SMUer wrote:The implication was that June or association with June had something to do with Jeff getting the job...not his near decade worth of CFL experience, contacts and previous position as HC in the CFL. I think that is a total misapplication of credit, at least in this case. June probably didn't make any phone calls, I was just pointing out how ridiculous it was to credit the fruits of Jeff's hard work almost completely to June, as if he needed a phone call or he wouldn't have gotten it by himself. Like he had to beg for a recommendation from June who benevolently bestowed it.
You read a lot more into the comment than I did. I did not see anything about a phone call, a statement that Reinebold's CFL experience had anything to do with it, or anything about the credit should go almost completely to June, you read that in yourself.
I took it as, Jeff was out of coaching for a number of years before June hired him in Hawaii. He coached for 5-6 years under June. Perhaps the poster was just alluding to the fact that June helped Jeff out by helping him get back into coaching, Jeff stayed loyal to June by working for him for 6 years, and then got this opportunity.
