CEO Mike Dee leaving the Dolphins

Mike Dee Leaving the Dolphins

Going to San Diego to be CEO of the Padres.

Two things I wonder about immediately:
1. Did he leave because his position may have been directly tied to Ireland's? Or did he believe his work is done here?
2. Whose taking his place?

I guess Ill really figure out how I feel about this once I see who his replacement is. If I feel his replacement is an upgrade I wont be upset.

Shoot, you beat me by a couple of minutes.

As I said a while ago, Mike Dee appears to be a failed experiment for Miami.

And nothing of value was lost.

Armando has some more information.

The Dolphins' business model is to split the franchise into a football operations side run by General Manager Jeff Ireland and a business side that is run by the CEO. Both answer to owner Stephen Ross but not each other.

A club source with knowledge Ross's thinking said the club will continue that model going forward. The club has already hired New Jersey based Turnkey Sports as a headhunter to help in the search for Miami's next CEO.

That search has already taken its initial steps and the Dolphins source said while there is no official timetable for filling Dee's vacancy, the club hopes to have a new CEO in place sometime before the end of the 2013 season if not by the time it begins. Dee said he would stay on the next 2-4 weeks to help the Dolphins transition to the next CEO.

http://miamiherald.typepad.com/dolphins_in_depth/2013/07/ceo-mike-dee-leaving-dolphins-for-new-job.html

Just to be clear, I doubt he was fired or told to leave. But I do think there's a mutual aspect to this decision.

"ckparrothead wrote:

Shoot, you beat me by a couple of minutes.

As I said a while ago, Mike Dee appears to be a failed experiment for Miami.

How are we judging Mike Dee's performance? What is he responsible for?

Wasn't Dee in charge of that Gator day with Tebow?

"ckparrothead wrote:

Just to be clear, I doubt he was fired or told to leave. But I do think there's a mutual aspect to this decision.

The SD sounds like a position with more power for him.

"Stringer Bell wrote:

How are we judging Mike Dee's performance? What is he responsible for?

The business side of the Dolphins. The stadium deal and their strategies for getting that done. Winning Super Bowl bids. Business ventures.

"byroan wrote:

Wasn't Dee in charge of that Gator day with Tebow?

Yes

Well, he didn't seem to break anything while he was here. More of a baseball guy anyway, we got him from the BoSox right?

"ckparrothead wrote:

The business side of the Dolphins. The stadium deal and their strategies for getting that done. Winning Super Bowl bids. Business ventures.

Guess he didn't fix anything either! LOL!

"ckparrothead wrote:

The business side of the Dolphins. The stadium deal and their strategies for getting that done. Winning Super Bowl bids. Business ventures.

Right, but how are we judging his performance on the business side of those ventures? Did he do a good job with his responsibilities for the stadium deal? I think his position is one where we really know very little about what he is doing. There is so much involved with the business side of a sports team.

Here's just some of the things that have happened since Mike Dee took over:

1. Orange Carpet
2. T-Pain song
3. Attendance falls to lows
4. Local television ratings fall to lows
5. Gator Day on the day Tim Tebow is quarterbacking the opposing team
6. Failed Super Bowl presentations
7. Botched proposal for stadium improvements funding

I'm not painting the guy as the anti-Christ or anything. I'm sure some of that wasn't his fault. But it hasn't been a good run.

"ckparrothead wrote:

The business side of the Dolphins. The stadium deal and their strategies for getting that done. Winning Super Bowl bids. Business ventures.

I don't understand, what did he fail at that was his fault?

"ckparrothead wrote:

Here's just some of the things that have happened since Mike Dee took over:

1. Orange Carpet
2. T-Pain song
3. Attendance falls to lows
4. Local television ratings fall to lows
5. Gator Day on the day Tim Tebow is quarterbacking the opposing team
6. Failed Super Bowl presentations
7. Botched proposal for stadium improvements funding

I'm not painting the guy as the anti-Christ or anything. I'm sure some of that wasn't his fault. But it hasn't been a good run.

I don't blame him for 3,4,6, and 7

Also, and anyone can feel free to actually look this stuff up as I don't have the time or patience, but I've seen some suggestions that the Dolphins' handling of the stadium funding thing was less than deft. They don't want a vote, then suddenly they do want a vote, not getting things done in time to ensure a proper vote, etc.

I mean you can blame all of this stuff on Steve Ross but Mike Dee was supposed to be the guy spearheading all of this and making sure it goes down as smoothly and effectively as possible. Whatever happened, however you want to place the blame whether it be on Will Weatherford or others, it did not go down smoothly or effectively and Steve Ross lost millions on a vote that never even happened, and that all indications are he would have lost even if it had happened.

"djphinfan wrote:

I don't blame him for 3,4,6, and 7

Based on what?

You think Gator Day was Jeff Ireland's or Joe Philbin's idea? You think they were the ones spearheading the process for getting public funding for the stadium?

"ckparrothead wrote:

Based on what?

You think Gator Day was Jeff Ireland's or Joe Philbin's idea? You think they were the ones spearheading the process for getting public funding for the stadium?

gator day was #5, I didnt list that..

As far as the stadium proposal, I respected his vision.

I call dibs on being first person to bring Carl Peterson's name into this.

This is why I love twitter. People recounting various epic fails that had to fall under Dee's purview.

Among the ones just brought up was that ridiculous half time contest where they were going to have normal people try and kick a 50 yard field goal or something like that and if they did it they won a big prize. Which is crazy because there are still NFL place kickers out there that you don't trust to try and make 50 yard field goals. The Dolphins had to nix the idea before it happened because of the idea being so obviously fail.

"ckparrothead wrote:

Here's just some of the things that have happened since Mike Dee took over:

1. Orange Carpet
2. T-Pain song
3. Attendance falls to lows
4. Local television ratings fall to lows
5. Gator Day on the day Tim Tebow is quarterbacking the opposing team
6. Failed Super Bowl presentations
7. Botched proposal for stadium improvements funding

I'm not painting the guy as the anti-Christ or anything. I'm sure some of that wasn't his fault. But it hasn't been a good run.

These are all pretty isolated and random issues. I think its pretty ridiculous to base an evaluation of the CEO on Gator Day or the orange-carpet stuff. JMO.