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[QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 5659643, member: 173"]
Years ago I worked for a company that was about to start union contract negotiations.  For some reason, the union leadership decided to have an "informational picket" before negotiating started to try to drum up local support.  Ended up in the papers (which still existed) and on the local TV news.  Our lead negotiator was so giddy he was almost dancing in the halls - they'd played their best card before we even started negotiating, making the company look bad.  It did not turn out to be a good decision by union leadership - throwing your cards on the table just at the betting is about to start isn't a great way to win.

JB effectively did the same thing, the BOT wanted this to be a graceful exit with limited PR issues.  JB exploded a PR bomb in their laps - at that point a graceful exit was off the table so telling him "you're done, bye bye" was finally on the table.  I suspect if he'd said "I serve as coach at the pleasure of the BOT, its up to them to decide if I coach next year" - he would have gotten enough support on the BOT to leverage himself another year of coaching.
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