Paraag Marathe Thread

Originally posted by dtg_9er:
Chief Operating Officer is not a HOFO. He is an operations guy, business guy. They still need a veteran of the NFL exec wars to help educate Jed and Trent. Paraag is trusted by the Yorks and takes good care of their money, why not promote him? But, he does not belong in the HOFO position because he does not have contacts around the NFL that would help Trent and Jim.

I read a report yesterday that said his job will now be almost exclusively on the business side, very little to do with football. That is just fine for Marathe.

As you say, they still need a John McVay, a football guy who knows the league. The fact they haven't named one yet shows how hard they are to find, and that they aren't going to settle for just anyone.

Originally posted by dj43:

Originally posted by dtg_9er:
Chief Operating Officer is not a HOFO. He is an operations guy, business guy. They still need a veteran of the NFL exec wars to help educate Jed and Trent. Paraag is trusted by the Yorks and takes good care of their money, why not promote him? But, he does not belong in the HOFO position because he does not have contacts around the NFL that would help Trent and Jim.

I read a report yesterday that said his job will now be almost exclusively on the business side, very little to do with football. That is just fine for Marathe.

As you say, they still need a John McVay, a football guy who knows the league. The fact they haven't named one yet shows how hard they are to find, and that they aren't going to settle for just anyone.

It's hard to find a guy who has great contacts and knowledge but doesn't want to run the team! My sense is that there are many ex-GM types who would have given Machiavelli a run for his money.

Over-analysis at it's fan forum best. He's a Business guy and runs the business side of the team. Football is a business. If you see Paraag on the sideline yelling at coaches and players, I could see some reason to not like him. He's done a fine job with the salary cap and managing contracts and money.

Originally posted by darkknight49:
Over-analysis at it's fan forum best. He's a Business guy and runs the business side of the team. Football is a business. If you see Paraag on the sideline yelling at coaches and players, I could see some reason to not like him. He's done a fine job with the salary cap and managing contracts and money.

lol resign nate! draft Cam Newton, write the check. And thank god its no longer alex!

Originally posted by Shaj:

Originally posted by Niners99:

Originally posted by StOnEy333:
Honestly, I think people don't like him because he's Indian (IIRC). People just don't think that an Indian should be running an American sports team, for whatever reason.

lol what?? Race has NOTHING to do with it. It's the fact that a nerdy stanford number cruncher is being given power in the football aspect. He should only be dealing with contracts and numbers, because that's what he's good at.

Stoney, the guy is a kid with zero football experience. If he was so good to skyrocket up our management depth chart like this, don't you think other teams would have made an attempt, any attempt at all, to land this guy? Beuller? Beuller?

I'll be so relieved whenever the 49ers become a good team again. When they were a good team before, we never had to hear endless blah blah blah about people who work in the office.

Originally posted by susweel:

Originally posted by StOnEy333:
Honestly, I think people don't like him because he's Indian (IIRC). People just don't think that an Indian should be running an American sports team, for whatever reason.

There is some truth to what you are saying.


The reason I would have a problem with it is because he is not a football dude. He seems like a good guy to crunch numbers. Other teams have guys like Parcells and Holmgren running the football side of things, and I think that is what we need.


Paraage, McClueless and Sing are the people in charge of our football team.

We saw how all that turned out. Now we have new HC but the other guys in charge are guys who worked under previous failures. Hopefully this turns out better............

It amazes me how people can lump everyone together and blame them for the failures that others were in charge of or the fact that people use facts that do not pertain to the job at hand.

Paraag's job is a number cruncher, he doesn't need to know how good a player is, the GM and coach need only tell him we see this player being as valuable as so and so. then he just crunches the numbers in a creative way that doesn't hurt the team and is fair to the players so that the agents that deal with him later will have an amiable relationship. Look at how he handled Willis and Davis. No bruhaha-no one upset, no drama in the media.

He crunches number-you going have a head coach or gm do an accountants job? Would you have have a head coach do your taxes and investments? Silly

Originally posted by WildBill:
It amazes me how people can lump everyone together and blame them for the failures that others were in charge of or the fact that people use facts that do not pertain to the job at hand.

Paraag's job is a number cruncher, he doesn't need to know how good a player is, the GM and coach need only tell him we see this player being as valuable as so and so. then he just crunches the numbers in a creative way that doesn't hurt the team and is fair to the players so that the agents that deal with him later will have an amiable relationship. Look at how he handled Willis and Davis. No bruhaha-no one upset, no drama in the media.

He crunches number-you going have a head coach or gm do an accountants job? Would you have have a head coach do your taxes and investments? Silly

I hear what you are saying....but hear me out. When Marathe was brought on board originally, wasnt his job a "number cruncher" as you put it? Correct me if I am wrong here, but I thought thats what his job was from day 1.

Well since day 1, he has been promoted twice. If he was just a "number cruncher" like he was from the start, what is he being promoted to? You dont get promoted twice if you are doing the same job you did from the start.

Obviously this is just speculation, but if he was here to do ONE job, there wouldnt be the need to promote the guy at all, let alone twice.

Originally posted by NinerGM:

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:

Originally posted by Shaj:

Originally posted by Niners99:

Originally posted by StOnEy333:
Honestly, I think people don't like him because he's Indian (IIRC). People just don't think that an Indian should be running an American sports team, for whatever reason.

lol what?? Race has NOTHING to do with it. It's the fact that a nerdy stanford number cruncher is being given power in the football aspect. He should only be dealing with contracts and numbers, because that's what he's good at.

Stoney, the guy is a kid with zero football experience. If he was so good to skyrocket up our management depth chart like this, don't you think other teams would have made an attempt, any attempt at all, to land this guy? Beuller? Beuller?

Let's be clear here: football is a business. Age doesn't mean much when you look to see who are some of the brightest business minds to achieve some serious success in the business community. I would want the smartest business mind negotiating contracts, negotiating with local communities, and using his rolodex to find sponsors to help me build my new stadium. This assumption that you need to understand X and Os or be a talent evaluator to understand an know how to manipulate the salary cap or convince Coke or PepsiCo to award the 49ers an exclusive right to sell deal at the new stadium is necessary to have a good football organization is false.

No, you don't need to know X's and O's, but it is kind of important to have.....you know....."experience" to be a COO of an NFL franchise.

Great hire from an operations standpoint.

But he now has no business being in the coaches booth on Sundays.

Originally posted by GEEK:
Great hire from an operations standpoint.

But he now has no business being in the coaches booth on Sundays.

I dunno, I think he's done a decent job in the booth.

-9fA

Love the hire. The dude is a high performer and has results. He puts together amazing contracts that always give the organization flexibility.

Love the way the the front office is shaping up.

Originally posted by 80sbaby24:

Originally posted by WildBill:
It amazes me how people can lump everyone together and blame them for the failures that others were in charge of or the fact that people use facts that do not pertain to the job at hand.

Paraag's job is a number cruncher, he doesn't need to know how good a player is, the GM and coach need only tell him we see this player being as valuable as so and so. then he just crunches the numbers in a creative way that doesn't hurt the team and is fair to the players so that the agents that deal with him later will have an amiable relationship. Look at how he handled Willis and Davis. No bruhaha-no one upset, no drama in the media.

He crunches number-you going have a head coach or gm do an accountants job? Would you have have a head coach do your taxes and investments? Silly

I hear what you are saying....but hear me out. When Marathe was brought on board originally, wasnt his job a "number cruncher" as you put it? Correct me if I am wrong here, but I thought thats what his job was from day 1.

Well since day 1, he has been promoted twice. If he was just a "number cruncher" like he was from the start, what is he being promoted to? You dont get promoted twice if you are doing the same job you did from the start.

Obviously this is just speculation, but if he was here to do ONE job, there wouldnt be the need to promote the guy at all, let alone twice.

Read the article on Paraag-he was a number cruncher and still is a number cruncher. Just that he is crunching more numbers of different aspects of the business, he now has more responsibilities thus the promotion.

Originally posted by GEEK:
Great hire from an operations standpoint.

But he now has no business being in the coaches booth on Sundays.

Why not, he is part of the team, if they have room or they ask him to help with something. Besides you don't know what he is doing up there. He may have been asked to help record numbers like how many times they pass in this area, how many times they run off tackle to the left and right, how many times they run on 1st, 2nd and third, etc. Don't need a football man to input data to a computer programed to analyze things. that is still number crunching.

Now if you got proof that he is telling them to run this play or that def., that is something else, but there is no proof of that.