[Mick]

If this is accurate, it explains why Luck is staying with TT. Firing a football coach because he wasnt nice to a male cross dresser would pretty well end your program.  I am not saying it’s ok to bully anyone or that the Team would support bullying. I am suggesting that whoever decided to choose a male cross dresser to be compliance advisor for the football team ought to rethink their profession.  It was an error.

Once the error is made, TT and everyone associated with the football team has to live with it and treat the person with respect. But come on, we can do a better job of matching people with jobs than that.

I tend to agree with you, but whoever hired the person perhaps thought he was just honoring the University's commitment to diversification.

I know you were kidding with that comment, but...we were on the verge of losing a brobdingnagian Midwestern client when Arthur Andersen was imploding. We did all the attest/audit/accounting work, and AA did all the tax work. The tax partner at AA told another Big Five firm that if they made him a direct admit partner, he would deliver all of the work of this brobdingnagian client (pre-Sarbanes Oxley, it happened regularly). The CFO was both his best friend and chairman of the audit committee.

Our head of sales and I headed to the client to try to save it. In our meeting, the client spent 45 minutes describing how poorly we had administered the account over the past decade -- and they didn't repeat themselves. The capper was that our choice of partner on the account was literally as tone-deaf as possible, a spectacular cultural mismatch.

Ignore cultural integration at your peril...

[Mick]

If this is accurate, it explains why Luck is staying with TT. Firing a football coach because he wasnt nice to a male cross dresser would pretty well end your program.  I am not saying it’s ok to bully anyone or that the Team would support bullying. I am suggesting that whoever decided to choose a male cross dresser to be compliance advisor for the football team ought to rethink their profession.  It was an error.

Once the error is made, TT and everyone associated with the football team has to live with it and treat the person with respect. But come on, we can do a better job of matching people with jobs than that.

I tend to agree with you, but whoever hired the person perhaps thought he was just honoring the University's commitment to diversification.

I know you were kidding with that comment, but...we were on the verge of losing a brobdingnagian Midwestern client when Arthur Andersen was imploding. We did all the attest/audit/accounting work, and AA did all the tax work. The tax partner at AA told another Big Five firm that if they made him a direct admit partner, he would deliver all of the work of this brobdingnagian client (pre-Sarbanes Oxley, it happened regularly). The CFO was both his best friend and chairman of the audit committee.

Our head of sales and I headed to the client to try to save it. In our meeting, the client spent 45 minutes describing how poorly we had administered the account over the past decade -- and they didn't repeat themselves. The capper was that our choice of partner on the account was literally as tone-deaf as possible, a spectacular cultural mismatch.

Ignore cultural integration at your peril...