[Husker] Is The Ship Sinking?

[Pat Gaule]

Mark Landin wrote:

>
>Look, there have been a number of Athletic Department staff who have
>left this year. Some of them have been obviously unhappy. I get that.
>I do think there's a problem in the athletic department, and believe
>me I am no big SP fan. I can't tell that this particular situation is
>anything more than a guy who likes his job, and has found an
>opportunity he finds more interesting.
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Until he speaks up (a scenario which likely won't play out), nobody 
knows the real reasons why he left (nor has anyone claimed to), but 
there is nothing wrong with well-reasoned speculation.  Personally, I 
have never heard of someone leaving a job and publicly stating that 
their "main goal" was to get back to the job they're vacating.  In most 
cases, that would not be an advisable statement to make right before 
moving to your new job. 

The reality is that any resignations from the athletic department at 
this time are going to come under heavy scrutiny.  If he had released 
nothing more than a benign resignation statement, I *still* would think 
something suspicious is going on in the athletic department.  Is that 
because I'm "seeing what I want to see" or "predeciding what this person 
must be thinking", as you put it?  Perhaps.  But it's pretty damn hard 
for me to write this off as "just another ho-hum" resignation with 
everything that has gone on in the past few weeks.  I'm not much for 
"conspiracy theories" or "cracking secret codes", but  after reading the 
statements released by those two gentlemen, my gut feeling is that they 
were no longer comfortable with the athletic department environment.  Am 
I wrong?  Perhaps, but it's only my opinion.  I never claimed it was 
anything more than that.