There is good and bad here.
The Bad:
Whoever did that raw camera work should be fired. You are the club's in house videographer
get a bleeping tripod, setup in a prime spot and have it setup pre-press conference for FSM's sake! The lack of internal website professionalism in presentation is completely unacceptable.
I've really grown tired of Skulsky making an a** of himself at press conferences. This is a football operations press conference to introduce a head coach.
No one wants to see you hand out gifts and flowers. Could someone, please sit Skulsky down and explain to him that his role is to interact with the business community, make sound, long term business decisions in the best interests on the franchise, enhance the overall value of the franchise for the owner and enhance the profile of the franchise. Wally is the face of the franchise. You are the executor of the business operations portion of it. No one comes to these to see you. Get off the camera, button up your suit and get to a Toastmasters class.
What his role
isn't is to bigfoot his own GM and new Head Coach by putting on a display of Christmas time generosity. Exactly zero members of the media are going to care that you're handing out flowers. You are wasting time and embarrassing yourself and the club. Do it off camera.
*deep breath*
Get the press conferences out of the locker room. While we're all aware that backdrops have their limits, it really looks chintzy when a cameraman zooms out (who shouldn't be zooming out) to find that you're doing this in a cramped lockerroom. Either use a concourse or a conference room for these things.
The Good:
So once the dog and pony portion of the program is done, Tedford comes on. The immediate impression is that
he is absolutely a football coach. It's evident immediately in his demeanor and his cadence, and he doesn't hide it well. You get the pleasant impression that this is what he is born to do. You get the impression that he is starting from almost zero when it comes to contemporary CFL baselines, and that isn't great, but at least he didn't try to BS you. I cringe a little bit when I heard "this is a passing league" and "I've watched as much CFL on tv as I can", but, cringeworthy as those lines may be, at least he's honest with it. He would be advised to bring Cortez on board, and quickly. It also seems that he loves the game, so that's nice.
And in the end, this may be what we want. Wally has an understanding of the big picture, and Tedford is here to oversee and ensure proper execution of his coaching philosophy. I get the sense that the concern for overarching season themes and group togetherness that existed under MB are history. And for a few years, anyway, this may be what we need as a club. Will it be good? That remains to be seen.
