manner in which he has apparently handled his outplacement. A stark contrast to Polk. I would have assumed the roles to be different. Enjoy retirement Larry. Good riddance Polk.
After bashing Templeton for years, I have to give him credit for the
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about what is occurring with the situation, but seeing as how we seem to get so little of that at MSU at times, it still deserves kudos.
One more thing about Templeton: I have also been pretty critical of him (and praise the Lord he's gone), but apparently he has been extremely gracious to Greg at SEC meetings and at other AD meetings. Of course, he is just being professional, but after the Polk debacle, it is nice to see.
Larry is moving into an office in Bost Extension Center and will be sticking around for a while. His retirement date is in June (or early July) so that would mean that he is now on staff in an "advisory" capacity. What I have heard is that Vance Watson has been Swindolled (thanks, in part, to the "Cigar Boys") into keeping him on in this capacity...his duties as "advisor" remain unknown. If this is true, which I believe it is, it will likely be to Dr. Watson's demise in his quest for full-time presidency.
in the athletic dept. He may have an advisory role somewhere else on campus or with the SEC (which Dr. Watson said had shown interest in having him work for them). I agree with the original poster. Templeton has acted professionally in the transition. I think he will continue to. As much as I've criticized him, no one can say he doens't love MSU. I think he knows that it was time for a change in leadership in the athletic dept. and I think he's OK with that.
this is not to mention that he may be relieved to be out of the public eye and constant scrutiny of his actions. i am sure it was great to have a position with so much power but at the same time i think he saw the **** storm that GB had in his first couple of months and was glad to not have to deal with anything like that anymore. i could be wrong but i know that i would feel that way. he can now be an adviser and let someone else make the decisions and have to deal with the consequences.
with it because he would have just caved to whatever Polk wanted. He was probably in agreement that Polk is the AD for baseball. Still pissed at LT for letting Polk come back to the job he had already quit (twice actually) when Mac left. I'm happy for the situation now but I believe if we'd had a Manieri type for the last 7 years our program would be in a lot better shape.
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