Former DIII wrote:
rojo wrote:
How are they being smeared? A group called the Tinman elite fired their coach Tinman. Some people think tha'ts a good move, some people don't and others think it's a good move but feel personally for Schwartz. People then started talking about it. Tom's wife has now poster her version of the story.
I don't get why everyone thinks everything has to be one side or the other. I said a) I think tom is a good coach b) I totally get why Drew might want a new coach. c) Give him his name back.
For some reason in 2021, any criticism is viewed as a smear job. Grow up. No one is perfect.
All relationships eventually end whether through death, divorce, breakup etc.
As for not wanting it to get out ther, that's true. Neither party wanted that. When we heard Tinman was no longer coaching the group, Jonathan called Tom and said he was no longer coach ing but the guys wanted it not talked about until after the Trials and Tom wanted it kept quiet as he was worried it would impact his job search. We tried to honor that request. So we deleted a few threads but I soon realized there was no way this was sustainable. Threads were popping up about it and it was on instragram. It's not right for me to delete factual threads. This news was out there. Someone needed to be the adult in the room and adcknowledge it. Knowing that the relationship was shattered from talking to Jonathan, I tried to help all of them out by reaching out to them and have them take the high road with gracious statements.
I had never spoken to Tom in my life before but called him up, told him what I knew and told him I thought he should issue a statement. That's what he did. I then asked Drew and Joan for a response.
Why people wouldn't expect the public to react to a team that has a huge social media presence dropping their namesake coach is beyond me. If I was Tom or Drew, I 'd just ignore what's written on here.
Now I have since defended Tom's coaching on here as it's clear from talking to him for 30 minutes that he gets running. I don't l ike people bashing one side. I also said it was totally understandably that Drew would leave. Let's stop making this a soap opera.
Tammy came on here and smeared DH and the rest of TME because she was upset about speculation on an anonymous message board.
I think rojo is coming out of this one absolutely smelling of roses having handled it in a very mature, pragmatic and reasonably even way whilst accepting his obvious bias.
I genuinely didnt know there were triplets, lol.