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<blockquote data-quote="BrewingFrog" data-source="post: 3014104" data-attributes="member: 28"><p>Have you ever met Donati? Taken the time to sit and talk with him? I'm thinking not...</p><p></p><p>He's no fool. His line of work before the AD gig was Sports Agent, namely CDC's Agent. He's quite familiar with the behind-the-scenes machinations and Media smokescreens. It's not like the guy was selling insurance and just stumbled into the job. He indeed does have experience in the arena.</p><p></p><p>As to "drinking on the job," did you ever run into CDC making the rounds at tailgates? Ye Cats!</p><p></p><p>I believe the issue is that, as I have pointed out countless times, Donati plays things very, very close to the vest. He does not play the Media game. When you shut Media people out of the loop, they take it personally. Some politician once pointed out "You never pick fights with a man who buys ink by the barrel." In Donati's case, he just keeps them in the dark. CDC was an engaging goofball when he wanted to be, or an shrewdly intense listener, or a confider of the most secret things. Donati is none of those: He just wears the Poker Face and motors on.</p><p></p><p>In the end, we don't know diddley-squat about the inner motivations of the players in this drama. There's obvious surface motivations, but one can never truly know the personal angle. It would not surprise me that Schloss does not have a very good relationship with Donati, and that this is spilling into the rest of the equation and tipping matters. Why this is, I don't know. Perhaps Schloss got used to CDC agreeing with everything he wanted, and Donati tells him "No" instead. I can only speculate.</p><p></p><p>At the end of the day, Donati is in charge of what happens. I do not believe him to be a fool. I am also sure the Dixon Drama with UCLA is foremost in his mind as to how to handle a Coach who is (maybe) wavering in him commitment.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BrewingFrog, post: 3014104, member: 28"] Have you ever met Donati? Taken the time to sit and talk with him? I'm thinking not... He's no fool. His line of work before the AD gig was Sports Agent, namely CDC's Agent. He's quite familiar with the behind-the-scenes machinations and Media smokescreens. It's not like the guy was selling insurance and just stumbled into the job. He indeed does have experience in the arena. As to "drinking on the job," did you ever run into CDC making the rounds at tailgates? Ye Cats! I believe the issue is that, as I have pointed out countless times, Donati plays things very, very close to the vest. He does not play the Media game. When you shut Media people out of the loop, they take it personally. Some politician once pointed out "You never pick fights with a man who buys ink by the barrel." In Donati's case, he just keeps them in the dark. CDC was an engaging goofball when he wanted to be, or an shrewdly intense listener, or a confider of the most secret things. Donati is none of those: He just wears the Poker Face and motors on. In the end, we don't know diddley-squat about the inner motivations of the players in this drama. There's obvious surface motivations, but one can never truly know the personal angle. It would not surprise me that Schloss does not have a very good relationship with Donati, and that this is spilling into the rest of the equation and tipping matters. Why this is, I don't know. Perhaps Schloss got used to CDC agreeing with everything he wanted, and Donati tells him "No" instead. I can only speculate. At the end of the day, Donati is in charge of what happens. I do not believe him to be a fool. I am also sure the Dixon Drama with UCLA is foremost in his mind as to how to handle a Coach who is (maybe) wavering in him commitment. [/QUOTE]
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