Regardless of the pain, despair and embarrassment, the West Indies Cricket Board, would not be moved. It is as if they have thicker skins than the largest alligators from our forested highlands.
For despite the sorrow and gnashing of teeth by the thousands of fans from Jamaica to Guyana, they have done absolutely nothing to counter the humiliation the West Indies team brought upon the once-proud cricket nation of territories last weekend in Jamaica and again yesterday in Trinidad.
Instead, the Board has dismissed the thrashing meted out by England in the first Cable and Wireless Test as if it's business as usual.
The playing squad remained the same and not a word has been uttered by anyone from the WICB executive about corrective measures, despite the team falling deeper into the category of world cricket chumps in crashing to its lowest score ever in history.
The fact that injured Fidel Edwards is not in the squad and has been replaced by his half-brother Pedro Collins, cannot be considered a change technically, because it had nothing to do with performance.
Otherwise, the selectors have not lifted a finger in anger, and worse yet the board has been mute in making any attempt to at least appease the devastated West Indian public.
Had the board been a professionally-run organization by name and action, someone would've been feeling the heat in full force by now.
Yet, the suffering public have been given the same squad for the current second Test following a useless apology by the manager and words of disappointment from the board president. Fans though, hardly want to hear apologies and feelings of disappointment, they want decisive action.
Short of a complete re-organization of key areas within the team and its management, the least the WICB could've done was order an immediate investigation of the debacle and set out probationary guidelines for the remainder of the series.
And believe you me, there are numerous wrongs that need righting in this team. One can start with the players themselves and their minuscule level of individual commitment to improving their standard of play.
It is clearly obvious that the team has not been playing to its potential for a long time simply because those players who are treated like professionals, hardly behave as such. As a result they lack the consistency necessary for success at the highest level.
The obvious lack of cohesiveness among the management and captain should have been sorted out immediately on the team's return from South Africa, but from all indications nothing improved before and during Jamaica. Indeed, the South Africa disaster is fresh in everybody's minds.
One can only conclude that the WICB is satisfied with the fact that their team failed to even hint of putting the home team under pressure in losing three of four Tests and having to stave off a final-day defeat to avert another clean sweep, in the third match.
Surely much soul-searching is needed for a team which conceded 500 totals or more on four occasions and could only dismiss South Africa twice in four games. And also for going under for less than 100 runs for the second time in two months after a similar such failure in the one-day series there. That tour was almost as disastrous as the first visit by a Caribbean team to the continent in 1998/1999.
The stories of almost total chaos within the management set-up, with everyone seemingly doing as they please, was a recipe for failure which eventually played out. Much has been made of the sighting of Ramnaresh Sarwan and company in or around the party Mound Stand at Sabina Park minutes after he copped a pair and his team shot out for a record- low 47.
Whether they were there to party or not is still unclear, but more importantly, the fact that the entire team was not together immediately after their disastrous batting for a severe tongue-lashing by someone in authority, is a serious indictment on the team-leaders.
It leaves one to wonder if there is any one person in charge of the squad's cricketing affairs. In any other sports team coach Gus Logie should be that person but from all appearances the title of coach is severely misused in his case. This is an area of grave concern that should've been sorted out immediately after the South Africa tour especially in the light of swirling allegations about captain Lara unilaterally sacking bowling coach Kenny Benjamin by barring him from working with the fast bowlers.
And also of him demeaning the position of Vivian Richards's chairman of selectors' title by unilaterally changing the final 11 without discussion, only minutes before the fourth Test in South Africa.
Then there are the allegations of players seen partying into the wee hours of last Sunday, only hours before they were required to bat against England. This follows hot on the heels of an alleged similar occurrence in South Africa.
In explaining, manager Ricky Skerritt pleaded ignorance, offering the lame excuse of being unable to monitor players at night. Instead of promising a probe, Skerritt gave the impression that it matters not whether players are in a state to battle properly on the field. Small wonder that Skerritt announced his resignation yesterday.
Indeed, Lara's annoying captaincy decisions on the field, that often times are likened to kindergarten cricket, have bewildered commentators from Cape town to Kingston and urgently need reviewing.
All of the said atrocities were obviously not bad enough for the WICB to act immediately.
Why an emergency meeting with all the stake-holders involved with a view to righting the many wrongs, was not called after Jamaica, says a lot about the competence of this body.
This type of foot-dragging has no place in sport administration these days even if it is an occurrence in the West Indies.
Instead, fans seem set to be put through the agony of having to wait until England would have won a Test series in the region for the first time in 36 years, before any action is taken. The West Indian people do not deserve this type of treatment, they have already suffered enough .