This is absolute solid gold.
It's the leaked audio from Pat Kraft everyone's talking about.
What would you sound like if YOU were the athletic director who destroyed your own football program?In exclusive audio obtained and analyzed in this video, A...
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Jesus.
I mean, in his defense.....he's the AD at Penn State.
A storied football history from the grand old days with past histories of national championship.
One thing for Iowa to point to one or two championships, but they can point to 10 of them from days of yore. And a few legit ones within our actual lifetimes.
Penn State has just enough oomph to not "settle". But they are shy off the oomph to hang with OSU/Alabama/etc. Even short of Michigan in general.
You know that old saying that the bronze medalist is always the happiest? The silver winner thinks they're first loser. The gold medalist still doesn't feel they achieved their best? The bronze medalist is just happy to be on the podium. PSU feels they have to be on the podium. Deserve to be on the podium. But can't. Their fans, their program, their school....they are all that way. And that's why they have this guy as the AD. This is exactly what they ask for.
The buck stops with him. And to some extent, this is one kind of guy you can have to have to make that step. You don't HAVE to do it this way. There is the Ted Lasso approach. Or this guy's approach. I can't say he's wrong. It's just not for me.
I've lead competitive non-private corporate organizations (a musical 'team', if you will) before. You can run them as authoritarian, even as generally friendly benevolent dictators who just set high standards. But eventually, the commons will rebel and everything falls apart. And quickly, if you don't achieve immediate success. Or, you can be a softer leader who tries to build momentum, encourage success, and provide the tools to do so. In that case, your progress will be slower and the path to ultimate success is way way harder. The difference is, that way doesn't blow apart. It can slowly fade, but generally changes are made before ultimate implosion. And generally, people walk away from it with a decent amount of goodwill and friendships remain.
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