(07-08-2017 11:10 PM)mixduptransistor Wrote: Everyone who wants/wanted Brian Mackin to sing like a bird and "well he made enough money so I don't buy the he has a family argument" need to live in the real world and dislodge your heads from your backside. You may be capable/willing to throw your career down the toilet, it doesn't mean everyone is
From each according to his/her ability.
Brian Mackin was never going to fight on the barricades. It's simply not his way. We raised other heroes from our ranks who did.
The "family" argument - which Mackin himself has never raised, to my knowledge - is cowardly. Stand and fight, or admit that you have one of those wriggly jelly-like fishing lures where your spine is supposed to be, but don't hide behind "family." And if he actually believed it, which I doubt with good reason, he resigned anyway and did so at a vital moment.
I am very satisfied with Brian Mackin's role. The Wattzis made so many mistakes, and so many enemies, that we didn't need him to sing. And if he had, it could easily have been spun as the mewlings of a disgruntled employee, a personal personnel matter (granted, that would have required semi-competent management of their effort). He followed his obligations when his superiors did not, when others wished him to break his word.
And had he broken his word, he would not be at the CUSA offices, and Mark Ingram would not be fumbling his doughnut with anxiety every time he has to phone Dallas. He's going to have to shake his hand. In public. This is going to be fun.
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Scarbo: Brian Mackin took the high road from UAB to Conference USA
