Professional Sports: A Rebuilding Year Again? ***VANITY***

mukraker

[mukraker]

Is your favorite professional sports team in another "rebuilding year?"

I know the members of FR are a diverse group. I would suspect we have someone with connections to at least one pro team. So I'd like to post a pet theory of mine, and see if anyone has the ability/guts/determination to implement it.

If you take a close look at a championship high school or college team, you'll often find that the team has been a team, working together as a team, for the past 4 years. The players are teammates. They've been working together for 4 years, and they all know their jobs. They know one another's moves. They know where everyone on the team will be during the play. No words need be spoken to tell anyone what to do. They can read one another like a good book.

This sense of TEAM unifies and drives the players, as a team.

So here's the plan: Take a professional sports team that knows it will have one of the infamous rebuilding years. Truly make it a rebuilding year, getting rid of all the overpriced "talent" including even the managers and coaches, if necessary.

Next, go and recruit an entire team of young, hungry, skilled and ambitious players (and coaches/managers, if needed). Tell tem up front what you are up to. Give them all solid garuntees of a four year contract, with a uniform base pay scale plus bonus incentives for performance. Make it a four year deal. But make sure they all know that, at the end of the four years, they must win a championship (be it the Super Bowl, World Series, Stanley Cup or whatevr.) or they will be fired.

Turn them loose and watch them perform for you.

It's just a theory ....

[CSM]

Just hire Joe Dumars and Larry Brown. Then you'll certainly have a team!

[Wristpin]

Mike,


You're way, way off!

http://www.onestopbaseball.com/TeamPayroll.asp

[Asphalt]

yes

[rdb3]

Interesting. You sure your real thesis is politics instead of sports teams? I mean, you wouldn't be trying to slip a double entendre by us, would you?

;-)

[MikefromOhio]

nah I am not that far off...

you generally want a win per every 800,000 grand spent. The Yankees AND the Red Sox won't be getting there....

[Steelerfan]

I'm in Cleveland and agree with you.

And as a Steeler fan I do not mind one little bit.

Greg

[RedwineisJesus]

"""So here's the plan:"""


How many times have I heard, especially in hockey, that winning is all about team work. Forget talent,they say, it's team work that counts.

What hogwash!

The ONLY reason the New York Rangers, with all of their talent, don't win the Stanley Cup every year is because they are professionals and know that the NHL is business. BIG business.

Guess what would happen if the NY Rangers and a few other overtalented teams showed their metal every time they stepped on the ice?

That's right, over 80% of the teams would have to fold, for lack of interest, and we'd be down to the original five again. Or six.

Those were the days my friend.

[Fierce Allegiance]

NASCAR is NOT in a rebuilding year, they are building audience every week.

[Wristpin]

Your a one tough fan, the Yankees would have to win over 160 games by your standard! I don't see them getting there either.

[Asphalt]

you're aiming for 10,000 posts in your first year? Yowser. I am almost at eight months, and I'm only at about 2500. Maybe I can hit 5000.

[mukraker]

I give you my word, when I posted this, I was thinking only of sports. But, now that you mention it.....hmmmmmm

[MikefromOhio]

LOL

actually they would need just under 240 wins in a season hehe

but seriously there is a group that produces a formula to show which franchises get the most bang for their bucks....

[MikefromOhio]

well some nights in Iraq when all my systems were working well I had nothing to do except post on FR. probably 7000 of my posts where from when I was in Iraq....

[TheForceOfOne]

The Stankees payed $200 million Dollars to get slapped around like the school yard wimp. Eating Orioles dust while they're still close enough to taste it.

The Stankees don't know how to rebuild, they simply ravage other teams, cashing in on what they have developed by luring them away in cash battles most teams can't match.

By buying up the market instead of developing their own, the Stankees have become like a crack addict with the shakes looking for his next fix before going into withdraws.

Joe Torre can't fix this team because he doesn't know how, he simply fills out lineup cards a prays. Its not the Stankees who should be scared, its all the other teams who want to hold on to what they have achieved before the carpetbagger comes calling.

I'm glad to see the Stankees implode but the sport needs a real salary cap like the NFL, if not for the survival of baseball, then do it for the fans they deserve it.

[SoothingDave]

The ONLY reason the New York Rangers, with all of their talent, don't win the Stanley Cup every year is because they are professionals and know that the NHL is business. BIG business.

Guess what would happen if the NY Rangers and a few other overtalented teams showed their metal every time they stepped on the ice?

I'll have some of what you're smoking.

(And it's "mettle.")

SD

[RedwineisJesus]

I was referring to the bottom part of their skates.

And I don't care if you don't believe me.

They both SOUND the same.

Besides, English is my second language.

[Echo Talon]

DA Bears, Rebuilding since 1985 :D

[mainepatsfan]

This could be their year to win their division.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

Interesting argument. The Saints have been rebuilding for nearly 40 years.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Congratulations. You have, in large part, just described the Minnesota Twins.