Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Parsons Out!

"Metronews’ Allan Taylor reports that WVU and long-time Deputy Director of Athletics Mike Parsons are parting company, and it’s not an amicable separation."

How to react? Relief? Elation? The mere satisfaction that something going wrong for years has finally been addressed?

Nobody has been harder on Oliver Luck than me but full marks to him for tending his own back garden and getting rid of the dead wood.

Parsons was the quintessential blowhard, issuing pompous proclamations that conflicted with reality. His focus was on his agenda and to hell with anyone with a legitimate disagreement.  The grapevine, so active in a college town, usually had the information first and accurate already, which made Parsons' PR twaddle even more risible. The only question remaining was, did Parsons himself believe it?  If so, he was unfit for purpose.

Forget the radio kerfluffle (and believe me I'd take MSN back in a heartbeat), Parsons' legacy will be the dagger plunged into Rich Rodriguez's back and allowing Ed Pastilong to take the resulting heat although Pastilong was far from blameless.  Rod's requests could have been evaluated and responded to individually.  If an NCAA rule prohibited something, then Parsons could have said so.  But Parsons seemed to take everything quite personally and so they chose to go to war and lost a quality coach and someone who loved the university and the state with every fiber of his being.

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