{"id":9257,"date":"2017-04-30T09:12:29","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T14:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=9257"},"modified":"2017-04-30T09:12:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T14:12:29","slug":"auburn-vs-bama-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/04\/30\/auburn-vs-bama-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"Auburn vs \u2018Bama, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the previous post I noted the possible candidacy of Tommy Tuberville, former football coach of Auburn, for the governorship of Alabama. This appears to have come to a halt, as AL.com<\/strong><\/em> reports<\/a>, despite his overwhelming confidence:<\/p>\n

“I think I could make a difference if I do decide\u00a0to run (for governor of Alabama)\u00a0<\/a>because it is all about sales, organization and leadership,” Tuberville said in February. “Some people say you haven’t been in politics. I’ve been in a big part of it. This whole country is politics now.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Which strikes me as a little naive. If the political scene is so bad, why does his experience with it make him a good candidate? Nor does he really say the right things, such as having studied government at a respected institute. And while I don’t make that a necessity, I worry about candidates and winners who can’t see beyond the frontier of their own experience of the world. As noted throughout this blog, using techniques from other sectors is not a guarantee of success in a sector foreign to the techniques original context. That’s a simple, commonsense observation which seems to escape most advocates of moving free enterprise into other sectors.<\/p>\n

And which sector, by the way, would a football coach be considered a part of?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the previous post I noted the possible candidacy of Tommy Tuberville, former football coach of Auburn, for the governorship of Alabama. This appears to have come to a halt, as AL.com reports, despite his overwhelming confidence: “I think I could make a difference if I do decide\u00a0to run (for \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9259,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9257\/revisions\/9259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}