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The thing is, that's pretty much what happened, based on one version of the story.What I heard from DRad just now:
“Look, I have no idea who I’m going to get to lead this program. I also had no idea that anyone would be interested in taking you off of our hands. You caught me with my pants down! There has to be a catch, but I don’t see it yet. Let’s just stay buddies until I figure this out. This is an issue for future Dave and future Paul, amirite? Go get ‘em buddy! I’ve got a ‘vote of confidence’ presser to write.”
I shared years ago: https://gtswarm.com/threads/remembering-hewitt.17670/page-2#post-548621
- Hewitt accepted the St. John's job.
- Hewitt told his boss, the GT AD, and asked for time to return from vacation to tell his GT players before a formal announcement.
- During that time, the GT AD asked Hewitt to stay.
- Hewitt says stte of "it's clearly not working here. I don't have a lot of support." and the AD replies with stte of "You're our guy".
- Hewitt stays at GT.
- A year later, the GT AD fires Hewitt.
- Hewitt asks the GT AD, "I thought I was your guy?" and the AD replies with stte of "Last year we couldn't find anyone better."