Suppose you e-mail "
[email protected]." Your e-mail goes to staff, who may or may not forward the e-mail to Barchi. That's how it's worked under other presidents and other high university officials. By contrast, Dick McCormick, whatever his flaws, could be e-mailed directly if you knew his address, which I did. The same with Wendell Pritchett when he was chancellor at Camden; he gave me his direct e-mail address, which I took as meaning that the staff did not always send him all the e-mail that might interest him.
My guess (and it's just that) is that Hobbs gets a
summary of the daily e-mail, so he probably knows how discouraged and angry the fan base is. Of course, that would be easy for him to figure that out without e-mail. I think the only e-mail that would particularly interest him would be articulate e-mail that has a credible offer of a large donation. I find it hard to believe that Barchi would agree to using a lot of scarce University money to get rid of Ash, as poor a coach as he has proven to be so far.
