Chron's Manfull reports on the future! (updated)
The Chronicle's Megan Manfull reports that Charley Casserly's future status with the Texans will be officially determined today:
Texans general manager Charley Casserly is expected to resign during a meeting with owner Bob McNair today, ending weeks of speculation regarding Casserly's future with the organization.
Casserly, who joined the franchise in 2000, has spent more than a month deflecting questions regarding his plans beyond this past month's NFL draft. He and McNair said repeatedly that they preferred to focus on the draft for the past few weeks.
Casserly continued his stance of not discussing the issue, and no other Texans officials would comment on today's meeting.
There have been inaccurate reports that Casserly will be fired.
If the event being predicted by the reports is in the future then how can Manfull assert that those reports are inaccurate?
She can't go to the "sources" card, since she has admitted that Casserly won't comment and neither will any other Texans officials.
Perhaps she has a crystal ball?
This is really not the most helpful use of the crystal ball. I say Chron.com should start a subscriber service in which Manfull uses the crystal ball accurately to predict the outcome of, say, horse races, or football games! That would surely be a revenue producer for Chron.com, which might cheer up the otherwise depressed Hearst suits.
Tom Kirkendall argues that Casserly's departure has been a poorly kept secret for some time, the protests of Chron sportswriters notwithstanding:
Inasmuch as the Texans on-field performance over the club's first four seasons has been the poorest of any recent NFL expansion franchise, the fact that Casserly is being shown the door is not a surprise to anyone except the Chronicle. For some reason, Chronicle NFL columnist John McClain has been maintaining the facade that Casserly's leaving is voluntary when there is a strong probability that it is not. "There have been reports that Casserly will be fired, which isn't true," writes McClain. "If he leaves, it will be his decision."
H'mm. Apparently it never occurred to McClain that the eminently classy Texans owner Bob McNair might be willing to throw Casserly a bone by allowing him to say that his leaving is voluntary rather than a firing. The fact that McClain's relationship with Casserly apparently does not allow him even to acknowledge that possibility reveals that he really shouldn't be writing about the matter in the first place.
UPDATE: The "resignation" is now official. If Casserly was allowed to "resign" to save face (as seems probable), it was a classy move on Bob McNair's part -- and a classy move that probably wasn't deserved, given Casserly's campaign with local sportswriters to put all the blame for the 2005 Texans debacle on the coaches rather than himself. That wasn't a classy move by Casserly or those journalists who effectively enabled him.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 05/10/06 12:51 PM | Print |
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