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March 4, 2016The Revenge of the Harvard Nerds in Cleveland will not be featuring a leading role of Alec Scheiner. The splashy executive hire by the Cleveland Browns after the Haslam family bought the team has apparently run its course like so many other hires before him as Alec Scheiner is “stepping away from his position,” according to a release from the Browns.
Alec Scheiner is stepping away from his position as President of the Cleveland Browns as of March 31, 2016 and will continue to serve as a consultant to the team through the end of 2016.
“We greatly appreciate Alec’s commitment and work as President of the Cleveland Browns,” said Browns Owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam. “Alec is extremely capable and has helped us establish some very positive inroads with a significant focus on our fan experience, FirstEnergy Stadium and our business partners. He was integral to the rebuild of our organization, the renovations of our stadium and training facility, and many of our strategies on the football side of our business. His guidance has helped us accelerate our learning curve as NFL owners and that is something we will always appreciate. Alec is ready for the next challenge in his career, as our new structure would limit the opportunity for his leadership. He is one of the most talented executives in the industry, and we are fully confident that Alec will be successful in whatever permanent role he takes next. We wish him and his family only the best.”
This won’t come as a shock to most. When the Browns elevated Sashi Brown to his position, I wrongly indicated that I thought Alec Scheiner’s fingerprints were all over the move. I figured that Scheiner — the guy I first met at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference — would have been winning his way inside Berea when the Browns elevated an attorney and contract specialist to the top of roster control. No sooner had I written that, but I got some indications from people in the know that, to the contrary, Scheiner might not be long for the Cleveland Browns at all and would be lucky to survive the winter. More so: The team wouldn’t fire Scheiner; he’d have to leave on his own.
Today, those suspicions proved correct.
So, what happened? It’s tough to say for sure, but it seems pretty reasonable to assume that a more involved Dee Haslam has potentially stepped up to the point that his job was rendered far less useful. Where Jimmy Haslam was having everyone answer to him, it hasn’t gone unnoticed that Dee Haslam has inserted herself into the operations to a much more intense degree. (For the record, I’ve heard nothing but good things about this increased involvement for what that’s worth.)
Alas, Alec Scheiner is exploring other opportunities and his words are pretty boilerplate, “THANKS!”
“I have had an incredible experience with the Browns,” said Scheiner. “Cleveland is amazing and the fans are uniquely passionate. I want to thank Dee and Jimmy Haslam for the opportunity to do what I truly love: rebuilding an organization with a group of people who have shown unparalleled hard work, commitment to their team and city. I look forward to helping the Browns over the next several months as I determine my next challenge.”
We’ll see where he lands next. Maybe he can pull a reverse-DePodesta and jump to some other sport.
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Alec wasn’t allowed to do more football stuff, so he is leaving.
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MANNING
Great job Alec, good effort. Can you take your uniforms with you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfvVlYEiYws
Jimmy realized he hates the uni’s as much as everyone else.
Welp, maybe a little something more. Anybody have any idea what this might be?
The Joe Lull stuf…..
I heard it was a number of things, mostly office bathroom related no-nos:
1. He would sit in the bathroom stall whistling and watching videos on his phone with the sound up.
2. He’d refuse to give courtesy flushes
3. He’d be found brushing his teeth in the bathroom at least 4 times a day.
4. In his office, he’d play Huey Lewis really loud all day.
I’m not sure what that is.
http://www.dawgsbynature.com/2015/12/1/9826016/former-cleveland-radio-personality-joe-lull-accuses-browns-of
Just clearing office space for Peyton once the sexual harassment talk dies down.
I would also add:
5. Allowed splatter to hit the floor in front of urinals
Jeez, how did I miss that story? That definitely paints an ugly picture of what could have happened here with Scheiner.
To do what? Oversee ticket sales, merch, stadium events, etc? That was Scheiner’s role with the team.
That was my assumption to, but I didn’t realize there was a sexual harrassment angle that is possible here. UGLY.
Adios, and take those ugly-ass uniforms with you.
Why let him stick around then? Wtf man
Be nice to be able to get paid big bucks to come up with something new and just change color to darker brown… Almost like he forgot to do his job and last minute was like oh crap
Jason McIntyre has a very suspect personal history and should never be followed for any matter of any importance. Just a younger, more usless, unimaginintve clone of Screamin A and Skip Bayless. Let’s never use him again.
NO MORE WIENER DOG RACES?!?!
What’s also funny is McIntyre pretends to be chummy with Anthony Lima, who used to prop his old sports blog on TheBigLead. Conversely, Lima, when having a lazy day at the job, just takes post after post from TheBigLead as conversation fodder when he is on-air.
McIntyre, who hilariously wrote an article about media sites using too much aggregation, is a notorious hack who somehow made a career out of cherrypicking other’s work with poor attribution as “blogging”.
Go listen to his awful Yahoo show sometime and then admit to using him as a media source. Outrageously uniformed.
I was unaware. Thank you.
He kind of has that Darren Rovell awfulness stink to him, but is a schemer and crafty enough to be successful.
Sexual harassment you say? Tell me more as I don’t know any more.
I hadn’t heard that!
This is supposedly why Joe Lull was calling out the Browns on Twitter back in December. Looks like it could have been that, or it could have been a sexual act occurring in the office… I’m not sure which one.