Comments on: McGraw Gets the Boot at Sports Commission

By: Make me laugh

Make me laugh — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:05:40 +0000

John Talbert, please, spare us with your lack of intelligence and start using spell check. When you can name one event she brought in that made any kind of noise here in Louisville I’ll buy you a steak at Jeff Ruby’s. I’d guess her lack of production and inability to deal with simple politics and that forgetful letter to her board was the reason for her demise. Not Jim Wood. He’s a great person and a hard worker who has put so much money into our local economy that McGraw couldn’t carry his, well, jockey strap.

By: JustALouisvilleGuy

JustALouisvilleGuy — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:42:21 +0000

Let’s be real people…any type of executive with real executive skills knows not to send that type of letter to her board. Just plain dumb, if you ask me…

@John Talbert, You sound like an insider!!!

By: bb hart

bb hart — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:46:05 +0000

Diane Mcgraw is a joke.Her staff brought in world class events, she didn’t. Glad to see her go.

By: John Talbert

John Talbert — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:36:47 +0000

Wow, the venom on display here is surprising. The only incompetent person in this equation is sitting at the CVB. McGraw was unwilling to take the shovel fulls of crap coming from the leadership at CVB and the posters here have the gall to say its her fault?
Diane has brought multiple national and even world-class events to Louisville. The CVB didn’t like that she was stealling its thunder, so rather than work together to better position Louisville they fought among themselves and everyone loses.
Diane’s e-mail missive was unprofessional and enough to justify her dismissal, can’t be argued. But when you have a Board that is too spineless to stand-up for its executive leadership, after repeatedly seeing that CVB was unwilling to play well with others, what was the alternative.
Jim Wood should have been canned years ago, and we can only hope his head comes off in the course of all of this. Unfortunately his Board is seemingly uninterested in bettering our community and instead focused exclusively on putting more heads in beds, and nothing else that might benefit our fair city.

By: 402kid

402kid — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:00:53 +0000

The Sports Commission is nothing but trouble with 50 Executives and Board members. They won’t be able to get anything done. They bring in someone retired from the “thriving” horse industry. Real smart

By: Carter Burger

Carter Burger — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:45:21 +0000

Actually Kragthorpe, you have accomplished more that she did. You took a football team that had “national contender” written all over it and sunk them into the basement in one season. You took a team fresh off of their first BCS bowl win and saw to it they didn’t go to another bowl during your tenure. See? So don’t feel so bad.

By: Ask for Jim Wood's resignation

Ask for Jim Wood's resignation — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:40:22 +0000

And then all is fair!

By: Bruce Maples

Bruce Maples — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:13:17 +0000

Apparently, all the posters so far on this story are insiders who know all the details of job performance, political games, and butt-kissing at numerous agencies and companies throughout the city.

All I know is what I read in the papers and on various web sites, and whatever this woman may or may not have done, she got embarrassed by her boss in public, apparently more than once. That gives him a black eye as well, in my opinion.

If you have a problem with someone reporting to you, coach in private, praise in public. If that doesn’t work, coach a little more forcefully in private. If that doesn’t work, put them on an improvement plan. If that doesn’t work, fire them.

But don’t knowingly embarrass them in public, and then say there’s “nothing wrong” when asked by them. That’s just passive-aggressive.

One other thing I know — never send something by email that is complicated or emotional. Do it in person. If she wanted the support of her board in her relationship with Jim Wood, then she should have waited till after vacation and met with them to discuss it. In private.

I’m not sure I see anyone coming out of this looking like an adult.

By: Dumb Diane McGraw

Dumb Diane McGraw — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:15:22 +0000

She didn’t resign, she got fired!!!!!! She got fired because the Board of GLSC got smart and realized they had a dud on their hands after paying her a big fat salary for 2 years and nothing was accomplished by her. She didn’t bring one event here. All those were brought by her predecessor. What comes around goes around. Karma is a bitch isn’t it Diane.

By: Business as Usual

Business as Usual — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:03:02 +0000

I guess it wasn’t “business as usual”.

Dumb Diane got canned. But Karl Scmitt kissed enough butts among the city leaders to get what he wanted. I give him two years. He couldn’t make it at Churchill after Meeker left. He won’t make it here.