Goodbye Elo and thanks for the laughs.
The rumours of WSL CEO Erik Logan’s tenure coming to an end had been circulating for months. The despair in meetings, the tears, a replacement being openly discussed.
“Santa Monica is a troubled realm,” said our source.
The straw that broke the ol camel’s back, likely, the mutiny of the sport’s three Brazilian world champs over judging criteria at the Surf Ranch Pro and Logan’s response.
As JP Currie wrote in an open letter to Logan,
I wish to address your recent letter, written in response to the judging criticisms from Surf Ranch.
Once again, you respond to criticism of the WSL (from your athletes, no less, your most valuable commodity) with a tone that lies somewhere between a dictator and a domestic abuser.
“It is an important reminder to us all that words have consequence,” you write.
Let’s ignore the poor sentence construction for the moment and focus on the sentiment. Words do have consequences, Mr Logan, they absolutely do. And of course you well know this, because when you’re not wielding corporate psychobabble like a weapon, you’re spinning language into something so inconsequential it might as well be gossamer on a breeze.
I would suggest the words of your athletes are not just words in the way you understand them. Rather, it’s their voices, and you might do well to listen to them.
Now, in a brusque sorta press release from the WSL and just loosed to the press and WSL athletes, it writes:
Today, the World Surf League (WSL) announced that CEO Erik Logan has departed the company, effective immediately. As the WSL begins the process of identifying a new CEO, Emily Hofer, WSL’s Chief People and Purpose Officer, and Bob Kane, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Legal Officer, will jointly lead the company and continue to drive the WSL’s mission to showcase the world’s best surfers on the world’s best waves as the global home of competitive surfing.”
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Not InTurmoil…finally clean house, he was not a surfer and was ruining the sport…. I think Bethany should run it lol…… The WSL was sucking so hard , poor judges, killed off Hawaii events, mid tour scramble , finals at Trestles, Kook announcers, Kook surf spots, and the whole judgeing for the guys they want not whos the best….. SO LONG ELO dont let The Surfboard crack you in the head on the way out ….. You wont be missed at all
-from Real Surfers
Heres an idea hire real surfers to run the WSL …..ex Pro’s
Go WOKE go BROKE… Oprah is an evil elite p€D0-cabal puppet. Like the demoncrap uniparty puppet politicians, they are all involved in child trafficking. Lets hope the new CEO is not a woke commie globalist corp puppet. Pray its a good hearted man. Pro surfers BEWARE!!!!
They will put queer men in womens surfing as well…. share their locker rooms and bathrooms. Is that what y’all think is “fair” and “inclusive”.
Demoralizing commie clowns, nothing more. Beware folks…
I personally love the eloquent wordsmith. Oh so sweet..
Gosh, if one of Oprah’s lackeys can’t run the WSL, who can? Koby Abberton maybe? Can’t promote Barton to CEO, ya canned him last year. Guess Jack Robinson is finally breathing a sigh of relief.
Remember when ELO was in charge of the Opie and Anthony show?
Wow, imagine having “Chief People and Purpose Officer” of the WSL on your resume… also imagine working at a company where the Chief People And Purpose Officer is the second in command… totally signs of a well run, healthy organization.
very wise observation JS, very wise…
Does Elo quit “surfing” after this? Will he hang up his suit and paddle and get a road bike or a pair of rollerblades? He looks like the perfect road biker to me. When he gets screamed at by a motorist trying not to add vehicular manslaughter to their resume he can scream back some corpo jargon about synergies and vectors leaving them confused for the remainder of the day
Elo who?
The timing, swiftness of the termination and lack of succession plan would suggest a HR issue or at least some form of breach of contract.
Time to put up or shut up chas and dls
It shows what a small operation the wsl is having a coo role and and chief legal counsel role bundled together.
Maybe Kelly will do it? Do your sources have any info on who they are interviewing?
Would be a pretty boss retirement move…
My favorite Elo moment is still when he absolutely played Chas and DLS when they had him on the podcast. He totally saw past their endless complaints straight to their desire for access and influence, dangled that carrot and had em’ eating out of his palm in short time. Sure they were able to stay dedicated to their anti everything WSL campaign, but that’s mostly what they’re good at, complaining to highlight they know better. Getting fired from the WSL will only have upside for ELO.
The key question here is whether they have learned their lesson, as 50 yr olds, to maintain their journalistic integrity.
Also pretty sure it was all chas not Derek.
Cut the seppo bull shit Chas! You yanks crap on and crap on ….can’t count the amount of times you were advocating his downfall Along with governing body that is the shit show we know as WSL
Me suspects some Sarge-like skullduggery in Brazil #takeyourtrunksoff
Seems like a case of ‘closest and least incompetent while we figure out what the fuck we are doing’ – again the absence of 2IC JMD is telling
The people!
JMD, our new Fearless Leader. Can’t wait.
TC has been going about it really strategically. In breach of contract cases, the injured party has a legal duty to mitigate damages and take reasonable steps to avoid losses and consequences they might claim as damages suffered. Proceeding forward, Tucker has placed himself in a very strong position.
Get Tucker’s pencil dick out of your mouths, you’ll give it a rash