I could rely. We had ridden to within a short distance of Maxwell's grounds when we found a man in camp and stopped. To Poe's great surprise, he recognized in the camper an old friend and former partner, in Texas, named Jacobs. We unsaddled here, got some coffee, and, on foot, entered an orchard which runs from this point down to a row of old buildings, some of them occupied by Mexicans, not more than sixty yards from Maxwell's house. We approached these houses cautiously, and when within earshot, heard the sound of voices conversing in Spanish. We concealed ourselves quickly and listened; but the distance was too great to hear words, or even distinguish voices. Soon a man arose from the ground, in full view, but too far away to recognize. He wore a broad-brimmed hat, a dark vest and pants, and was in his shirtsleeves. With a few words, which fell like a murmur on our ears, he went to the fence, jumped it, and walked down towards Maxwell's house.

Little as we then suspected it, this man was the Kid. We learned, subsequently, that, when he left his companions that night, he went to the house of a Mexican friend, pulled off his hat and boots, threw himself on a bed, and commenced reading a newspaper. He soon, however, hailed his friend, who was sleeping in the room, told him to get up and make some coffee, adding: 'Give me a butcher knife and I will go over to Pete's and get some beef; I'm hungry.' The Mexican arose, handed him the knife, and the Kid, hatless and in his stocking-feet, started to Maxwell's, which was but a few steps distant.

When the Kid, by me unrecognized, left the orchard, I motioned to my companions, and we cautiously retreated a short distance, and, to avoid the persons whom we had heard at the houses, took another route, approaching Maxwell's house from the opposite direction. When we reached the porch in front of the building, I left Poe and McKinney at the end of the porch, about twenty feet from the door of Pete's room, and went in. It was near midnight and Pete was in bed. I walked to the head of the bed and sat down on it, beside him, near the pillow. I asked him as to the whereabouts of the Kid. He said that the Kid had certainly been about, but he did not know whether he had left or not. At that moment a man sprang quickly into the door, looking back, and called twice in Spanish, 'Who comes there?' No one replied and he came on in. He was bareheaded. From his step I could perceive he was either barefooted or in his stocking-feet, and held a revolver in his right hand and a butcher knife in his left.

He came directly towards me. Before he reached the bed, I whispered: 'Who is it, Pete?' but received no reply for a moment. It struck me that it might be Pete's brother-in-law, Manuel Abreu, who had seen Poe and McKinney, and wanted to know their business. The intruder came close to me, leaned both hands on the bed, his right hand almost touching my knee, and asked, in a low tone: -'Who are they Pete?' -at the same instant Maxwell whispered to me. 'That's him!' Simultaneously the Kid must have seen, or felt, the presence of a third person at the head of the bed. He raised quickly his pistol, a self-cocker, within a foot of my breast. Retreating rapidly across the room he cried: 'Quien es? Quien es?' 'Who's that? Who's that?') All this occurred in a moment. Quickly as possible I drew my revolver and fired, threw my body aside, and fired again. The second shot was useless; the Kid fell dead. He never spoke. A struggle or two, a little strangling sound as he gasped for breath, and the Kid was with his many victims."


I scream BS!
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What really happened? I'll never tell. 😎
 
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jave36 said:
LOL for a CEO, you sure whiffed pretty badly at reading comprehension there. Who said anything about internal communication and whether the CEO needed to be informed?

My point was that trying to compel someone EXTERNAL to do something by escalating to your INTERNAL CEO (as opposed to Legal, for instance) is evidence for an obsequious corporate fawn who naively believes everyone in the world has as much fear and respect for his/her own CEO as they do. They're the type that tells everyone, "I met our CEO today, " expecting people to be impressed.
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They could have simply just showed the CEO without the thinly veiled threat. RGW doesn’t answer to their CEO so not much of a threat. While the CEO may appreciate the employee showing them, they may have been fine with the post and not appreciate the employee acting on their behalf.
 
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Jackcrevol said:
word is $10 million fine, and schollies
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My word! If it’s a $10 million fine, then if I’m the administration, I’ll tell the NCAA that we will see them in court over that! That is absurd. Why does the NCAA need to make $10 million over something that an entire administration was involved in, and every single one of them are gone?! Also, we have self impose, 18 scholarship reductions! Unless it’s only one or two, I will tell them to kick rocks.
 
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RyanWalkerPGH said:
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I would like to take this opportunity to show my appreciation to the NCAA for their hard work to help manage athletics. NO ENTITY could do what they do. Not even an area manager of the sweet tea arm at McDonalds could orchestrate such a colossus of unwielding power in fairness of judgment, unbiased objective decisioning, and relevancy.

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110%...I mean this...
**** YOU!
 
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OGbabyaviVol said:
My word! If it’s a $10 million fine, then if I’m the administration, I’ll tell the NCAA that we will see them in court over that! That is absurd. Why does the NCAA need to make $10 million over something that an entire administration was involved in, and every single one of them are gone?! Also, we have self impose, 18 scholarship reductions! Unless it’s only one or two, I will tell them to kick rocks.
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I blame Invol.
 
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volinokc said:
Based on some of the recent energy around here lately, I want to make a joke that we will have to cancel the season and will lose all our recruits, but I really think this all just fizzles out after today.
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Whatever the decision is. We have braved the storm.

If they hit us with $10, I gauarandamn tee litigation.
 
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We can only hope that this judgment is what pushed a couple recruits away that we missed on, and that light penalties could allow us to flip them. Not likely but one can dream.
 
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