How Not to Handle Your Employees 101

Boston College's AD has completely lost his mind. According to ESPN, he has promised / threatened head coach Jeff Jagodzinski with termination if he interviews with the NY Jets. Jagodzinski appears to be moving forward with the interview.

The threat appears to be very real, and the Boston Herald say that it looks like Jagodzinski is likely out regardless of what happens next due to the over the top nature of the ultimatum. Coach Jags is 20-8 in two seasons with Boston College, and his team played in the ACC title game the past two years.

It's especially bizarre given that he was a long shot for landing the Jets job anyway. In other words, he has coached their program to its highest heights, and now may be terminated in a gigantic pissing contest gone awry.

As EagleinAtlanta points out, this could've been spun as a win for BC.

this should have been a good thing. If he gets the job, congrats, thanks for two great seasons. Gene could go find the next Jags. If he doesn't get the job, he and Gene have a big public show of him "staying at BC." You then show to the college football world and recruits that the BC coach is hot and has NFL connections.

All of this and the Jets aren't even a competitor of the Eagles. When your top employees interview at other gigs it's not like marital infidelity. You can manage through it with a positive outcome.

How this relates to UGA? The path to success continues to get easier for our rivals on North Avenue. Also, it's interesting to see how any program can be potentially mangled via bad personnel decisions.

PWD