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Sports franchises are notorious for hiring retread coaches/managers. Just today, Rick Adelman was named the "new" coach of the NBA Houston Rockets. He was previously fired or asked not to return by Portland, Golden State and Sacramento. He was the only candidate inteviewed by Houston. This does not sound like a very innovative way to do business. If Sun behaved the same way as the NBA, Jonathan Schwartz would have never had a chance to become CEO. Jeffrey Skilling would have had a better chance to be the new CEO, just because he has already served in that capacity before. Of course now he is serving a jail term, but he still has that CEO experience. I'm glad that Sun does not use the same hiring criteria for leadership as sports does, where it appears that it is more important to have experience as opposed to having any skill to be successful in your job.