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Posted on 06/08/2005 11:36:49 AM PDT by 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 ....
FOOTBALL IS SERIES!!!!!.......
I would be thrilled if FR had a sports section.
My team is the Cardinals; they are always reloading.
"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."
Or the 3-time Super Bowl Champ New England Patriots.
And I'm not even a fan of them, but respect their accomplishments.
My team is the COWBOYS........We're always dumping........mostly on the CARDINALS........
that's why I like College sports...if you think about it, it is ALWAYS a rebuilding process...
of course some teams have a higher payroll than others hehe
Nice idea in theory... putting it to practice might be difficult.
Take Baseball for example... where would you find a high functioning team from which you would pluck these players?
95% of the minor league teams are made up of players already contracted to a major league team. The independent teams are way down the ladder... Single A at best.
The players on the college teams are subject to the MLB draft, so the "stars" on this team will be split and go to the teams that drafted them.
Remember Reggie White and his trade from the Eagles to the Packers? He came to Green Bay specificly because he wanted to go to the Super Bowl. He could have gotten more money elsewhere, but he still chose Green Bay.
Reggie White and Brett Favre brought a sense of teamwork, and good old fashioned hard work, back to the Packers again. Result: SuperBowl.
I'm a loyalist. I'm not a big football or basketball fan so the UofM MSU rivalry doesn't come into play. For me it's Detroit Tigers and Roush racing.
The ultimate team is our military, constantly having to reload due to seperations and retirements.
As far as sports goes, the example of what not to do is the $208 Million NY Yankees. They truly underacheive.
The New York Giants have been rebuilding in 90% of the years I've been a fan.....
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check out my webpage then....
you will see a definite theme....
yeah or the 160 million dollar red Sox...
instead look at teams like Milwaukee or Florida or Atlanta....
Get brand new players straight from college then. The key is that ALL the team players know what the deal is. They all play as a team, not as superstars. And they're treated as such. It would be best if there were no players with any prior professional experience. Start with a clean slate. But I know that isn't possible in the professional ranks today. It is, after all, a business.
yeah well I dont like scUM either :)
I'm in Cleveland, it's always a rebuilding year.
The Oakland A's do it that way all the time. The problem is, they can't afford to re-sign their stars at contract renewal time, so they are perpetually "almost good enough". ;)
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