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Thursday, August 02, 2012

O’Dowd Volunteered for Firing, Monfort Refused

“I sat with Dick and said, ‘Hey, listen, it would make it easier on you, just throw me under the bus here. In some ways, I’ll be better off for it, too,’” O’Dowd told me after the club announced its latest organizational shakeup this week.

“But he won’t do that and I can’t leave him because no one knows more about this place than I do. You bring another GM here and it will take him years just to get up to speed on the issues we have here, how different it is. I don’t have all the answers, but the only way you find answers is you’ve got to try different things. You can’t think traditionally.”


Read more: http://www.850koa.com/pages/krieger.html?article=10316560#ixzz22QDo2wp2

Perry Posted: August 02, 2012 at 04:18 PM | 0 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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