I mean JFC, I cringe to think about how some of the 'tucks would run a business. Say you have Old Balls Family Nameless Corporation, inc. Your company has been given the following disadvantages:
-You are in a remote location with a small population base to buy your products
-There are other well-established companies within your vicinity that have a much better business record than yours
-It's generally difficult to recruit top-flight business talent to your corporation, but it's possible to pick off the occasional superstar
-Your company was on the brink of bankruptcy and folding for years until CEO Old Balls came along.
However, you have the following advantages:
-There is more regional interest in your company than your in-state rival because they're just flat out incompetent except for a blue moon every 10-15 years
-You may not be rolling in cash like BobStoopsBag'O'Dicks, ltd or MackBrownGoldPlatedBoxerBriefs, Inc., but you have enough money to be fairly competitive with a good number of your rivals
-There is at least a precedent of success and major profits back when CEO Old Balls took advantage of some down years of companies in Texas and Oklahoma and was able to recruit enough business talent to be a major pain in the ass to NebraskaDenimOveralls, Inc.
So, CEO Old Balls steps down a few years ago after a couple of underwhelming years and they bring in some smooth-talking dude who sells the dumbass company board with a bunch of content-less motivational synergy talk. He proceeds to expose himself as a good business talent recruiter who is completely incompetent in all other areas. CEO Scary Smart gets unceremoniously shitcanned and proceeds to embarrass the company by claiming that the head of the company board gave him a secret agreement that gives him a shitload of money. The shareholders more or less set their underpants on fire in mass panic. The search for the new CEO nearly nets an up-and-comer that's essentially the most sought-after name in business that hasn't yet established himself as a top-flight CEO. However, the dumbass company board and their marketing department (Fitz) let news leak that they're going to lure him from a firm that he's been very loyal to, and the up-and-comer flips crap and bugs out. Internal politics may have also been in play regarding the information leak, but there's no way for the shareholders to know what happened other than word of mouth. The company board then goes entirely into panic mode and brings back CEO Old Balls to appease the shareholders. It's not an optimal situation and not likely to work out long term, but it at least gives a veneer of stability.
CEO OB proceeds to do a good job in rebuilding the one thing he's always been good at: innovating and creating new products. However, he's always been too hard-nosed to keep any good leaders (outside of the innovation department) yet he's too soft to fire anyone too incompetent to lead a department, such as patenting. After running off the one good patenting department head that the company has had in years, he brings back a retread who has never established himself as anything better than mediocre and has no track record of recruiting any patenting experts. Due to the current head of patenting being utterly incompetent and refusing to adjust to the realities of today's marketplace, other companies proceed to raid the innovations of Old Balls Family Nameless Corporation, inc. and take their ideas before OBFNC can patent them. The company could've had a very good, productive year in 2010 if it weren't for spies from BaylorBibleBeltBuckles, Inc. and ColoradoGreenSmokeSolutions, LLC. taking ideas that could've easily been patented with a few internal adjustments. However, CEO Old Balls does not recognize this and proceeds to thank his patenting director for yet another loyal year of service. He then goes back to his office to read the company innovation reports and not say a word to a single member of his staff. It becomes clear that he's not going to change a single thing about what he does, and in today's marketplace his strategies will give the company a ceiling of one potentially good year of profits out of a majority of years that break even or show a slight loss in profits.
It also comes to light that CEO Old Balls has put his hand in the company cookie jar by doling out some of what should be company money to his kids and extended family instead.
Now, here's the point where a normal business would have the shareholders and company board (which is now not blatantly incompetent) come together and demand solutions to improve the bottom line for Fiscal Year 2011. They'd be irate at the rate of leaked information about company innovations and possibly the CEO taking company money for personal use. They would likely clamor for one of two things: a minimal but necessary response of demanding a change in mindset and planning from the top levels of leadership, or going all-out and giving the current CEO and his leaders golden parachute buyout packages.
In this case, the shareholders of Old Balls Family Nameless Corporation, Inc., aside from a very vocal minority, demand neither, and say that they are just fine and happy with breaking even for the next 5 years and not maximizing profits because, goddamnit, CEO Old Balls once had us rolling in cash and we never were able to do that before he came here!
Tucks, your arguments have no clothes. I'm actually one of those who wouldn't mind keeping Snyder around as long as he shows a commitment to changing his S.O.P. aside from offensive coaching, but it's pretty clear that he's not going to do that. And why should he? He has no pressure from his so-called shareholders--YOU--which means that the company board (ADJC and UPKS) has no incentive to make him change anything. Your mindset is wholly illogical and accepts eternal mediocrity. It has pervaded in nearly every facet of KSU for far too many years, and the school is just now starting to make strides in both athletics and academics in shaking off the extensive damage that this mindset has done. Either accept that there are those that demand more than mediocrity or have the decency to get out of the way.
