Who is fired first?

[huskysupporter]

I feel bad for the band - because their leader had a temper tantrum they missed out on playing at a football game.

Fire that dude. If he doesn’t understand chain of command at his level then he shouldn’t have been hired in the first place.

 

[Uconnalliance]

The entire program

 

[Windham4th]

Fire anyone when they make a judgment call you dont agree with!!!

The school said it was illness related in a public statement so you fire him for trying to protect the healthy kids because he didnt email someone to let them know before the game...

Good luck with defending that termination in court.

Sure he should have notified someone, but its not a financial loss or someones life was in danger.

It's the band director and it literally had no impact on the game. Everyone needs to get over themselves.

Its so easy to see how conspiracy theories are born on the internet...

 

[Patman]

The school said it was illness related in a public statement so you fire him for trying to protect the healthy kids because he didnt email someone to let them know before the game...

Read that statement again, the school said no such thing.

 

[BlueandOG]

Fire anyone when they make a judgment call you dont agree with!!!

The school said it was illness related in a public statement so you fire him for trying to protect the healthy kids because he didnt email someone to let them know before the game...

Good luck with defending that termination in court.

Sure he should have notified someone, but its not a financial loss or someones life was in danger.

It's the band director and it literally had no impact on the game. Everyone needs to get over themselves.

Its so easy to see how conspiracy theories are born on the internet...

The difference is the significance of his judgment call. Some calls are more important than others. The two BIG bad calls in this case are 1) not notifying his boss when it looked like the band may be unavailable due to illness and 2) cancelling the band without bringing any other ideas forward. I agree, he should not get fired for these calls; however, if I'm his boss, I' documenting our conversation and putting him on a short leash.

 

[ZooCougar]

Fire anyone when they make a judgment call you dont agree with!!!

The school said it was illness related in a public statement so you fire him for trying to protect the healthy kids because he didnt email someone to let them know before the game...

Good luck with defending that termination in court.

Sure he should have notified someone, but its not a financial loss or someones life was in danger.

It's the band director and it literally had no impact on the game. Everyone needs to get over themselves.

Its so easy to see how conspiracy theories are born on the internet...

Looks like he is already gone. The illness thing has been debunked.

 

[BlueandOG]

Looks like he is already gone. The illness thing has been debunked.

Really? I emailed him this morning and didn't get a bounce back

 

[ZooCougar]

Really? I emailed him this morning and didn't get a bounce back

We’ll see.

 

[pepband99]

Looks like he is already gone. The illness thing has been debunked.

as usual, you have no idea what you’re talking about.

 

[ZooCougar]

as usual, you have no idea what you’re talking about.

Oh look, it’s the Pep Band. Tell your band of wusses to hit the portal. Stop playing Iron Man so much.

 

[pepband99]

Oh look, it’s the Pep Band. Tell your band of wusses to hit the portal. Stop playing Iron Man so much.

Look, it’s zoo being wrong again, and deflecting, again. Resorting to poor comedy reflects poorly on you. Try harder.

 

[ZooCougar]

Look, it’s zoo being wrong again, and deflecting, again. Resorting to poor comedy reflects poorly on you. Try harder.

They weren’t there yesterday. That’s all that we need to know. And the school even blasted them for it. Classic Pepband defending the no show.

They should take the rest of the season off. They are pretty mid anyways.

 

[pepband99]

They weren’t there yesterday. That’s all that we need to know. And the school even blasted them for it. Classic Pepband defending the no show.

They should take the rest of the season off. They are pretty mid anyways.

Not defending anything. I was downright furious about the XL stuff, but the events of yesterday had much more to do with terrible weather forecasting and sickness than anything else. The lack of communication is inexcusable.

We have a great band. They were missed yesterday.

 

[ZooCougar]

Not defending anything. I was downright furious about the XL stuff, but the events of yesterday had much more to do with terrible weather forecasting and sickness than anything else. The lack of communication is inexcusable.

We have a great band. They were missed yesterday.

Why wasn’t the Band there? Do tell.

This is D1 football. Not being there in some form is inexcusable. The weather wasn’t even that bad.

 

[pepband99]

Why wasn’t the Band there? Do tell.

This is D1 football. Not being there in some form is inexcusable. The weather wasn’t even that bad.

So now you want info? Pound sand.

 

[ZooCougar]

So now you want info? Pound sand.

So you have no info. That’s what I thought. Go play Iron Man..

 

[Yardigan]

His email is back. I emailed him to express my concern about his decision making process and poor leadership. I encourage others to follow my example:

justin.mcmanus@uconn.edu

“And other factors” = Band Director is a huge baby

Yeah, but at least he's a "Dr." baby....

 

[pepband99]

So you have no info. That’s what I thought. Go play Iron Man..

I have reasonable knowledge of what happened. You’re just posting nonsense (again). Somebwody doesn’t wike being cawed wong, poor baby.

 

[ZooCougar]

I have reasonable knowledge of what happened. You’re just posting nonsense (again). Somebwody doesn’t wike being cawed wong, poor baby.

Can you please put a reminder on your phone to let your contacts in the band know that there is another game on Saturday? That would be fantastic.

 

[uconnfan68]

Mullen is looking for a job and again money talks. 25 million over 5 years gets DM to UConn. Let’s make it happen!

You kick in the first 24.9 and we’ll help withe rest.

 

[DoctorWho85]

I'm at the point that I don't even care about the optics, just hire Art Briles and win.

 

[Slick]

OC Charlton or the UCMB Director?

For those not following the band fiasco:

Yesterday, he had one of his band members leak on the internet that they were not going to be attending basketball and hockey games at the XL due to state spending cuts…without first consulting with AD David Benedict or anyone else from the Athletic Department.

Then today he unilaterally decided to not allow the UCMB to attend the football game today due to “sickness and other factors” without telling the football program, athletic department, or anyone else at UConn.

So which job posting hits the UConn HR system first? New Band Director or New Football Offensive Coordinator?

No one can be fired at UConn. They are all union employees. If he assaulted a band member and it was on video they MIGHT be able to fire him but not positive

 

[cthog]

And I laughed last week when our mascots weren't at the game because they were at a wedding instead.

 

[#1 PA Husky Fan]

What makes you think this administration is willing to invest in football? Not happening. Mora will be here until he quits, which is pretty likely at some point.

Seems like the investment that Colorado made is paying huge dividends. I saw a figure of $90M due to the investment that they made in Deion. Half-ass effort usually yields half-ass results. All in!

 

[Classof87]

Have them switch jobs.

Oh man, you took the words right out of my mouth, LOL!