"Brain Trust" from The Observer

I thought these were pretty interesting articles that go to the heart of the issues confronting the Panthers. I thought someone else would have posted them. For your consideration:

http://www.charlotte.com/507/story/387484.html

and

http://www.charlotte.com/sports/story/387487.html

 

"There have been some changes in the people who make decisions about personnel. Jake Bushofsky retired as personnel director early in the tenure of Fox and Hurney,"

 

so, marty - the sportswriter - has the most say in personnel. that's fucking brilliant.

 

I thought this was interesting, "But John and I, ultimately, make the decisions. We talk everything out at length and we usually have similar opinions. If we disagree about a player, then we take a player that we do agree on."
It certainly sounds reasonable enough, but in those disagreements somebody is right and somebody is wrong. No doubt I'm over-analyzing this because we're loosing, but I have to wonder who we might have missed out on because Fox and Hurney moved on when they couldn't agree on someone.

 

Yeah I don't like that much. Hurney shouldn't have equal say in talent evaluation. If he says "that guy's agent is a dick" or "he'll be too expensive and we can't get both him and player B", that's one thing, but no to Hurney being equally involved past things like that.

 

Hurney should be the one making the decisions, not Fox. Well, actually the GM should be making them, but I'm skeptical that Hurney is qualified to do so. It has nothing to do with him being a former sportswriter, as that's irrelevant, I just have no particular reason to think that he's good at personnel evaluation.

 

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That's the impression that I got from the article. Hurney's a cap specialist, so his input would probably be in signability. Fox would hold the trump card over the scouting dept. as far as talent evaluation. I'm cool with that, but what I don't like is this policy of 'if we can't agree, then we pick someone else'.

I wonder how many of the FA and draftees we've screamed about missing over the years were casualties of the "we didn't agree" category.