Clark Hunt wanted to keep Scott Pioli
 

Expect Little From “Media” Member Pioli
June 20, 2013 - Bob Gretz | Comments (14)

It happened near the end of the disastrous 2012 Chiefs season. Whether the moment came during a face-to-face meeting or over a conference call isn’t known. But the key members of the Hunt Family football franchise took a vote.

The voters numbered six, including Lamar Jr., Sharron, Clark and Daniel Hunt – all four of the team’s owners. Also part of the moment was Lee Derrough, former president & CEO of Hunt Midwest Enterprises and now a trustee of the Lamar Hunt and family interests in Kansas City. The sixth person involved was team president Mark Donovan.

The subject was the future of Scott Pioli as the franchise’s general manager. How much discussion, if any, that went on is not clear. What is known is that a vote was taken on whether to keep Pioli, or fire him after four years in charge of the Chiefs.

The vote was 5-1, in favor of dumping Pioli. The only vote in his favor came from Clark Hunt. …Read More!


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We're still talking about Scooter. Thought he was fired awhile back ago.

Holy shit really? He's that dumb?

Thuper

Thank you Mark Donovan and the rest of the Hunts for having a functioning brain.

I suppose all the "Thank you, Clark!" posts are going to have to be revised...

He has his father's blood in his veins. Loyal to a fault.

You could sub Clark W. Griswold instead.

is our Clark reeruned?

in b4 the Chunt.

Glad it didn't turn out that way....imagine how bad things would be here if Pioli were still in charge.

Wait...did i miss the filter being removed. *****

If you're sly you can sneak one by.

Is Griswold available? Even he would have been smart enough to whack Pissoli.

Jesus, this is just frightening.

I find this extremely hard to believe.

I also find most of our 'insiders' here on the board much more reliable that Blob Gretz.

I think so, at least when it comes to pro football.

that's reasonable -- considering Gretz actually knows the Hunts and speaks with them occasionally, whereas the cp gang largely doesn't even go to arrowhead, much less actually know the Hunt family.

So you find it plausible that the Hunts, much less Clark, would give Blob details of the vote to oust Pioli and therefore throw their brother (or in Clark's case - himself) under the bus?

obviously he wanted to keep pioli...clarks just as dumb as scott

exactly

Well there ya go.....Clark either doesn't know anything about how to make critical decisions as to what's best for the team, or he doesn't care and only $$$ is the real issue to him.

Good thing it came down to a vote, so at least someone with a brain could at least cancel out his dumbass.

I didn't say that. I said Gretz is a reliable source for Chiefs news and this place is a destination point for that news. but I can see how that would confuse you into thinking it's the other way around.

I'm not able to access the article (subscription needed), but does the article touch on Clark's motivation? I have no doubt that he was in close contact with all the people in the voting group, and it wouldn't surprise me if he knew ahead of time that everyone else would vote to can him. In that situation, is it really that surprising that he would vote in favor of his multi-year colleague as a gesture of good faith?

If that is how reeruned our owner is we might as well jettison this garbage franchise right now.

if the fans don't freak out and take a steaming dump on arrowhead, pioli is still here...

Clark was as interested in firing pioli as he was actually drafting a QB

Pioli Would Have Given Cassel Yet Another Chance.

This shouldn't piss me off, but for some reason it still does.

What?

This is not surprising. If this was a new, reborn Clark we wouldn't have a retread like Alex ****ing Smith QBing our Chiefs like we always do. He would've made sure a high drafted QB is on the roster right now.

There's a possibility that Clark wanted to play good guy since he was the person who actually had to sit down face to face with Scott and shit-can him:

"Welp, I voted for you buddy, but majority says pack your shit and hit the bricks"!

Yes because he couldn't have just told him whatever when he did it.

:rolleyes:

Poor Mitch: "perhaps draft a franchise QB"?...

I understand your point, but the Hunt family has this thing about not wanting to be percieved as assholes.

It's become really easy to just not give a shit about the Chiefs.

I'm just going to go ahead and disagree here and say point blank Clark, just like his father, didn't want to change GMs. When you have steadman forever and you have peterson forever, it is very uncharacteristic to admit you're wrong 4 years into the next guy.

Aliens.

Exactly.

It's just crazy, though. The entire city turned on the team. If they'd kept that prick another year there would have been more people on the field than in the stands.

We are going to draft a QB, I promise!/Clark

3-13.

Gretz did not say who this info came from, but it's obvious to me his source on this info was not a Hunt fam member.

What has to be established here is when this vote was taken. Near the end could mean November, it could mean December.

I know in November that there were people convinced Pioli would be back. After the Broncos game those same people were convinced he was gone.

I've posted this 100 times. I thought Pioli would be here for 10+ years because of how much Clark crushed on him. Clark didn't think he had a prayer to get him to come here in 09. He bought into everything he said, like a brainwashing of sorts.

If this is true, and with Gretz I'm skeptical, but it would fall in line with that.

Whatever the case, I'm glad at least Clark's family is smart.

yet there was scooter riding shotgun into the off season hunt with clark, to look for a new coach.

Exactly. Being privy to this info doesn't necessarily mean that they performed in the act.

Bitches be having secretaries and shit. Hell for all we know, Pioli had the whole family tapped and knew ahead of time.

I truly believe if Reid would have said yeah on Pioli, he'd still be here.

If Gretz lied, you wouldn't see him sitting in the media room with the rest of them come august. It's understandable, I guess, that fans hate Gretz' for his style and his former position with the team media group, but to call him a liar so desperate for work that he would jeopardize his future covering the Chiefs is far fetched slander imo. Not that you said it.

How does lying preclude that in your mind?

Kevin Keitzman, to my knowledge, isn't barred from attending press conferences at Arrowhead- and he's been making up shit for years.

I mean, we're still waiting for the damned cell phone to ring with information that "will shake the NFL to its foundations".

Unicorns and rainbows.

This thread isn't about Pioli. It's about Clark Hunt. He still owns the team.

LOL at people in denial.

:BS: Fanning the flames of fans' scooter angst in an attempt to boost membership. Or he got bad info.

I thought the choice to keep or fire Pioli had been given to Andy Reid?

Be very afraid of this statement.

well if you don't believe it's true then...

JFC if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck.. clark has not shown anything but incompetence to me. "A" for effort, I guess.

Kevin Keitzman is not a football mind in my book, he's not even in Gretz' area code for all things football.

Yep.

A part of me has died.

Things like this make black baby Jesus weep.

I like that Mark Donovan turned his back on Scooter, and essentially we probably have Mark Donovan to thank for talking in Clark's ear for his buddy Andy Reid. So unsung hero of it all where are all things considered today might go to him.

Mark Donovan was like the inside man for SOC.

I'd like to send him a care package.

this, I believe is true -- mark donovan and a few others in the existing staff perhaps made light to clarky of the reality scooter isn't going to bring in anybody but the mangini's of the planet, having run through his short list of coaches & staffs rather quickly.

I wouldn't "sing" about anything Chiefs just yet. Jamaal & Bowe -- that we know we got. The defense can be up & down, but tends to get going later as the season rolls, but without offense ... yadayadayada.

they have the best QB group since trINT & co, so there's that. If they can get 2/3's trINT from Alex Smurf then we'll see a 9 - 6 team and maybe a post season "that was awful" performance. You know. The usual Chiefs "good season".

I want to have Mark Donovan's children

and here we thought Clark Hunt was the ****ing man. The HNIC that isn't gonna allow to see his fathers team go down in flames any longer. Gifs were put up with Clark Hunt and sunglasses looking like a boss. I don't get it though, why did he want to keep Pioli? WTF?

because he doesn't know what a successful pro football team looks like?

The thought infuriates me. I'm so glad both of those pole smokers are out of here.

I completely believe Gretz. He was very well liked and still maintains a ton of connections from his time with the Chiefs.

Also, he hates Mitch, because Mitch pulled the "him or me" card to Carl when Gretz openly disagreed with him on air once, got Bob fired from the Chiefs. A ton of people thought it was bullshit, and Mitch has many a frenemy in the Chiefs organization (people who hate his guts, but pretend to like him).

Just a little background on Bob. He has lots of connections still, and is well liked within the walls of Arrowhead.

Exactly. Gave him the ability to pull the "I did everything I could but it was out of my hands" card with Pioli so they could stay good buddies. It's just politics.

2013 and money still can't buy you a penis. What's the point? Just give it all to the poor.

I guess Lamar didn't get his money's worth for sending Clark to SMU.

We should all be thanking him and Vermeil. Without them, Reid is not here right now.

Who employed the democratic process?

Lol what game was it where they disagreed?

We need a breakdown of the REST of the article for some context.

Have we started playing at Google Stadium yet?

EAT IT GRETZ

Can't blame him really, Scott did a decent job other than connecting with the common fan.

LMAO

Nothing says competence like 5 wins a year.

Posts like this make me wish we could literally beat the shit out of poster with an AIDS object (preferably a branch from the AIDS tree)

oh...and **** you!

See? Internet rage is good sometimes!

Yeah, Google hasn't shown any interest in the Kansas City market at all. Oh, wait...

He missed on that one. Doesn't mean there wasn't smoke.

Two women at once.