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Message: [QUOTE="kingtidge, post: 5283353, member: 994"] Could Wildhack have pushed him out sooner by outright canning him?? He could have tried. Here's the rub. It actually might not have worked and at the very least, Wildhack would have had to fall on his sword to do it. JB was not going to go quietly and had the power to take pounds of flesh if he wanted to say 10 years ago and prolly 4-5 years ago even. He even flirted with trying to do that when Wildhack finally pulled the trigger, but yes, his power had waned enough due to the sustained poor performance and the window was open... And his better angels (wife, family, friends, likely helped stave-off him going scorched earth)... And the legacy hire was also a big part of that I would argue. And... Wildhack pulled the trigger when he thought HE could survive it (self preservation.) All in all, a terrible situation and way to go out after 45+ years to be sure, but a lot of how this happened was based on timing IMO. [/QUOTE]