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[QUOTE="orangecuse, post: 4127663, member: 668"]
Alright, I'll play.

For me, it's a complete disconnect relative to the OP, elimunelson's recent takes regarding the "family business"  as well as other's "as long as he wants to" "he deserves to" type rhetoric, etc.

JB doesn't own this company, he's an employee, period!  He had nothing to do with the building of the Carrier Dome, the advent of ESPN, the birth of the Big East Conference that took this program from a local stronghold into a national one.  He contributed to its heightened successes, no doubt, but the later, first and foremost, is what launched this program into the stratosphere.

These "family business" etc. references, IMO, are foolish.  Such as elimunelson's,  '[I]it all may be an elaborate plan for either Buddy or Jimmy to take over the family business some day too."[/I]  What!  Is this for real?![I][/I]

If you were the actual owner of a company (you know real world stuff and actually dealing with all of the costs, overhead, PA conflicts, etc. unlike JB here) and you had a once very productive $$$ making employee, principal figure, etc. in your organization whom was no longer producing anywhere near that high level, let alone likely negatively effecting profits, market share, etc., you wouldn't hold on to him/her. You would find another more suited position within the organization if possible, or simply have to let the person go.

Otherwise, it's such bad business keeping an individual with diminished skills etc. whom is no longer producing at the specific levels your business has operated and been accustomed to, let alone one that has had an adverse/negative impact to your bottom line and in direct opposition to growth.
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