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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Sure, I get that. But what I really don't understand is why anyone would refuse to recognise his current distinction, which effectively puts him in very good stead to be an excellent GM.
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Because he's never been an excellent GM (and to be fair he's never been a bad one either). I don't have people start with an "A" grade and then get to lose it... IMO they gotta earn that grade.
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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Brad Treliving is like a top-three draft pick.
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Except that he's not... more accurately he'd be like a top-three draft pick that you'd never seen play and that had no available individual stats to peruse. If someone went out and drafted a player like that in the top 3 most fanbases would freak-out regardless of whether he had glowing reports or not. Would they quickly change their tune if said player then showed that he was worth the pedigree? Of course they would. By that standard Treliving is getting off easy. Really though their not equivalent situations and I think calling him 'like a top-three draft pick' is a little bit of revisionism... I'm scanning the 'who do we want as GM' thread... not a lot of pining for Treliving so it's not like he was a known commodity ala Nill pre-Dallas.
Sorry, the org hasn't earned the cred lately to go off and make hires and expect an immediate vote of confidence on whomever they hire absent a record. That kind of cred was spent a long long time ago. They gotta earn back.