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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.

Why can't Miller and Walters handle the expansion draft and hire a GM later in December or early January? Making excuses to avoid making tough decisions already.

Yeah, yeah we all know you love Ross Hodgkinson. Let it go already. I never understood the hate for Ross, but at the same time, I never understood the love. To me, the ultimate testament to his abilities (or lack thereof) was when he was let go -- was he able to surface somewhere else in the CFL? If the answer is no, then he probably wasn't suited to the job. And yet the guy who does the same job in BC, with almost minimal personnel involvement, is a candidate to run our entire football operations according to some.

it's a really, really weird list of nominees this year at MOL Yep, January has a chance to get the Eastern nomination. He's next on the seniority list. Looks like the Edmonton writers just voted for the tallest and heaviest OL on the roster. If Matt O'Donnell is your top OL, your team is in a world of hurt.

According to Lawless, the only candidates are the current GM's of other teams. Everyone else is off the radar. What a knob.

What could he do in half of a season to lose it? Trading a 2nd round pick for a NI OL prospect with a broken leg that hasn't healed since June with a bloated contract is pretty close for me. Walters in the big chair permanently is just the Football Club being cheap and lazy. Burke staying as head coach will be more of the same.

Labatte's the 3rd best OL on his own team this season, but that's how the CFL awards work.

The reason I wouldn't touch Bellefeuille with a 10 foot pole for a permanent job here (OC or HC) is that he has a horrible track record at developing young QB's, which is what we need to do. Yes, he can build a 7-9 win team around Marcus Crandell or Kevin Glenn, so can any coach in professional football.

Do you think it is possible to hire an offensive-minded head coach and have him operate at arms length from the OC successfully, who potentially has conflicting views on scheme? I don't.

Wormans offense didnt seem too stellar to me during his last kick o' the can.. Agreed. 14-4 was a terrible time for us. I'm sure being the first crossover team to win a playoff game (largely on an offensive gameplan that destroyed the Bombers zone with passes to backs) was a terrible time for Eskimo fans too.

What does this even mean?

Worman's working for the Redblacks currently.

Austin has zero confidence in Burris.

I don't think the shelf life of RBs should even be an issue. We aren't signing him to a 10 year guaranteed contract. I think you absolutely go after Harris. And you pay him the top dollar he commands. After QB, he should absolutely be our #1 target if he makes it to free agency. And I think he's a solid level below Cornish. In fact, I think the gap between him and Durie is smaller than the gap between him and Cornish. That doesn't mean he's not an elite-level NI talent. And we need those. The best offences in the CFL the last half-decade all feature at least one solid receiving threat out of the backfield, and he fills that role quite well. He'd be better in Durie's role as a slot with occasional backfield responsibilities IMO. That's what Wally was grooming him for.

Rosters are frozen for the week before the Expansion Draft. Basically once teams submit their protected list, December 9-16. There's two weeks after the Grey Cup for movement. I thought the league still had the right to not approve any trades made after the Grey Cup They have the right to not approve any trade at any time. When's the last time a trade was vetoed by the commissioner?

Glenn is actually one of the best QB's at sneaking, he just doesn't do it because no starters do. Not when he first started with us. Only after, did he get marginally better. And yes he's a 'starter' now, but I still wouldn't have him go first in my rotation of sneakers. He could be worse at it now, we'd never know. Never had any issues with it here, he's short to begin with and knew how to just slide behind centre and guard. It's hardly an athletic play, as long as you can bend your hips and knees.

Only if the Riders don't pick up his option.