Murphy Elected CEO

[Deputy Nutz]

So thats what Murphy has been up to since his leave of absence.

[RashanGary]

"My philosophy really is to hire good people and let them do their job. That will be the same. You look at the way Bob (Harlan) has structured the organization, Ted Thompson will report to me. That will continue.

"He (Thompson) is really going to run the football side. I'll be supportive of him and help him and provide guidance, but he's going to make all football decisions."




Imagine if we had micromanaging Shermhead in this position. This looks like a great hire and it looks like Ted will be in complete control of all football decisions for many more years. It's nice to know that no fan, board member or senior manager will have a word edge wise in teh direction of the Packers football team. In Ted we trust and if you don't like it, you have no choice

[KYPack]

Bob Harlan showed guts by stopping the Jones hire.

Jones apears to have shown a brusque manner in dealing with people.

The Prez has to get along with the board members and EC. Jones was a ticking time bomb. It does seem that Bob was frozen out of the Murphy selection.

After all he's done, it seems like a shot at BH, but I don't claim to have any inside info.

[RashanGary]

Bob Harlan showed guts by stopping the Jones hire.

Jones apears to have shown a brusque manner in dealing with people.

The Prez has to get along with the board members and EC. Jones was a ticking time bomb. It does seem that Bob was frozen out of the Murphy selection.

After all he's done, it seems like a shot at BH, but I don't claim to have any inside info.

Go listen to the 40 minute conference if you care to take that much time out of your day. It sounds to me like BH had a pretty big influence on the hiring. When they said he wasn't a part, it was only the prelim interviews that he wasn't a part of. He was a part of narrowing down and then a part of the final interviews. It also sounded like he had a lot of influence as far as suggesting what qualifications were required. Listening to the press conference, it almost sounds like BH ultimately chose this guy. BH said "Not to knock the other candidates, but Mark had some experience and qualities that the other candidates did not have. He stood out to us". At no time did I feel that BH was left out. In fact, he's going to be working with Murphy for the next year to help get him acclaimated.

On a side note, I really liked Murphy. I love seeing people succeed on the highest level and you could hear the happiness, appreciation and excitement in his voice. This is a very unique job. The only people that get to run a team like this are incredibly wealthy owners. MM is a normal guy (well not too normal, he's a lawyer that played profootball) but in comparision to the privalaged owners, he's a regular guy running a sports franchise. I think it's pretty cool and I could really sense his excitement and feeling of accomplishment. He seems like a great guy to me.