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 ....

[Asphalt]

precisely, but they suck at rebuilding. For example, they have not fired Hasslet

[mukraker]

Have your Twins gotten that sponsorship deal worked out with Hostess yet?