Burning Bridges!!!

So I learned a while ago that one of the most important rules in networking is "Never Burn Bridges". Well some people are horrible when it comes to remembering that. Last year in my Sports Management class our teacher told us this story about a coach in our athletic conference. JMU had to cut a number of their male sports last year, Track and Field happened to be one of them. A coach in the conference sent an e-mail to JMU's Athletic Director telling him that he was a coward and they didn't respect him. The reasoning behind this being that instead of the Athletic Director telling the team that their sport would be cut, he sent the Assistant Athletic Director.

Well, JMU's Athletic Director forwarded that e-mail to every other Athletic Director in the CAA. This past May VCU opened a position looking for a new head coach. The coach that sent the e-mail applied for the job. Needless to say they did not get the position and probably will not ever work for a school in the CAA.