Has ERC Leadership "Lost the Locker Room?"

It's an expression that comes from sports.

It describes a situation in which the coach of a team has lost the capacity to lead a team because his leadership has been rejected by the players.

The players will still take the field. They'll run the plays or, at least, play the positions the coach puts them in but do it without conviction or serious effort, orexpectation of victory.

Sometimes the players will grumble openly about the coach and his methods. Sometimes they'll complain quietly among themselves. Other times, there will be increasing apathy as the entire team, from the players on up to the coaching staff, experience loss after loss.

I think that the expression "lost the locker room" has described the ERC for some time.

For how long? From sometime before the 2015 old new Strategic Plan was launched with enthusiasm by ERC leaders (the coaching staff), and unanimously approved by the team, i.e., the Conference in session...

...only to immediately become mere words on a page.

The scant reporting I've received from the Town Hall meetings designed to gin up support, enthusiasm and participation in 2017 new New Strategic Plan suggests that the meetings have been bland and, compared to the meetings to promote the first Strategic Plan, back in Ed's day, poorly attended.

It seems to me that the ERC is on pace to repeat its long history of talking as if the talk is the walk.

Its the story of the coach who has lost the locker room presenting the game plan and posting the line up when it was inevitable that the team would simply go through the motions with no expectation that it might even possibly win.

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Can a lost locker room be won back?

I don't know.

I've been following sports since I was a four year old sitting on grandpa Sloat's knee listening to the radio and, occasionally, watching TV as the Phillies drudged their way through 100+ loss seasons one after another.

I suppose its possible to win back a lost locker room...

...but I've seen a lot of locker rooms lost and, honestly, can't recall one that was redeemed.

It may happen, but it doesn't happen often.

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I will say this.

I noted in an earlier post, in a comment directed to Kevin, Dave and Chuck specifically, that many people in the ERC disrespect them but that the disrespect is directed more toward what they represent than to them personally.

And, in that, there may be a chance to win back the lost locker room.

But, ERC leaders are not doing the things that will win the locker room back for them...

...for us, too.

There can be no future for the ERC without repentance.