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3-15 and a cluster-****** orgainzation does tend to be a buzz-kill. I know, I've seen the movie here.

Further to that, look at the scenario it creates in a year or two.
 
Miller forces KJ onto Walters, the team goes sub-500 two years straight and then Walters contract comes up. 
 
The first thing he is going to say is "you basically tied my hands by forcing your HC onto me."
 
People want/need to be evaluated based on their ability to do their jobs, independent of interference. 

I haven't even watched the West & East Finals. My interest in the CFL is at an all time low this year.

I just want to see the Riders lose.

Because it creates the conditions for a toxic environment.  Hire someone to do a job, a job where that person needs to make decisions, and undermine their decision-making by pressuring them to make the decision you want them to make while you are basically holding a gun to their head (employment-wise).

Couldn't care less about tomorrow's game. MUCH more interested in watching two future first ballot hall of famers in Peyton Manning and Tom Brady go toe to toe in Sunday Night Football tomorrow instead.

I always had interest in the GC even with bad Bomber seasons in the past but I've never been like this. This is the first year that I've truly felt the way that I do. Just the way this whole poxxed year went down. The total ugliness of our team & everything with the horrible play along with the executive as well as coaching firings. Seeing that asshat Rider fanbase win the GC will just be the icing on the cake as to why I'm at my wit's end with the CFL right now to the point of almost  being disconnected & I hate being that way. BTW Zontar, I hope the Cats win tomorrow big time.

One thing about joe, his team rarely lost a playoff game. 

Pretty sure there was the same reaction when Mack was hired by some. Not worried. Imwt and all that.
Walters seems like a good football man to have in the organization, but i fail to see how he is any bit qualified to handle such an enormous task as transforming a horrible team that has been mostly crap since 2008 into a highly competitive team that push for division champions each year.
Cis coach to shitty st coach to assistant GM to intermin GM, Not seeing the cfl experience in building a great team from the dog pile we currently are. Sure he has CIs experience but how does that translate into the cfl?
I rather someone like Higgins or someone with similar amounts of experience helping manage teams that have turned from crap into top 4 teams in the league.
Settling with Walters May turn out to be great, but i don't understand our perpetual gravitation to rookie management hires..

Sorry, Kyle. Guess I better learn his name as he sure isn't going anywhere. 

Truthfully, Walters will likely be adequate. 
 
Just amusing how an "exhaustive" search on Day One predictably became "Kevin will have a role here" to an official interim tag removal.  
 
At least we'll have a proven HC in Khari Jones to take us to the playoffs and beyond. 

This. Plus it has to be worrisome that we take a poor ST Coach and make him GM in the space of a year.

I don't mind Walters getting a shot, I just think that right now given what this team has gone through since 2009 a more experienced person would have looked better. Now granted there maybe aren't a lot of those guys available, the optics of this looks kinda iffy. 

Yeah, I suspect they will as the push to get season ticket money is on. They need the appearance of righting this ship. 
 
I just hope it looks like they have a solid plan -- not just "build a front office by way of interim tag removal and hiring of friends." 

unless Cortez is going to go behind center himself, he's not going to fix anything without a decent qb who can execute plays.  Bill Walsh would have failed here in 2013.  A good QB can make even an average OC look good, but a bad qb can make a good OC look terrible.  Cortez is good, but it helped he's had Burris and Durant the past two years as his QB's.  Justin Goltz or Jason Boltus as your QB?  Good luck with that.

I'd vote for Higgins to be GM, but not coach.

Well if I am the GM in waiting I care who gets hired, I care about all the speculation that seems to be rampant and I care if I am involved in the process, consulted or even informed. If that seems to be too much to ask I guess my expectations of running a football ops department are out of line.

Awww, isn't Taman cute, that media darling. 
 
If Santa has an early Xmas present for me it's Austin out coaching the Green and Taman having another ringless Xmas. 

he works in sales for Ourbombers?  Talk about a thankless job.  Every sales pitch would just get vetoed by Shankman.

Atomic...excellent post.  The head coach doesn't necessarily have to be the best at X's O's but he does need to be a leader and have the respect of his players.  
 
Just O'Shea's sideline presence seems to show that he has the leadership qualities.  But again my opinion is just based on what I can see and what I've seen from him since he entered the league.   Never met him and never sat down with him and discussed his coaching philosophy. 

Spent a January there once. Could not believe it. On Winnipeg's worst winter night its nowhere near as depressing -- and WPG is BAD! 

Regina IS desolate, especially in the winter. 

Don't know how any non Rider supporter could be rooting for them on Sun.
 
The bizarre mix of arrogance and insecurity that produces something like "Canada's Team". Not sure what the psychiatric term is for the bravado of acting dominant with prideful independence whilst at the same time actively seeking attention and approval from the very people they say they dont care about. 
and if that wasnt reason enough - Dwight Anderson.
 
No one is forcing you to cheer for HAM but , geez, rooting for SSK becasue you dont like some TC posters ?

You forgot Wade, who will have a bigger voice than everyone else combined...

I blame it all on this new Surface keypad and the Brits who came up with a stupid word for the shitter