As someone who spent over 20 years in large corporate organizations, the words of Moroney as reported in this and the other articles are some of the most absolute BS I have ever heard. And that is saying something, cuz I’ve heard things. Lots of things that played out as pure bs.
Moroney had lots & lots of wordy-words that say nothing and do not match other public statements and actions.
Have heard words like this all my corporate life. It’s another way of telling the masses ‘you know nothing, I do what I want’.
At first I was thinking that Moroney thinks ED, PW et al are too much invested in the coaching role, and the USET has decided that it doesn’t need coaches. It needs an organizer-leader.
But then all the other words are all over the map and make no sense. There is no unified message, no information, no direction.
The most insulting part of all of these wordy-words are the repeated mantras of ‘clarity and communication’ while being the opposite.
From the US Eventing article … maybe this is the only possible tip-off to the truth … maybe …
Moroney explained that the USEF is a business and like in all businesses some personnel information can’t be disclosed “in these types of situations where it is involving personnel there are some things that can be shared and some things that can’t be shared,” Moroney said.
Sounds like a brewing scandal they are trying to keep buried. Buried very deep.
Hopeless. If there is a rug being pulled over some dirt (for all three?), later on we’ll be looking back and wishing we’d just dealt with it, rather than trying to hide it - unsuccessfully. There is zero chance it doesn’t eventually come out. If it exists.
“Let’s be real here, and I’m not embarrassed to say when I came into this job five and a half years ago, the first thing that I had to deal with was the fact that the discipline of eventing was not satisfied and wanting to make changes of five and a half years later we are right back there,” said Moroney. “The sport of eventing wants changes to happen. And here we are, again making changes. Something has to change and we’ve heard from the athletes we cannot keep doing wash, rinse, and repeat. We have to take the time, and that doesn’t mean we can’t also be concentrating on championships and keep moving, we got to find something that’s going to get this right.”
What? What changes that mean expelling 3 people who seem to be performing well? Who wants these people fired?
COTH article …
CEO Bill Moroney told stakeholders within the sport that the staffing changes are part of a larger overhaul of the country’s high-performance eventing program.
So he told the stake holders … rather than saying that the stakeholders told him these firings were needed. This sounds like this belief in a need for change in personnel did not come from the stakeholders.
while the program is working well at the emerging and developing athlete level, it needs to be restructured at a the “elite and pre-elite” levels to ensure future success.
Specifics of what is “working well” and what needs to be “restructured”?
… Moroney suggested, including those programs’ effective use of technical advisors rather than a performance director or team coach. … People want a leader, and they want leaders that they can follow in all phases of what we’re doing … that structure has to be addressed.
ED and PW were not suitable for this role? When and how was that explored? What specifically do technical advisors do that they were not doing?
… But wait, Moroney said that they can’t share all the details behind the individuals. Why not, when they shared their positive qualifications when they were hired? This sounds like something is going on that is a potential embarrassment to the organization. They want to be able to say ‘no longer works for the company’ for all three terminees. Just the way this comes across to me.
“Well, five and a half years later, we’re right back there: The sport of eventing wants changes to happen,” he continued. “And here we are again making changes. Something has to change, and we’ve heard it from the athletes: We cannot keep wash, rinse and repeat what we’ve been doing. We have to look at this hard, and we have to take the time, and that doesn’t mean we can’t also be concentrating on championships and keep moving. But we’ve got to find something that’s going to get this right, and we have to realize that there’s going to have to be flexibility; we’re going to have to make tweaks to it along the way; and we’re all going to have to be part of this as we go forward.”
Classic means-nothing words. Often used to burn the clock and use up Q&A time without giving useful information, and allowing a stage-exit after an acceptable length of talking & presence in front of an audience.
“Some of those athletes had coaching from the USEF coach, some of those athletes did not, but they all came together, regardless of where they got the coaching, to establish a team culture at Aachen and Boekelo that was not present but is praised by the eventing community.”
“that was not present but was praised by the eventing community” …
Mr. Moroney, could you clarify and better communicate specifically what you said here?
Because this seems to be at the root of whatever change someone thinks is needed … but it isn’t clear at all.
