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wizenheimer said:


this makes me worry that Olshey won a power struggle with McGowan

or it could be that McGowan is the fall-guy for the Root Sports fiasco
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Supposedly Hankins was the architect of the Roots Sports deal. And I wouldn’t worry about an Olshey power struggle…my guess is Chris got implicated or it’s gonna look and as President he let this go for 10 years.
 
Blazer Freak said:
Supposedly Hankins was the architect of the Roots Sports deal. And I wouldn’t worry about an Olshey power struggle…my guess is Chris got implicated or it’s gonna look and as President he let this go for 10 years.
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Exactly, he looks complicit.
 
illmatic99 said:
im referring to the lack of an aggressive move like what MIL did when they got Holiday. High risk high reward. Neil has been historically very conservative, and that's been my biggest criticism of him.
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Bring back Trader Bob.
 
twobullz said:
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they're really going to drag this along, aren't they? the outcome is all but known, why prolong it?

this is what haynes said.

After interviewing employees at the practice facility late last week, O’Melveny & Myers — the firm enlisted to investigate the claims — extended its investigation to interviewing individuals outside of personnel at the practice facility, including former and current employees, sources said.

That process was expected to last a few weeks before a ruling on Olshey's future.
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illmatic99 said:
Is that supposed to be a criticism of Neil? Cuz if anything, i wish he was more aggressive in using picks for difference makers. He was too protective of them until the Roco trade
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Judicious use of those picks, yes.

But since it took him something like 5 1st round picks plus Ariza and DJJ to get Zach, Cov and Nance, not sure he knew how to be properly aggressive.
 
Chris Craig said:
Due diligence?
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if they find even a few people alleging misconduct and find it to be true, what reason is there to prolong the inevitable? It then becomes a question of if they deem whatever they found to be grounds for firing. Slippery slope from there from the PR perspective.

Comes back to my underlying question about the motive for the investigation. If it's simply to improve the workplace environment, he should be gone asap. If it's to protect themselves from having to pay out his contract and potential litigation against wrongful termination, then I can see them taking longer. Then it appears the whole reason for this was strictly financial, which might be another PR hit considering they just ate the Stotts contract.
 
illmatic99 said:
if they find even a few people alleging misconduct and find it to be true, what reason is there to prolong the inevitable? It then becomes a question of if they deem whatever they found to be grounds for firing. Slippery slope from there from the PR perspective.

Comes back to my underlying question about the motive for the investigation. If it's simply to improve the workplace environment, he should be gone asap. If it's to protect themselves from having to pay out his contract and potential litigation against wrongful termination, then I can see them taking longer. Then it appears the whole reason for this was strictly financial, which might be another PR hit considering they just ate the Stotts contract.
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We haven't heard a peep from Olshey, he is most likely on administrative leave during this. I think there could be more jobs on the line in the front office and when Vulcan announces, they might want to get all of the toxicity out of the organization.
 
blazerkor said:
We haven't heard a peep from Olshey, he is most likely on administrative leave during this. I think there could be more jobs on the line in the front office and when Vulcan announces, they might want to get all of the toxicity out of the organization.
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ya i was curious if olshey was still working during the investigation.
 
illmatic99 said:
ya i was curious if olshey was still working during the investigation.
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Neil sighting....

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blazerkor said:
We haven't heard a peep from Olshey, he is most likely on administrative leave during this. I think there could be more jobs on the line in the front office and when Vulcan announces, they might want to get all of the toxicity out of the organization.
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Oroborus?
 
getting tired of refreshing twitter for olshey news. It's 4pm on the east coast, all the daily sports shows are done. The friday afternoon news dump shoulda happened now.

oh well.
 
illmatic99 said:
getting tired of refreshing twitter for olshey news. It's 4pm on the east coast, all the daily sports shows are done. The friday afternoon news dump shoulda happened now.

oh well.
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It was a Canzano quote, so who knows, but he said that a source from the franchise said the investigation was a few weeks from ending. I think there's a decent chance that there won't be any Olshey news for a while.
 
julius said:
Oroborus?
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If you're referring to one of these things
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I would have to say that Vulcan will not be looking at Vulcan, they'll just be looking to root out any PR problems with the Blazers organization. McGowan leaving, even if it is just a coincidence, definitely helps insulate Vulcan even if they do have their own problems.
 

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blazerkor said:
If you're referring to one of these things
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I would have to say that Vulcan will not be looking at Vulcan, they'll just be looking to root out any PR problems with the Blazers organization. McGowan leaving, even if it is just a coincidence, definitely helps insulate Vulcan even if they do have their own problems.
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No, it was the "getting rid of all the toxicity". They'd have to eat themselves.
 
Haynes says some players were interviewed as well as part of the investigation and that Neil has been at the PF daily since the investigation started
 
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another story:

https://www.oregonlive.com/blazers/...-staffers-you-tried-not-to-be-around-him.html

mostly more of the same essentially confirming Olshey was an AHole to people he had power over. I know some have excused this behavior as "management style" but I think that's BS. It's not style to lack basic human decency. It's just bad character (and yeah, I know this adds Fentress to the list of people that should be fired for saying negative stuff about the soap star)

I had my own employees for 25-30 years. Not many, usually no more than 3 or 4, sometimes 5, sometimes 2. Was in construction so there was a tendency for high turnover. Most were good employees, some weren't. But I never berated any of them or called them names. Not one time. It's not only unnecessary, it's unproductive...it's stupid. Yeah, I had to fire somebody every once in a while, but even that action can be handled compassionately, even though a couple of times I was tempted to get in some parting shots...but didn't

there was one "high level" employee mentioned in the article that had good things to say about Olshey. Whoever it was wanted to remain anonymous which is a little strange, although maybe that's due to woke/cancel culture...I don't know. But that could just be the exception that proves the rule. I'd also be curious to know how high-level he/she was. It could easily be that Olshey had two standards of conduct: one for people who might be at his level some day or who might be able to do something for him in the future; and the other standard (of abuse) for everybody else
 
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