and yet you do nothing to challenge my position that JJ and Turner are interchangeable in your previous statement.Stlhockeyguy02 wrote:The President of this University has every business calling the head coach on something. Jones might not report directly to Turner, but he is beholden to what his administrative superiors dictate, whether that is through Orsini or Turner. This is amplified by the fact that Jones is already, arguably, the most visible non-student at SMU, and is responsible for directing the most visible program on campus. The only argument you can make is that Turner directly calling a subordinate on anything is a misuse of his time, and, a stretch, possibly breeding an unhealthy professional environment, but to assert that Turner has no business to do so is laughable. Furthermore, it doesn't matter where the money came from to pay Jones' salary. He is an employee of Southern Methodist University; the source of the funds is irrelevant...Jones' didn't sign any sort of contract with the donors who are supplying his salary.
At any rate, if as you say JJ is "...responsible for directing the most visible program on campus," unless SMU has restructured itself in a fashion similar to a high school, where the principal...in this case the univervisty president...sits in classrooms and grades professors, I do tend to disagree. It's that basic premise that some of the good folks at Tech took exception to. CJ allegedly had a regent and a chancellor on speed dial and directed his concerns directly over the head of Leach.
And, if you think that the source of the funds and the person/staff to whom those funds are directed have no bearing on one another, I would also submit that I disagree.
