Edsall has always been anal about details. I'm sure that what they are doing has been vetted. I don't need to understand how/why it works.
Again, in a perfect world I would be happier avoiding nepotism (as we do in my law firm) because it reduces the risk of certain problems. That having been said, there is nothing unusual here in the football coaching profession in terms of hiring your son, there is nothing unusual here about having one junior member of the staff with a G.A. background who is in their first year as an actual coach (heck, Wholly made that jump while at UConn the whole time I think) and this just isn't worth worrying about any more. So I don't intend to.
I am sure Edsall, et. al. have figured out how this is to be handled and I don't have a problem with his kid on staff. Frankly, I couldn't care less. There will no sleep lost by me pondering this, I assure you.
I will simply be intrigued to hear how it bypasses the second clause of that contract stipulation- that his kid must report to someone who does not report to HCRE himself. I read that sentence and, to my eye, this doesn't pass muster. I don't overly care, I'm just curious.
My point that you responded to about being in state service, however, still holds. In state service, you can not report directly to an immediate family member, and there is no way around it, so what RedSoloCup is saying about organizational structure does not exist in the state. Private entities may be different but this is a long-standing state policy, which it should be. I realize this is not a prototypical state job, but UConn does have hiring practices that must be approved by the state.
