What exactly did Rip run? He lost his starting job by a vote but showed commitment to win it back and did.
After the CB episode, it was all Rip. Backing him up was Sheed and Tay with Stuckey as the "hog on ice". Dyess floated in and out with his standard acquiescence and covered everyone's ass with rebounding. Kwame played his usual game of understanding...knowing that his power is in snookering the flight of the cake. AI was somewhere out there. And like an old Roger Corman movie, the greenhouse plant (fed by the likes of JN) became a gigantic team impulsion that resulted in Rip's incitement that shouted, "FEED ME". Not to worry. Somehow, Corman would have understood (born in Detroit); since he also played the game of destroying his talent and ignoring everyone who was associated with it.
