The Bodda Getta

Well, you got to have SOMEBODY to make the coffee and empty the trash.

I think you are mistaken to some degree. TJ was the Associate AD over football before Chizik was hired and remained in that position through the Chizik tenure. Just like Bernard Hill is the Associate AD over basketball. Theoretically, TJ was the liason between Chizik and JJ just like Hill is between Barbee and JJ.

What Chizik did, as I understand it, was to bastardize the process and let TJ be more involved with other aspects of football; i.e. day-day activities, players, etc. that fell outside the normal boundaries of the Associate AD.

When CGM was hired, JJ said that TJ was no longer involved with football. The confusion has occured and continues for several reasons -

- the general confusion over TJ's role past and present
- the AU website that still has TJ listed as Associate AD over football
- the fact that TJ tells anyone who will listen that nothing has changed

Did everyone get a 20 percent raise? There are COLAs. There are reasonable merit raises. Then there's stealing. TJ's raise is stealing.