THAMES CANNED - USM Forum -- Message Board

Date: Feb 17, 2005

THAMES CANNED

Date: Feb 17, 2005

"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."

-Albert Einstein

Date: Feb 17, 2005

Can you give any more details, JC? Please, oh, please let this be true!

Date: Feb 17, 2005

May I give each of you my card?

Date: Feb 17, 2005

They could make him a "consultant." He could walk around campus and determine when rooms needed to be repainted.

Date: Feb 17, 2005

I haven't seen any chickens yet - JC you better be for real

Date: Feb 17, 2005

When will the IHL meeting end, and when will we know for sure what happened?

Date: Feb 17, 2005

Justice is always more satisfying when self-administered. I hope SFT falls by the weight of his own ego, pride, and willfulness.

But, if this is a joke, I volunteer to help administer justice to the perpetrator.

Date: Feb 17, 2005

Believe it when I see it!

Date: Feb 17, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: The Jackson Connection
"I just received information that the votes necessary to CAN Thames are in place. The meeting will take place and he will be CANNED!!!!"

Is Kevin Walters from the HA covering the IHL meeting? Even if he is, wouldn't reporters be excluded from discussions concerning personnel matters? While I'm tantalized by this "report" I'm too cynical to believe it until confirmation comes from media outlets, or from USM. Even if they do fire Thames, wouldn't there be some IHL orchestrated smoke screen to allow him to leave quietly, and make it seem as though it had been his decision? Bad health, or something of the sort?

Date: Feb 17, 2005

I would think a smoke screen is very likely.

Date: Feb 17, 2005

Several observers have suggested that if the Board does make Thames step down, the official cover will be that he is leaving for reasons of health.

RC

Date: Feb 17, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Just The Facts, Ma'am
"Is Kevin Walters from the HA covering the IHL meeting? Even if he is, wouldn't reporters be excluded from discussions concerning personnel matters? While I'm tantalized by this "report" I'm too cynical to believe it until confirmation comes from media outlets, or from USM. Even if they do fire Thames, wouldn't there be some IHL orchestrated smoke screen to allow him to leave quietly, and make it seem as though it had been his decision? Bad health, or something of the sort?"

Yes, Kevin Walters is covering the IHL meeting. I will believe what he reports.

Date: Feb 17, 2005

looks like harvard prez is on the ropes, do you think maybe shelby is positioning himself for the call?

with all the money harvard has available, shelby could really show them world class

Date: Feb 17, 2005

Please keep us posted on this. I will dance a jig if the shrimp is canned. Maybe we can get a good president in place now that will help build the univeristy rather than tear it down.

Date: Feb 17, 2005

I cannot give more details, only what has been provided to me. RC is right no matter how you shake it he is canned but the IHL will allow him to save face by leaving on his own. There has already been statements by him that his health is declining!

OH! and by the way this is no joke so for those who thinks so, well think it.

Date: Feb 17, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: The Jackson Connection
"I cannot give more details, only what has been provided to me. RC is right no matter how you shake it he is canned but the IHL will allow him to save face by leaving on his own. There has already been statements by him that his health is declining! OH! and by the way this is no joke so for those who thinks so, well think it."

I thought Thames just recently made the claim that he was in great health and having fun, with no plans to retire, or something to that effect. If failing health is to be his exit cover, then he'd better get sick in a hurry, sooner rather than later....like now, while the IHL is meeting in closed session.

Date: Feb 17, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: The Jackson Connection
"I cannot give more details, only what has been provided to me. RC is right no matter how you shake it he is canned but the IHL will allow him to save face by leaving on his own. There has already been statements by him that his health is declining! OH! and by the way this is no joke so for those who thinks so, well think it."

Didn't he recently say, though, that he is in great health and having lots of fun? As usual, with his typical ineptness, he has not even left himself a graceful exit strategy.

I am very skeptical of this report but I will be the first to treat you to a steak dinner if you are right.

Date: Feb 17, 2005

It is time for positive thoughts. I'll be watching and waiting (hopefully for not years) for those pigs to fly past my window and hades to freeze over; for the gnome to be gone taking the deans and other administrators with him.

No matter what happens today. NO QUARTER...NOT EVER.

Date: Feb 17, 2005

NO QUARTER

Date: Feb 17, 2005

JC, why have you forsaken us?????

Date: Feb 17, 2005

JC....you're in a lot of trouble!

Date: Feb 17, 2005

JC, you've been disconnected

Date: Feb 17, 2005

I tend to discount JC's story, too. Thames has not made any public admissions of health problems--even though many observers wonder how good his health could really be.

Robert Campbell

Date: Feb 17, 2005

In all fairness to JC, I too have heard from reliable sources that the votes are there. Perhaps in order to "save face," the IHL board has decided to wait until Thames' contract expires to give him the boot so health reasons can be blamed. We can hope anyway.

Date: Feb 17, 2005

Thames' contract expires in May 2006. The Board was supposed to evaluate him in April of this year (though today Klumb was vague--maybe purposely vague?--about when that would happen).

If the Board truly is arranging a Thamesian exit, word needs to get around USM soon--or the hemorrhaging will continue unabated.

Robert Campbell

Date: Feb 17, 2005

RC,

Thames had a heart attack in 94 or 95 so don't discount the health excuse.

Date: Feb 17, 2005

Alum,

I'm not saying the health excuse couldn't be used... just that Thames isn't making it easy for anyone who wants him to use it.

Robert Campbell

Date: Feb 17, 2005

If you read between the lines, Klumb keeps stating that Shelby's contract expires June 2006. Maybe the Board is dumb enough to let him stay on until then and hope that nothing else transpires until then.

But then again, Thames does have the medical community behind him, so I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to get "bad results" from a yearly physical to speed the process.

Date: Feb 17, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: The Jackson Connection
"I just received information that the votes necessary to CAN Thames are in place. The meeting will take place and he will be CANNED!!!!"

I have friends who work at IHL. They've been kept in the dark about all developments re USM. I tried to get some "inside information" during the Glamser/Stringer debacle, and my friends who are employees of IHL said that the board wasn't talking. Unless your friend is on the board itself, I doubt that word of his employment status is circulating.