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Steve Sarkisian - (Cutty Sark after Dark, Texas HC)

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ScriptOhio said:
Re: “We are delighted to welcome Steve Sarkisian back to the Trojan Family,” said Haden, who will hold a press conference at 2 p.m. on Tuesday in the John McKay Center to formally introduce Sarkisian. “We conducted a very exhaustive and thorough search, pinpointing about 20 candidates and interviewing five of them. We kept coming back to Sark.”
http://dailytrojan.com/2013/12/02/usc-hires-steve-sarkisian-as-head-coach/

Wouldn't you think that before you hired a guy to a multi year, multi million dollar a year, extremely high profile job you would first do a very "exhaustive and thorough" background check on him too?

See this story:
Documents, former players point to Steve Sarkisian's alcohol use at Washington
http://www.latimes.com/sports/usc/la-sp-usc-sarkisian-washington-20151012-story.html
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Maybe if they hired a professional search firm and paid them a decent finders fee of say, $1 million, they would have discovered his alcohol problems.
 
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Buckeyeskickbuttocks said:
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Ready, willing, and able.
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"Able" being subjective and all...
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
Jesus, so now we're equating a guy who can't handle his booze with spinals who can't walk and guys who had their legs blown off by some chinaman in Korea? WTF is wrong with this country?
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Like it or not, substance abuse is almost universally recognized to be a disease and fully within the protection of ADA. Been that way for years and Congress has not changed it.
 
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Zippercat said:
Like it or not, substance abuse is almost universally recognized to be a disease and fully within the protection of ADA. Been that way for years and Congress has not changed it.
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Re: Haden said he learned Sunday that Sarkisian was not at practice and, after looking into the matter, "determined that [Sarkisian] was not healthy." He announced Sarkisian would be placed on an indefinite leave of absence. He said he looked into the situation further over the next 24 hours and, after determining Sarkisian "did not meet USC's standards," decided to fire him.

Haden declined to go into specifics about Sarkisian's contract but said Sarkisian knew the expectations "and failed to meet them."

A school source told ESPN's Shelley Smith that Haden had instituted what was, in effect, a zero-tolerance policy concerning alcohol use with Sarkisian. When Sarkisian showed up to meetings Sunday seemingly intoxicated, that was a violation of the agreement, and it resulted in Sarkisian's dismissal.

An employee can't be fired for being sick or having an illness, the source said, but the guidelines Haden set up for Sarkisian made it clear a similar incident could not happen again, thus making Sarkisian's behavior a fireable offense.

A source close to the school later confirmed to ESPN that USC had fired Sarkisian for cause, meaning the school believes it does not have to pay him the remaining three-plus years of his contract.
http://espn.go.com/losangeles/colle...ision-fire-steve-sarkisian-was-very-difficult

An alcoholic given a zero tolerance policy on alcohol use, give me a break..........:slappy::slappy::slappy:

Haden thinks he has the "ADA thing" covered; now whether it would hold up in court, who knows?
 
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So if I'm an alcoholic airline pilot, I get to keep my job because of ADA? This is fucking batshit insanity!

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OK, here's what I found from the ABA website, which seems more sane.

Although alcoholism is professionally accepted as an impairment, it is not defined as a disability within the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Instead, the Act describes what is not protected with respect to the use of alcohol and illegal drugs. Furthermore, the judiciary has not established a bright-line rule for treatment and accommodation of alcoholism under this Act.
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Chip Kelly was the first name brought up by the talking heads - dismissed because it was assumed that Kelly wasn't going to walk away from his $10M a year contract and there was no way USC had $10M to bargain with. Now the talk is on John Harbaugh and again I wonder if USC has the kind of cash it would take to snare him.

Anybody know if USC is in a money crunch? It's not like they're packing the Coliseum these days.
 
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