Noé told the Hun that Burke could play SS? That explains everything. Necks.
My bad.
BTW - the fallout was also about Burke as a first round pick. The opinion around baseball at the time was that Burke in the first round was a "reach". If Hun was sure he could play shortstop, he was then okay with it being a first rounder because of the offensive promise. Burke quickly proved he was not a shortstop, had limited offensive skills and had to spend time in Instructional League after a stint in AA to relearn how to hit a baseball. All of which made Hunsicker very annoyed at the whole matter.
But David Lakey was a great leader of the scouting group and his issue with the Hun wasn't entirely about Burke. It was about how the Hun kept the scouting group and the baseball operations side shut out from the entire organization. Hun basically kept much of them away and would not allow for fraternization with the other operations groups, like marketing and PR (business) with his baseball men. Many of them felt they were not being recognized for their work, Dewey Robinson (now the pitching coach on Cecil Cooper's staff) being one of them. Lakey being another.
