Paraag Marathe Thread

"A new scapegoat ?"

Tim Kawakami ‏@timkawakami 2h2 hours ago Tim Kawakami Retweeted Jon Kachiu

Marathe had many roles that nobody in the organization questioned because he was so close to Jed.

Tim Kawakami ‏@timkawakami 32s32 seconds ago Marathe's influence in the 49ers was strong. Many people who know the organization well are stunned by this. Not displeased, but stunned.

"Not displeased but stunned" is a pretty good description. I can't see how anyone who actually wants this team to do well would see this as anything but a positive. They are moving in the right direction, hopefully they follow it up with some more good moves.

Originally posted by highway49:
"A new scapegoat ?"

More like the chief scapegoat-er. McCloughan was convinced that Marathe was the chief source of leaks within the 49ers organization....all the leaks at that time were basically benefiting him in a power struggle with McCloughan...this is the right move, although they probably should have fired the guy altogether.

Originally posted by PopeyeJonesing:

Originally posted by TheWooLick:

I believe this to be 100% incorect. Marathe has been running football operations as team President and was in charge of football operations.

From his official team bio:
Marathe also holds a significant leadership position on the football side.

From his Bloomberg Busienss bio:
Mr. Paraag Marathe serves as President at Forty Niners Football Company LLC and served as its Chief Operating Officer. Previously, Mr. Marathe served as Vice President of Football Operations at San Francisco Forty Niners, Ltd. He spent three seasons as the Director of Football Operations at San Francisco Forty Niners, Ltd.

He has been the head of football operations for awhile.

Yeah, you're reading that wrong. "Marathe also holds a significant leadership position on the football side" means that "in addition" to his role as team president, as both his salary cap work and analytics work happen on the football side.

I agree that some of his job duties that he held onto after being named President are on the football side, but in the 49ers organizational hierarchy "President" is not in charge of or related to football operations. The GM is in charge of football operations and reports directly to York, and the President is in charge of non-football operations and reports directly to York.

So basically, in his role as President Marathe reported to York in the organizational hierarchy, and in his role as contracts, salary cap specialist and analytics director he reported to Baalke.


From Barrows today: http://www.sacbee.com/sports/nfl/san-francisco-49ers/article47927730.html#storylink=cpy

The restructuring is expected to create more of a boundary between the business and football side of the 49ers. The team president oversees everything from stadium operations to human resources to legal affairs. Marathe did that while also handling football-related matters like contracts and the salary cap. Guido is expected to be less involved in football matters than Marathe.

Niners Nation when he was promoted to President: http://www.ninersnation.com/2014/1/21/5332412/49ers-promote-paraag-marathe-team-president-gideon-yu-al-guido-jed-york

Although he started on the football side, Marathe has had a chance to work extensively on the business side of things in recent years.

Even Kawakami used to know this before it became more convenient for him to forget: http://blogs.mercurynews.com/kawakami/2014/01/21/gideon-yu-steps-down-as-49ers-president-paraag-marathe-steps-in-its-jed-yorks-whole-show-now/

* Marathe will have oversight of all departments except football operations, which remains GM Trent Baalke reporting directly to York.

Thanks for that, it is a weird structure., that I hope is corrected in the shakeup.
I still feel like the guy has been involved heavily on the football side for some time with the game guides, the coaching booth work, the coaching hunts including this last one etc.
Now they need a football person to lead the football operations side of things with all football people reporting up to him.

Here's maybe some clarification on the "Option 2" thing from above.

The rumors right now are:

1. This was about a conflict over analytics and in-game strategy between Marathe (in his role as chief of analytics) and Tomsula.

2. This was about a conflict over him leaking things about players (again from his role on the football side) and was a conflict with Tomsula and/or Baalke

3. This was about growing complaints from players and agents (from his role as negotiator and salary cap guy, again on the football side) and was a conflict with Tomsula and/or Baalke.

If ANY of these are true, because Marathe is ALSO President in addition to serving these other duties, the 9ers have their team President getting into scuffles over football operations side things that the President isn't supposed to be involved in, so in response to this York is installing a President (Guido) who has no other involvements on the Football Operations side and who doesn't have to cross over the boundary between Football Operations/GM and President.

Originally posted by Young2Rice:

Originally posted by SunDevilNiner79:

Originally posted by ads_2006:

Originally posted by mustangmele:
I'm a bit ignorant to what Paraag Marathe does a team president. Can someone sum up his job description and duties?

increase money in york's pockets

make them look good

by any means necessary

He is basically Jed's #1 adviser and I really wouldn't be surprised if Paraag had some math behind pushing Harbs out and putting Tomsula in.

Harbaugh probably told him to f**k off more then a few times and went about his busienss cause his focus is football.

Tomsula told him to f**k off and went home like a baby.

I guess next time I see a robbery in progress, I'll tell them to f**k off and go back to focusing on football. Don't wanna be a baby and call the police.

The problem with Marathe is, from the very start of his time with the 49ers, his position never has had a clear job description. His duties were never clearly outlined. I am not sure how many of you remember this, but Ralph Barbieri interviewed Scot McCloughan on KNBR and basically ripped him about Marathe. He kept pressing and pressing on what Paraag's role is and what he is doing in the front office, and SM refused to answer any line of questioning about it. Even back then, PM was being protected by what is obviously instruction from the Yorks not to discuss it.

Makes his reassignment quite odd to me. Clearly PM has been protected by the Yorks for all these years, and now it seems as if he was reassigned to basically protect Jed. This move reeks of a desperation move to get the negative backlash off of Jed and placed elsewhere.

Just my 2 cents....

Originally posted by Phoenix49ers:

Originally posted by highway49:
"A new scapegoat ?"

More like the chief scapegoat-er. McCloughan was convinced that Marathe was the chief source of leaks within the 49ers organization....all the leaks at that time were basically benefiting him in a power struggle with McCloughan...this is the right move, although they probably should have fired the guy altogether.

Bingo...if he's still involved with negotiating contracts then he still has access to "inside" info, which of course he can still leak to the media. Should've been a full and complete "parting" of ways.

Originally posted by Phoenix49ers:
He hasn't said anything contrary to that, he's simply said, along with many others, that regardless of what Marathe's official title might be, he has a tendency to meddle in things on the football operations side.

Yeah, although calling it "meddling" is really dependent on which role Marathe had that you're talking about. My point was that in his role as President it WAS meddling, but in his other roles (salary cap, negotiation, analytics) it was him "doing his job."

The less fancy way to describe this that some conflict emerged, and Jed said, "well, we can't have our team president getting in conflict on football-side things, so we're going to send Marathe back to his football side things where his boss is Baalke and put in a team president who only does work on the non-football side, which is what the President is supposed to do."

Originally posted by TheWooLick:
Thanks for that, it is a weird structure., that I hope is corrected in the shakeup.
I still feel like the guy has been involved heavily on the football side for some time with the game guides, the coaching booth work, the coaching hunts including this last one etc.
Now they need a football person to lead the football operations side of things with all football people reporting up to him.

Yeah, the problem is that he kept all his "football side" duties while also taking a huge promotion on the "non-football" side.

FWIW Football Operations are run by a football person: Trent Baalke. Baalke's contract is up after the 2016 seasons so who knows what happens, but for the 9ers "GM" basically means "President of Football Operations"

Originally posted by DelCed2486:
Bingo...if he's still involved with negotiating contracts then he still has access to "inside" info, which of course he can still leak to the media. Should've been a full and complete "parting" of ways.

I think he's on thin ice as it is......if they've demoted him, the next step would be to fire him if he gets out of line. They already have his replacement inside the building as far as analytics and the salary casp goes.

Originally posted by DelCed2486:
Bingo...if he's still involved with negotiating contracts then he still has access to "inside" info, which of course he can still leak to the media. Should've been a full and complete "parting" of ways.

Yeah, if it's leaking that's causing this, then sending him off to Sacramento about a soccer team is just as good as firing him.

TBF since he's been President he's handed off the day-to-day operations of salary cap (and maybe contract negotiations; I don't remember the name of the guy who's actually running day-to-day) although it's still his name on the masthead.

Originally posted by PopeyeJonesing:

Originally posted by TheWooLick:

Thanks for that, it is a weird structure., that I hope is corrected in the shakeup.
I still feel like the guy has been involved heavily on the football side for some time with the game guides, the coaching booth work, the coaching hunts including this last one etc.
Now they need a football person to lead the football operations side of things with all football people reporting up to him.

Yeah, the problem is that he kept all his "football side" duties while also taking a huge promotion on the "non-football" side.

FWIW Football Operations are run by a football person: Trent Baalke. Baalke's contract is up after the 2016 seasons so who knows what happens, but for the 9ers "GM" basically means "President of Football Operations"

Is that since Marathe took over the president title from Yu?
IMO the 49ers could really use a football operations person above the GM. Someone to buffer between football and Jed.

Originally posted by Phoenix49ers:

Tim Kawakami ‏@timkawakami 2h2 hours ago Tim Kawakami Retweeted Jon Kachiu

Marathe had many roles that nobody in the organization questioned because he was so close to Jed.

Tim Kawakami ‏@timkawakami 32s32 seconds ago Marathe's influence in the 49ers was strong. Many people who know the organization well are stunned by this. Not displeased, but stunned.

"Not displeased but stunned" is a pretty good description. I can't see how anyone who actually wants this team to do well would see this as anything but a positive. They are moving in the right direction, hopefully they follow it up with some more good moves.

I'm guessing this is just self-serving Kawakami BS.

Remember, according to Kawakami Marathe was supposed to be the golden boy and the only untouchable in the organization except for Jed.

Then Marathe gets demoted, and it's another reminder of what everyone already knew: Kawakami is just BSing and never has any idea what's actually going on inside the building.

These nameless "many people" who were "stunned" are providing some pretty nice coverage for Kawakami spending the last two months being wrong as sh!t about who was untouchable in the 9ers org.

Originally posted by PopeyeJonesing:
Yeah, the problem is that he kept all his "football side" duties while also taking a huge promotion on the "non-football" side.

I think the main problem is that he's been with the team for 14 years and throughout most of that time they were terrible. He's had friction with every single head coach that this team has hired, as well as with McCloughan. He might not be the only problem at 49ers HQ, but I would say that outside of the ownership, he's been the biggest one. He clearly had issues with maintaining boundaries and letting the football people do their jobs. The 49ers are all the better for him having less power and control.