01-08-2020, 01:39 PMJNH Wrote:

01-08-2020, 01:27 PMjRuutu Wrote: I know that and understand that, BUT McZ is not just some member who is looking for a job, like him or not, but cant deny he has the experience and tools for GM job. If he keeps looking a for a GM job all the time, at what point you either hire him or let him know what is going on? That is where I see the problem right now.

That’s exactly my point, I don’t think they’re under a duty to tell him “you’ll never get hired”.  I say that mainly because I don’t think he’s explicitly blacklisted.  I just think that he’s continually being passed over for better candidates.  Is his past being factored in? Probably.  But I don’t think HO has to say they’ll never hire him because that’s more or less untrue.  They may hire him, but it’s hard when there’s fresh faces who also have the experience and tools for the GM job and don’t have his history of being dismissed (twice). 

Basically, I think the issue here is that McZ needs to realize that he had his chance and needs to do something more than re-applying to get a head GM spot back.  Whether that’s trying to get in at the ground floor by joining SMJHL management and working his way up or some other way, I’m not sure but what’s going on now isn’t working.  He’s applying based on experience in the league and as GM, but his management past isn’t exactly squeaky clean.  If I was HO, I’d need to see him successfully hold down a managerial position for a substantial period of time before even considering allowing him to take over control of a franchise that needs strong leadership right now.

When you look at the comments today for example, you get pretty good idea what is going on and it´s in my opinion fair to say McZ is blacklisted OR at very least many share the same view on McZ - he should not expect to get hired for GM job, which is pretty much as close to being blacklisted as possible. If and when that is the case - it´s absolutely the HO´s job to let him know what is going on, there are people who still care about SHL, it´s only fair in my opinion to handle it like a professional on the leagues side and stop taking McZ for a ride around if it´s 100% sure he is not getting the GM jobs, honestly cant understand why so many don´t see that as bullying. McZ is a good dude, stop hanging on to something that happened 5-7 years ago.

The times we are at in SHL right now is pretty much perfect time to let McZ have a go and see how it goes, is it not? The problem with proving yourself is pretty hard if nobody is hiring you in the first place, if you think about it the options are pretty limited, it´s been years without any problems. McZ throwing some rookie center to 2nd line and taking the 1st line center role himself is not one of them.