joe kapp22 wrote:
Heh, you'll never find me saying such a thing, I love the CFL, one is a bit sensitive and over compensating methinks/.
Why is it there are several points made in my OP, all ignored save for what I considered the smallest point?
The Argos franchise has tried the"star" approach before, it did not create long term success for the franchise, does repeating it make sense to anyone?
Whatever "points" you're trying to make are based on an absurd and tiresome premise. Tillman has traded quarterbacks in the primes of their careers on prior occasions. The Eskimos are up against the cap and have needs in multiple areas. When there are multiple
legitimate reasons to make a trade, delving into 'conspiracy to benefit Toronto OMGBRALEYRULEZLEAGUELEAGUEISBUSHLOL territory is both absurd and unnecessary.
Toronto is and for the next few years will be a difficult market in which to operate a team. They have no recent consistent legacy of winning for which to build a fanbase, a certain percentage of the populace that considers itself too good for the CFL, though for the most part the NFL dream is a baby boomer oriented pipe dream that resides in Ted Rogers coffin, Paul Godfrey's crypt, and Rob Ford's spitoon, they have a mediocre stadium in the worst possible place and they consistently support the Leafs and only the Leafs.
However, if you can get four seasons of competitive play out of a team centered around Ricky Ray and results in a vein similar to what you got in BC with DD, and you trust Jim Barker to build a front office that knows what it's doing (as opposed to the days when Paul Masotti was in the front office) you can get the Argos to the point where they go from treading water to breaking even. Equally important, you buy yourself enough time to develop the next Travis Lulay behind him.
Toronto has sufford the staggered misfortuntes of having a good business organization and a bad team, or a good team and a bad business organization. What David Braley is trying to do is to get good pieces of both in the same place at the same time. One thinks the pieces are getting in place on the business side, while the Ray acquisition, like the Dickenson acquisition, is the start to the latter on the product side. And he and the league are done a disservice when people like you and Cam Cole blow the dust off the conspiracy theory nonsense.