(03-20-2014 04:00 PM)AppManDG Wrote:  

(03-20-2014 11:50 AM)ASUMountaineer Wrote:  

(03-20-2014 07:27 AM)AppManDG Wrote:  You are right. Ultimately the decision was his and he could have just stopped answering the phone. Believe me, he wished he had. Buzz found himself into a deep financial hole. Based on his previous tenure he knew App (by itself) could not provide the compensation he needed. He put up an outlandish proposal thinking they could not meet it. The guys pulling the strings agreed to put up the cash. Anyone involved in serious negotiations knows you never put yourself in the position of allowing the other person to set the conditions. Cobb put himself and our school in just such a situation. It was going to turn out bad from the start. We had a guy who genuinely did not want to be there and a couple of guys flush with cash and ego's as big as Texas pushing their weight around.

It is easy and simplistic for people to say Buzz should have done this or should not have said that. Because his demands were met, Buzz put himself into a situation where he could be manipulated. Regardless of what some people think, Buzz is a genuinely good person. 99.9% of those making negative comments about him are ignorant of the situation. He regrets the whole thing ever happened.

I get what you're saying DG, but the way B**z left town forced me to have no respect for him. That was a very weaselly way to handle that.

I wouldn't be so quick to believe it went down as described.

Maybe not, but to date no other account has been described publicly. IF he left a voicemail notifying CC and didn't address the team, then I have a big problem with that.