Opportunity exists for Hunt to be more hands-on with Chiefs

[Branden Albert's Huge Balls]

And that's why I think Clark is cowing Pioli now...

http://www.kansascity.com/2011/12/13...xists-for.html

Clark Hunt is heated. He won’t say this, of course, not publicly. Admitting emotion or talking about feelings isn’t his style.

But this is big, right now. The Chiefs are stumbling. His name is at the top of the company directory, his late father’s legacy entwined in everything he does. These failings are dearly personal.

This is Clark’s team to operate, but in the big picture very much his father Lamar’s franchise, and there is symbolism in the way people around the league usually refer to “the Hunt family” instead of Clark.

General manager Scott Pioli’s professional future rests with the man he hires to be the next head coach, but Hunt has something much more important involved, something much more precious:

His family’s name.

Hunt makes for an easy target, especially now, in no small part because he’s decided not to respond to most criticism and because his team — the one thing Kansas City cares about collectively more than perhaps anything else — is losing.

Winning heals most wounds, but at the moment there is a disconnect between fan and franchise that is alarming on a few levels. For the Chiefs’ success and business interests, sure, but also for the man who in many ways was bred and raised to take over the franchise his father founded.

The criticisms of Hunt are not all fair, particularly the ones about him being the league’s chintziest owner. The Chiefs committed about $100 million in guaranteed money in the last 12 months. The remaining cap space is more a product of the team’s youth and Pioli’s vision than Hunt’s demands.

Besides, the link between spending and winning in the NFL is flimsy at best.

He’s actually been, despite the current view, most of what an owner should be. Three years ago, he hired the industry’s top GM candidate and trusted that man’s judgment to run the team without much interference. There is no evidence to suggest Hunt has held Pioli back.

At least from that perspective, Hunt is so far wearing rotten results born of sound decisions.

But right now, today, none of that matters as much as the fact Hunt isn’t much liked by the fans who support his team.

Hunt’s leadership is different from his father’s. He is more ruthless than patient, more focused on results than effort, more guarded than gregarious. But his polish masks a passion for winning that best comes out in private or one-on-one conversations.

All of which means that Hunt — an accomplished man outside the benefits of his last name — is losing at the one thing he most wants to win.

In the three years since firing Carl Peterson and beginning to shape the Chiefs in his own image, Hunt has been something like a personification of the franchise: young, aggressive and eager to prove worthiness.

Hunt is fiercely private and by nature quiet. Even in his business dealings, he tends to speak rarely. An NFL lawyer once told The Star that Hunt has “a listen-to-talk ratio of probably 10 to 1.”

In that way, the Chiefs’ well-known secretive nature is as much a product of Hunt’s desires as Pioli’s, so the owner’s motivations and goals are hard to define beyond the very broad.

But here’s what we know: The things that got the Chiefs to this point clearly haven’t worked, so if Hunt is as smart and caring as he is said to be, then the franchise’s operating procedures are about to change.

The details of that are hazy, by design. But even if Hunt is trusting and empowering the people he hires, the logical move would be for him to exert more influence in personnel matters, especially with the new head coach.

This is a difficult thing to navigate. Pioli knows more football than Hunt, of course, and in any job a micromanaging boss makes for an unproductive environment. But Hunt has already shown that it’s in his nature to insert himself in certain ways that his father never would have, so he should be comfortable providing more guidance than perhaps he’s done in the past.

This is hindsight, but someone who intimately knew the world views of Pioli and Haley could have predicted conflicts.

Hunt should and will ultimately bow to Pioli’s football acumen as long as he’s still the GM, but Hunt can also provide more of a 30,000-foot view to help. That could’ve been helpful three years ago, for instance.

In Hunt’s championship dreams, when the Chiefs are so good he is lifting the trophy with his father’s name on it, Pioli is the team’s brains and the head coach its voice.

But maybe something is still missing. Maybe Hunt needs to be the team’s heart. Now would be a good time to show more of it.

[ChiefBlitz]

you post some of the biggest bullshit i've ever heard of

[Shogun]

Originally Posted by ChiefBlitz

you post some of the biggest bullshit i've ever heard of

Did you sign up just to tell him this?

If so, Lol.

[ChiefBlitz]

Originally Posted by Shogun

Did you sign up just to tell him this?

If so, Lol.

[Guru]

Originally Posted by ChiefBlitz

you post some of the biggest bullshit i've ever heard of

He posted an article from the Star. Take it up with the editor if you don't like it.

[Phobia]

Originally Posted by Shogun

Did you sign up just to tell him this?

If so, Lol.

No. He's a racist mult who won't stay banned.

[pr_capone]

I would love to see Cuban level involvement with the Chiefs. Right now this club has no face to put to it. Clark could be it.

I want this:



to say 2012 - Clark Hunt

/I don't think he will wink tho

[ChiefsCountry]

Cuban's overrated. I would rather him be like the Rooney's or Jerry Buss.

[Branden Albert's Huge Balls]

Originally Posted by ChiefsCountry

Cuban's overrated. I would rather him be like the Rooney's or Jerry Buss.

Almost every player who has signed a contract with the Mavericks loves Mark Cuban.

He took a dead franchise and turned it into an awesome franchise, pissed off the league and still won a championship.

Unfortunately Cuban blows money left and right and I don't think Clark will ever do that.

[pr_capone]

Originally Posted by ChiefsCountry

Cuban's overrated. I would rather him be like the Rooney's or Jerry Buss.

In the 20 years before Cuban bought the team, the Mavs had a winning percentage of 40%, and playoff record of 21–32.[51][52] In the ten years following, the team won 69% of their regular season games and reached the playoffs in each of those seasons. The Mavs playoff record with Cuban is 49 wins and 57 losses, including their first trip to the NBA Finals in 2006, where they lost to the Miami Heat.[53] On June 12, 2011, the Dallas Mavericks defeated the Miami Heat to win the NBA Finals.

Yeah... dude sucks.

[RippedmyFlesh]

Clark's problem is he has to listen to coaches and create an environment where someone could question a Pioli decision.
I believe Haley wanted to draft a qb and didn't want capt checkdown .When you first start is the only time you can justify a bad record that is when you get your young qb.
Everyone does that it seems when starting over except us.We should have blown away Det with an offer to get the first pick.I actually dreamed of that happening because it wasn't Carl who would never draft a qb.
What Clark better learn is he should use his 10-1 listening ratio on his head coach who should know football better than anyone he employs. He seemed to listen to herm but not haley. Bad choice there.

[jd1020]

I wish Cuban was given a fair opportunity to buy the Cubs.

I would kill for an owner with his passion to win.

I would say I'd like for the Hunt family to sell the Chiefs and him make a bid, but then he'd probably move the team and I'd have to switch to a more local team like the Rams, ugh.....

[JCharles1981]

Hey tards, this thread is about Clark Hunt, not some loser coach in the NBA.

[ChiefsCountry]

Originally Posted by pr_capone

Yeah... dude sucks.

Never said he sucked, I just said he was overrated. Like I said I would rather have Rooney type ownership.

[jd1020]

Originally Posted by ChiefsCountry

Never said he sucked, I just said he was overrated. Like I said I would rather have Rooney type ownership.

What makes Rooney better?