04-26-2025, 06:21 PMbluesfan55 Wrote: current minnesota player here - i'm going to definitely rehash some of the points mentioned earlier but bear with me.

we backed waters 100%. minnesota had an incredibly rough off-season, with eddie stepping down and potentially being bullied off site and some trade stuff as well. yet waters handled it brilliantly, revived the discord (which had been pretty quiet for a little bit), restored positivity at a time when we desperately needed it, and as a result got backing from all of us. we were really excited to see where the team would go - it felt like we were building something special, and would finally return the monarchs to relevance for the first time in 5 years or however long it's been. that's why cord's hiring took us all by surprise. HO hiring a current member of HO over the team's interim GM, who had substantial backing from the team, is an awful look. i'm aware of cord's experience gming in other leagues, and why he was seen as the better applicant. but this did NOT have the reaction HO was hoping it would
have. the hiring, whether intentional or not, reeks of nepotism. team buy-in is going to be low, and none of it is cord's fault, which i feel awful about - he doesn't deserve to walk into a situation this shitty. but it feels like HO ruined the team's forward momentum. waters is gone, which sucks. multiple users who have been active in the lr and wanted waters as gm are going to request trades. it's not going to be easy for minnesota to recover from the fact that numerous influential members within the team are so disillusioned with this result that they want to play somewhere else.

I agree with what you say here bro I still support the team, and now that I have cooled off some steam I now fully understand why ho hired cord and I support the decision, will this change my decision: no, but now I see why Ho decided to go with cord and I have nothing against ho or cord, this just caught me by surprise and made me frustrated at the time.