Just read Curtis Stock's take on Dan Kepley's resignation. It's insightful, contextual and passionate, as I expect from one of his berg's premier play pen scribblers. I wish he surfaced more often, in the paper and on line. 
I don't agree with Stock's take. The organization owed Kepley some thing for his distinguished service. I agree the Eskimos Way is done. That's a good thing. It isn't working. There's a glut of nostalgia selling by our pro sports teams. It needs to end. Kepley's resignation did that with the thundering resonance of one of his shuddering tackles.
I know Danny, too, not as well as Curtis. Well enough to know his resignation, though dramatic is exactly what the organization needs. The "Eskimos Way" a legacy left by his coach, Hugh Campbell, is tired forlorn navel gazing, backwards. It's not Dan Kepley's way. It's a legacy the organization has taken too long to jettison.
There's only conjecture, speculation and innuendo, as to the real reason why he resigned. When he tells us, we'll know. Curtis, when one is not happy in their employ, for whatever reason, and tells the boss, the situation is untenable. I resign. The door slams hard and fast. It caught my butt, in a couple of sports gigs in this town. One thing about the boss, right or wrong, he is.
Kepley's resignation is a catalyst, the neutron dressing room clearing bomb to move the Eskimos forward. Kepley, as he has always, puts the team ahead of himself. There's a message for those left behind. Lead. Do the right thing, when it is hard to do. As the saying goes, it doesn't matter what happens. What matters is what you do.
So Curtis, when you tee it up with #42 next week. Ask him if he believes the organization owes him one. My bet, he says no.
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