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Rockpile233

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  1. I really like what McDermott is saying, but talk is cheap. There have always been buzz phrases surrounding new coaching hires and "detail-oriented" is the latest and greatest. When the real games start, I'll start developing a real opinion on McDermott.

     

    With that being said, I'm generally pessimistic about the fact that the owners want to hire everyone and be very involved. I don't think they are very qualified to make direct football/hockey operations hires, yet they insist on it. I would like a president of ops on both sides who is qualified to make GM/coaching hires based on X's and O's more than intangible personal characteristics.

  2. Even if they go with that "czar" approach, he's still going to have to be the one that hires that person. If the GM is going to be the one in that role, then so be it, but he (the GM) then needs to be the one to hire a coach.

    Agreed, they have to eventually trust someone, but I'd argue that the president/czar role is an easier hire to make based off of past accomplishments and gut feelings on someone.

     

    The lower you move down the organizational chart into more direct hockey/football operations, the less qualified I feel they are to make those hires. Yet they seem dead set on making them. The Bills is a clearer example.

  3. At this point, when I hear the Pegulas will be directly hiring coaches/GM I cringe. I understand they own the teams and it is their right.

     

    I'll hold off on making judgements until someone is hired, but we have seen a bit on the Bills side. We know the Pegulas directly hired Rex and seemed to have directly hired McDermott. Sure you can get a sense of the "intangibles", but to me any conversation coaching related should be rooted in X's and O's and how philosophies fit with the current roster talents. Focusing too much on the person got us a coach in Ryan, who's scheme didn't jive with the already dominant defensive talent leading to regression.

     

    My point here being...what qualifies Terry and Kim to make these sport specific decisions? I understand at some point you need to trust someone, but I have come around to the "czar" philosophy for both teams. I think we need a qualified buffer between the Pegulas and direct ops decisions. The owners seem to desire direct involvement though, which I'm skeptical of.

  4. that's a **** ton to read. So I stopped.

    Your experiences in prisons involved what? And as far as 60°, i do not believe that. I've seen them as low as 48° for hours and never reach 60° Bob barker furnishes materials. Why not have inmates do those jobs? What's wrong with chain gangs?

    Inmates are paid weekly. But also charged for their housing. Explain that one to me.

    I work for a HVAC company. The laws are there, look them up. Most have cooling as well. My physical experiences are in New York State.

     

    The company furnishes prison materials, correct? Their customer is then the government entity, aka taxpayers. You are describing a company that furnishes material to themselves.

     

    I can't speak to your last point, but they are taxed like any other person.

  5. ever been to a prison? No one goes hungry. Air conditioning is not needed. Heat is barely needed, keep it at 60°

    And if you can't turn a profit you don't belong in business. There are many profitable prison industries out there. Bob barker makes a killing.

    Yes, I'm in prisons regularly. They eat because of taxpayer money. There are laws dictating comfort temperatures ranges. Those are state to state, but none are as low as 60.

     

    Bob Barker uses 100% incarcerated labor? I thought they were a supplier?

     

    You just feel entitled to 100% of your paycheck, ignoring that gainful employment in most cases is a product of a community structure. We are humane with our incarcerated and it takes taxpayer money.

     

    The whole "not paying for your bad decisions" rhetoric is tired. When applied to healthcare, many conditions have nothing to do with decisions.

     

    Self over community is shallow. Progressives are in the same boat only their demands are different.

  6. inmate jobs, inmate work camps, inmate chain gangs.

    Let the inmates learn a trade whilst locked up. Let them run the facility, essentially to make it a business.

    There is so much wrong with this.

     

    What happens if this prison business doesn't turn a profit. Do the prisoners not eat? Does the HVAC not get repaired/upgraded? What exactly is this business model?

     

    Another fantastic libertaritard idea.

  7. You cannot know what it really is.

     

    Did past work auditing the stats, anyone who had given up looking for a job was no longer unemployed, a mighty fine way to hide true unemployment.

     

    "Completely lost any hope of getting a job that meets the skills and education of the person" should be a category, easily accomplished.

    You seemed to know enough to push rhetoric that Trump will somehow get America working again. I grant the statistics are far from perfect, but are still useful to show relative figures over time. Any metric you use points to relatively healthy employment levels.
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