I'm not sure how Jackie the Kid will do as Don. Like Jack Tocco, he isn't beloved, but he is capable & has a strong core of loyalists around him.

I wouldn't necc say he was groomed by Jack Tocco, more by his dad Billy Jack, who was beloved. Jack Tocco did take an interest in him, though and agreed that he would be his successor more than a dozen years before it happened so in that way there was some mentorship I guess. Black Jack did officially groom Tony LaPiana, the current Underboss.

It's been a rough start for Jackie the Kid in the boss' (before that acting boss') chair - the whole Frank the Bomb sit didn't play well and has caused him a lot of headaches. The Bomb is eccentric to say the least, but he's hardcore LCN and a hardcore street guy that the street guys on the eastside respected - Jackie the Kid, who is not a 'street guy' I think overlooked that and how "in-check" he had that part of town (which is very working class, opposed to Jackie on the west side).