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Paul Johnson on proposed transfer changes: 'I think it's nuts'
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<blockquote data-quote="Skeptic" data-source="post: 415745" data-attributes="member: 2175"><p>I hired a guy once with the best intentions, his and mine. Great interviews, personal interaction, skill set, maturity, name it. On paper I hit a home run. Moved him halfway across the country -- wife, baby boy, household -- paid a small signing bonus with no repayment demand since I thought that poisoned the well, some personal and family per diem and he hit the ground running; we both scored on the deal. Less than eight months later he came in to say he was leaving. Had done exemplary work and at least to me and others had no complaints about the company or the work we were doing. He and his wife, it seems, did not like the South. Everything else was fine. It just was not home and what they were used to and as they were to discover, wanted. He offered to return the signing bonus but that made my company look awful cheap. He tried, it didn't work, he left. Now explain to me why we can hold power over an 18 year old kid making the first big decision of his life and who has given the university his best effort in return for the scholarship money, and he adult walks? Substitute "coach" for "adult" and it is more mysterious. If you want to argue he should not play immediately, I'd object for the purity of it. But then, okay. He gets four years and delaying a year makes another a) hesitate or b) plan ahead at least. Fairness is not the issue. It is just not right. And that is the issue.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Skeptic, post: 415745, member: 2175"] I hired a guy once with the best intentions, his and mine. Great interviews, personal interaction, skill set, maturity, name it. On paper I hit a home run. Moved him halfway across the country -- wife, baby boy, household -- paid a small signing bonus with no repayment demand since I thought that poisoned the well, some personal and family per diem and he hit the ground running; we both scored on the deal. Less than eight months later he came in to say he was leaving. Had done exemplary work and at least to me and others had no complaints about the company or the work we were doing. He and his wife, it seems, did not like the South. Everything else was fine. It just was not home and what they were used to and as they were to discover, wanted. He offered to return the signing bonus but that made my company look awful cheap. He tried, it didn't work, he left. Now explain to me why we can hold power over an 18 year old kid making the first big decision of his life and who has given the university his best effort in return for the scholarship money, and he adult walks? Substitute "coach" for "adult" and it is more mysterious. If you want to argue he should not play immediately, I'd object for the purity of it. But then, okay. He gets four years and delaying a year makes another a) hesitate or b) plan ahead at least. Fairness is not the issue. It is just not right. And that is the issue. [/QUOTE]
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