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[QUOTE="omniorange, post: 784049, member: 636"]
Understood the history part of your point, with the "knowing eye" being Shaw I assume since Jake was somewhat handicapped by the college's accounting system.

I was more addressing this part of your post, "Even if you don't like Marrone for leaving and feel he still had work to do you should be thankful he sent a wake up call to everyone above him. There is still a lot thas not even being said."

I don't think Doug was solely responsible for that (the wake up call), myself.  I believe TGD "knows" this as well and "knew" it prior to Marrone coming here.  And while Marrone helped rebuild this program in terms of on the field results, he wasn't much interested in getting his supposed "knowledge" out to the donors who ultimately could make what he "knew" a reality.

Let's face it.  Look around college athletics today and one can see that big time donors want interaction with the coaches not the ADs.  The AD can set up the opportunities, but the coaches have to seal the deal.  The coaches are the stars and donors have lots of projects they can spend their money on.  If you snub them or ignore them or don't seem to want to have anything to do with them, they will go elsewhere where they are feeling the love.

Cheers,
Neil
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