Re: LSSU Lakers 2014 off-season thread (part 2)
People were too afraid to ask the REAL questions! It's funny that Whitten mentioned AD's knowledge of hockey - she's married to a hockey coach and her kids play hockey. Funny he didn't mention that they coach and play in St. Ignace - our community's rival team! He also didn't mention that her husband was part of the coaching staff who experienced the worst years of hockey at Lake State, and brought the program to its knees. His comments were all nicey-nicey ***kissing comments. He will see in time. You just wait!
I thought this forum had enough with Roque’s depravity, so I had kept quiet about it. Meantime, the toxic Roquettes army is still around calumniating honest people and spreading their propaganda on the net to show Jim Roque as the victim, without anyone here standing up and saying what informed people know.
Politically correct statements at press conferences is just standard practice; I’ve heard Roque’s awesome job being praised by people who meantime were preparing for getting rid of him. Just listen to players at the hockey show and sit with them a few hours later.
Rather than slandering whoever is not on your guru’s tribe, why don’t you ask - and answer - the real question: Why was Jim Roque fired?
Kris Dunbar had no choice but to acknowledge that keeping Jim Roque around had become increasingly unsafe in many respects. Taking advantage of an expired contract, she crossed her fingers that an unexpected end of season winning burst would not happen and make it too difficult to justify without giving the true reasons and boost the Roquettes.
She wishes she had done it several years earlier when she was informed about troubling facts, but just didn’t have the guts, or experience, or support, to face the consequences.
The reactions for just not renewing a contract for a coach who had brought nothing after nine years suggest what it would have been like with the slightest achievement.
If Kris Dunbar is to be blamed, it should be for for letting Jim Roque loose and failing to fulfil her supervisory role, and deliberately ignoring the facts brought to her attention. She may have to face the consequence for her negligence, but not in this post.
The poor performance, low attendance or whatever allegedly is all the AD’S fault are not the reasons why Jim Roque was fired.
After slandering Joe Shawhan who was deceived by Jim Roque when questioning his practices, the Roquettes now bring in Anzalone, who hired and taught Jim Roque the job, but was later thrown under the bus by the same ungrateful person. Sure, Anzalone crossed the line at times, and I am by no means an Anzalone supporter in this respect, but in all fairness, Anzalone was almost harmless compared to Roque.
Bright abusers and indeed manipulators in general often manage to live a whole life destroying people and their environment while still making themselves out to be quiet and “even keeled” people. When they are not so bright, they make disturbing mistakes like running after a referee on the ice, calling the police against a linesman, going ape**** in the locker room with no reason or staying totalling impassive when a reaction is expected, disappearing for days or weeks without letting players know what's next, humiliating players publicly during a game or in front of teammates, grabbing a player by the jersey and bluntly pulling him out of team picture, ignoring the opponents coach when shaking hands and still denying despite the cameras … just mentioning a few.
Only the tip of the iceberg is visible but, behind the scenes, staff, supervisors, assistants, broadcasters, referees and of course players experienced or witnessed intimidation, manipulation, interference, and other abusive behaviors, leading many players and parents to suspect the man is sick since, in addition to numerous deceptions, serious distress was intentionally caused to his scapegoats to freeze them out.
This is what the next organization hiring Jim Roque will get if they fail to do their homework, but as far as the Lakers are concerned, it is a huge stone being pulled out of the shoe, which is great news.
All other things being equal (recruitment, finance etc ...), just bringing this nuisance to an end will surely give anyone around the team a chance to contribute for the best, and at least the Athletic Director has a chance to adjust and learn from experience. Fans should be confident that the coach and the AD will now work together. They can be pretty positive about the Lakers improving significantly before long, and should do their part by attending games and donating.
There is no doubt that there will be other repercussions than just ending the contract, but this will have no effect on the team’s performance, and is therefore outside the scope of this post. As a matter of fact, it didn’t raise much interest when it was pertinent, mostly giving rise to scornful comments by moronic posters.
Jim Roque followers should now stop using this post for their propaganda aimed only at sabotaging the people now in charge and making Jim Roque appear as a victim.
I also encourage the Anti-Roquettes, (including the “Truths” and several others) who believe that Jim Roque should be held accountable, to refrain from upsetting peaceful posters by bringing it up here and instead join energy within a group already dealing with the matter in a discreet but factual and more efficient way.
Hopefully this will help this thread move on, concentrating on it’s core objectives which are exchanging ideas, reflecting on how the Lakers perform, and recommending ways on how to improve.
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