JuranBoldenRules

Big time. The inmates ran the asylum when he was here, luckily he had some pretty solid inmates who could lead. The total loss of control in 08 and downloading of the OC duties to Dinwiddie and Glenn in the second half of the season proved the guy can't handle any of the positions that require management skills. Good coach, not a manager. Not cut out to be a head coach or co-ordinator. OL coach or maybe even QB coach would be a good role for him, along with advising a young head coach. Don't want him in charge of anything.

Berry would be a very good OL coach and assistant head coach. Not really interested in him otherwise.

Denmark is a great example of Burke's incompetence. Absolutely refused to play the guy at slot after he became head coach because he believed Denmark struggled too much with the waggle. No thought of coaching him up, just putting him out at field WR where he's too far away from the ball to do much. Guy lights it up as a slot after Crowton leaves, lit it up as a slot with Lapolice.

Wouldn't judge him by his time as "OC" in Hamilton. It was Bellefeuille's offence. I think he did a good job with both QB's there and helped turn marginal prospects into players, like Bakari Grant.

I'll wait until the actual check is waved in front of his face and we'll see if he still turns it down (if asked). Asking him right now is dumb. Anyone can say no. But then someone comes along and puts money in front of you and says the HC job is all yours all of a sudden thing change. It's like saying you'd never sleep with a hot prostitute, even if it was for free. But wait until she strips naked in front of you and starts lap dancing you and all of a sudden your **** is taking over your brain. Money isn't going to woo Dickenson. He makes more as OC in Calgary than our last 2 head coaches were paid. He is basically the head coach in waiting in his adopted hometown. Nobody is going to leave that situation to come into a mess where the CEO wants to be the GM, board members want to be the CEO and the GM and coach are doomed to fail.

Bison kicker Nick Boyd is also a 5th year and a free agent. Has a huge leg, not a great placekicker, but should get a shot to punt in the CFL. He needs some time to develop his placement, but he's been much better this season. In the Hardy Cup today he pinned Calgary inside their 20 for most of the first half, too bad the Bisons offence and defence couldn't do much. He hit one that was a 48 yard punt that landed on the sideline.

First step for the organization is to hire a GM in the week after the Grey Cup. Walters will lead the transition team and take on the position of assistant GM/director of Canadian scouting. Here's what I'd do up to the Ottawa draft as a GM: Step 1- Hire a head coach with strong management abilities. I don’t want a guy who is going to call the offensive plays or insist on a certain style of offence or defence. I want a guy who can manage a strong coaching staff (and attract those coaches) and players. Step 2- Give the head coach the necessary resources to put together his coaching staff. Step 3- Offer the Argos our 3rd round pick in 2014, 1st round pick in 2015 (conditional on Collaros signing a contract with the Bombers) and Max Hall for Zach Collaros and Trevor Harris. If they refuse, I counter with our 1st pick in 2014, 3rd round pick in 2014, 1st in 2015 (conditional) and any import player they want off our roster or neg list for their 1st pick in 2014, 5th round picks in 2015 and 2016, Collaros and Harris. Step 4- Protected Lists: Import- Collaros Sears Washington Wild Anderson Jones January Denmark Turner McAdoo Woods NI- Muamba Greaves Kohlert Labbe Swiston Watson Next 7 (we get to protect 6 after Ottawa picks one from this group): Etienne Thomas Poblah Pencer Renaud Fitzgerald Volny I didn’t protect Neufeld because I think his contract and broken leg will shoo Ottawa away, or take a bad contract off our hands. I don’t care a whole lot about Ottawa not targeting free agents, the only guys Ottawa won’t take are guys with legitimate NFL prospects this off-season IMO. If we don’t protect free agents we won’t have anyone to protect.

You don't need a training camp to evaluate him now, there's more than enough film.

They already have a problem selling tickets with Tim Burke. First season in a new stadium, how many sellouts? They budgeted for 31,500 per game, did they get that?

Burke's input would have little value to me if I was making decisions going forward. You can argue about his competence, but he has proven himself to be incredibly biased on a personal level, you can't evaluate football players with that mindset.

This season was just plain ridiculous on and off the field. To put a team that poor on the field in the first year of a new stadium when you have a chance to build and solidify your fan base is an absolute f**k up. Combine with terrible planning, fan relations and the general poor attitude of the whole organization off the field, and you have a total show of incompetence, a complete disaster transitioning from an old dumpy stadium to a fresh one, should have been a great time for everyone. It would be impossible to top this in terms of bad. I mean they could go 0-18, but if they had a half dozen people on payroll who knew how to operate and function within a customer based business off the field they'd fare better than they did this year and through the stadium transition on the whole. I never thought it would be possible for my loyalty to this team to be tested, but it sure has, I mean I've lived my entire life save for about 9 months in Winnipeg and played football from the time I was 7-22. It's my favourite sport, I'm bound to be a Bomber fan just by my interests and environment. If the Bombers can lose my business they can lose almost anyone.

He actually had some talent though. Just stuck in a horrible situation and tossed on the field right away with tons of hype as a "NFL QB." We're talking about QB's as pathetic as Boltus, like filling their Pampers just attempting to take a snap-bad.

The guys gave it their best today. Even at 3-15 they try so hard. Tough to fire the coach.

Sammy Garza isn't even close to being among the worst. Kevin Mason is the worst I saw. Kent Austin was awful as a Blue Bomber. Mike Quinn was horrendous, NFL west coast style passer who just couldn't make throws or read a CFL defence. Keithen McCant, Shawn Moore both couldn't pass. Brian Ah Yat, Jose Davis awful backups on a great team.

Nobody with two brain cells to rub together would pay $10 million to take that debt obligation (Football Club) and then pay to lease the stadium. If the Bombers could operate at a $5 million profit every year there would be no problems, but they can't, even in the new stadium. They can't service the debt on the operations of the Football Club (even if Jon Bon Jovi made IGF into a karaoke bar for the month of May every year), which is why the Football Club is worthless as a business. It's unlikely that a private operator would take on the Bombers for free with the debt obligation and no way to pay it back.

I'll sell you my car for $10,000, but you'll owe the bank $100,000 as part of the deal. The Bombers have no value. The only way a private entity takes them on is if the government eats the debt and leases the stadium operations to that private entity, True North would be perfect because they have all the infrastructure in place to both operate a professional sports team and a facility. I guess you could count the lease price as a sale price, the NHL sure has more than a few times, but it really wouldn't indicate the value of the Football Club. There is no way to service that debt through operations, that's what completely cripples the organization.

The team has no value. The only value is in operating the facility.

The Bombers aren't publicly owned, their a Non Profit Organization, so the Board would have to approve any take over. That means nothing when the provincial and municipal governments are involved. See Osborne House. They ultimately control the team.

Usually when you make a deal and your end of it completely bottoms out, you lose the benefits on the other end of that deal, but in this case, who the hell knows? The government is going to have to eat that debt or drive the Football Club right into the ground. I have a feeling that True North will be handed the team and stadium once the Football Club defaults, which will basically be once they have to start making payments on the loan, they should make enough from the Grey Cup to make the first round of payments, so 2018-19. How do you hand a publicly owned team to a private enterprise? Because the province doesn't want to operate a football team or stadium. My guess is that there would be some kind of leasing deal for the stadium that would kick some money to the province, but really it'll just be a way to wash their hands of responsibility for the Football Club, which has been a thorn in the side of both the city and province for a couple decades. It's not as much a publicly owned team as a publicly owned liability. The team operates at breakeven in a good year, then they come around asking for loans every decade or so, then they ask for those loans to be forgived a few years down the line, or paid through taxes that would be collected either way. The Football Club doesn't put any money into general revenue of the province or city outside of tax revenue that would be collected whether it was operated publicly or privately. A team that's worth $10 million (generous valuation) carrying a $80+ million debt is essentially worthless.

And you have no clue whether the architect was capable of designing the stadium or not. There are ALWAYS redesign requirements and additional costs with all major projects. Ray Wan had never designed a stadium before. Instead of going through the proper process of taking submissions from the three firms with the most experience in stadium design and determine which one was the proper proposal, the Bombers (Asper) choose to go with Wan. The likelihood of having significant cost overruns due to redesign requirements (outdoor pressbox, not providing proper field access from the stands, improper venitlation) are much greater with a firm with minmal or no experience (Wan) than it would be with a firm with plenty of experience (HOK). The biggest cause for overruns is that the stadium was designed to look nice on a postcard, not necessarily function.

Usually when you make a deal and your end of it completely bottoms out, you lose the benefits on the other end of that deal, but in this case, who the hell knows? The government is going to have to eat that debt or drive the Football Club right into the ground. I have a feeling that True North will be handed the team and stadium once the Football Club defaults, which will basically be once they have to start making payments on the loan, they should make enough from the Grey Cup to make the first round of payments, so 2018-19.

Who did Jim Popp, Jim Barker and Brendan Taman play for?

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/sports/football/bombers/Blue-Bombers-board-of-directors-accepting-nominations-205973501.html So it's really no different than the usual process, except they had names emailed to them to choose from. So really they could have just appointed anyone they wanted, not a public process at all.

What exactly is the "public nomination?"

Viable candidates...not Tom Higgins, who says he's interested in any job that will get him out of the league office.