Hambone wrote:I think Braley's ownership in Toronto has been misunderstood. I always thought his main interest was in keeping the bills paid and the team afloat to buy time until an ownership group came along that wasn't fly-by-night like Chen, Skalbania, Schwarz or the Gliebermans. I think when he took over it was because the Cynamon and Solkoloski group was effectively tossing the keys on Cohon's desk with the options being for the CFL to take over running the team, fold it or to sell it to anybody willing to roll the dice to run it as a toy. You can be guaranteed if the league took it over they would've cut back in all areas Braley did and then some because you know the other 8 teams that would have to share in the cost to run the club wouldn't be wanting to contribute a nickel more than the bare minimum to takes to run a very basic football operation.sj-roc wrote:I think Ravi's point is not so much about meddlesome ownership, but quite the opposite: that Braley has been an absentee owner to the point of neglect, and I'd say he has a bit of a point there. There were stories/rumours in Tor last year about head coach Scott M wanting to quit after the 2014 season because of low organisation morale (no official practice facility, poor game scheduling, layoffs in business ops, uncertainty in future of franchise beyond Skydome exit, etc, etc). Players were said to be equally frustrated with the lack of a professional sports atmosphere.
Just listening to Braley and Skulsky talking to Sekeres and Paterson. MS asked Braley when was it that he decided it was time to sell the Argos. He responded "the minute he bought the team". He said he only bought it with the intent of keeping it going until a new stadium arrangement was in place and he thought that would only take 2 years. He never envisioned the stadium issue would take so long to solve. Apparently the BMO deal took 2 years to put together which I suppose in hindsight shouldn't be a surprise given the number of players it turned out were involved all with varying agendas. It gets me to wondering what would've happened to Good Ship Argo had Braley known when he stepped in it was going to be for 5 years instead of 2. Would he have committed to taking over the team back then? If he didn't would there still be an Argo team today to move into BMO in 2016?
now it is time for Braley to do something with the, lions there is no way this game should not get a lower bowl sellout Against Sask ? if you look at ticket master there are still tons of tickets left this is a n embarrassment to the franchise somebody is not doing there job and should be fired .
