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<blockquote data-quote="YlJacket" data-source="post: 549626" data-attributes="member: 2784"><p>I wasn't thrilled with the hire but I tend to agree with your logic. He was a guy with a good to very good pedigree that was being eaten alive in a difficult "political" situation in Memphis. I think MBob thought he could be a good front man/recruiting closer with his energy and "charm" and worked hard to backfill with a strong assistant group. The first year says there was at least a decent argument for the logic. </p><p></p><p>My personal opinion, from afar and with no data or information to back it up, is that CJP still needed a lot of "adult supervision" from an AD and needed an AD to be a lot more hands on than most like or want to do. And when he lost MBob, Todd likely didn't take the same tact. So less of presence that would tell CJP to keep someone like Bell at a further arm's length than you are. And less of an adult in the room approach to the LaBarrie decision and less hands on approach to hiring the assistants to replace the hand picked ones that left (as would be expected if they were that good). I admit I don't know the financial parameters given CJP for these hires but it seems to me that we certainly missed MBob's hands on approach to the assistants. </p><p></p><p>Now what I described is above and beyond the way most ADs think and operate - and frankly most coaches would push back hard if an AD tries to be as hands on as I describe. But if you are going to go the young/out of the box/fix a career path approach that we were taking with CJP (or any other out of the box idea) then the AD has to engage and play that role. I am not sure that happened but again am just watching from afar.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="YlJacket, post: 549626, member: 2784"] I wasn't thrilled with the hire but I tend to agree with your logic. He was a guy with a good to very good pedigree that was being eaten alive in a difficult "political" situation in Memphis. I think MBob thought he could be a good front man/recruiting closer with his energy and "charm" and worked hard to backfill with a strong assistant group. The first year says there was at least a decent argument for the logic. My personal opinion, from afar and with no data or information to back it up, is that CJP still needed a lot of "adult supervision" from an AD and needed an AD to be a lot more hands on than most like or want to do. And when he lost MBob, Todd likely didn't take the same tact. So less of presence that would tell CJP to keep someone like Bell at a further arm's length than you are. And less of an adult in the room approach to the LaBarrie decision and less hands on approach to hiring the assistants to replace the hand picked ones that left (as would be expected if they were that good). I admit I don't know the financial parameters given CJP for these hires but it seems to me that we certainly missed MBob's hands on approach to the assistants. Now what I described is above and beyond the way most ADs think and operate - and frankly most coaches would push back hard if an AD tries to be as hands on as I describe. But if you are going to go the young/out of the box/fix a career path approach that we were taking with CJP (or any other out of the box idea) then the AD has to engage and play that role. I am not sure that happened but again am just watching from afar. [/QUOTE]
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