Agreed. He's said it's because the club teams and the expansion of the ngll is taking up too much of his time. If that's the case, why not come out and state that explicitly in his letter to the club team families? I can understand if he wanted to leave that out when addressing the McD community, but doesn't it make sense to go into his business expansion plan a bit more for the club letter? Also, adding the section about 'rumors' being untrue, probably stoked the flames rather than extinguish it, esp during this climate of harassment, etc. These things don't tend to happen overnight and abruptly - unless there's a significant reason for it...