It was the exact opposite of you did your research…bad teams were taking money from teams that made money to players they could not afford and we’re still going bankrupt. Meanwhile the teams that were forced to share revenue were told they could not pay extra cash for the players they subsidized to be on the teams taking subsidies… the cap save the cfl.
I recall one year the Lions had to fly to Saskatchewan for a play off game but the riders had to pay for the flights, hotel and food for the BC team as the Lions were broke and had no credit
Yeah I think the league is in a pretty good place financially compared to some other times in its history. Not perfect by any means, but no franchise appears to be in imminent trouble of folding and the salary cap is rising. We’ll see what the new TV contract looks like as that will have more of a significant impact on the financial health of the league than anything else.
That kids car commercial makes me puke everytime. And the save on foods ones?… I’ll never shop there as a result. The man diapers however have been a real bonus!
Remember why they started it? It was because the Riders were making tons of money and the league didn’t like what they were spending on OPs. They didn’t want a repeat of the 70’s Eskimos. The Esks and a couple others nearly killed the league in the 80’s.
I am in agreement with this one. It is a clear circumvention of the players cap. If they are trying to encourage accountability, this is not the way to do it. It’s like when a teenage Wayne Gretzky was working a side job for the owner of a hockey team back in the day.
what puzzles me is that so many think the canadian ratio rule does 2 things:
protect canadian jobs or the “canadian-ness” of teams’ rosters (and the CFL in general)
improve the quality of the CFL game
clearly there are enough quality canadian players that we don’t need the ratio protection - the last two MOPs were also MOCPs. and we have unprecedented number of canadians playing in NFL to prove it.
there is no logical way that imposing demographic restrictions on player eligibility can increase a talent pool. the american pool just happens to be larger than the canadian one by numbers. saying only X number of guys from the american pool improves the quality of play does not make any logical sense.
oh yea, let’s make things even more ridiculous and pay canadian players more for being canadian.
So going to your point @StillHavingFun, I think most people here are still in agreement for the Ops Cap, with a slight modification to avoid being handicapped by poor chemistry/bad management decisions.
Another example, though unproven at this point, was the passing of Ted Goveia. Did that force the Ticats into a bind, or are they just being careful? I don’t think anyone really knows.
I have not been familiar with the operations cap and have learned much in this thread.
I like as you summarized. Have a cap, but put in a mechanism to allow amnesty sooner for ONE of the bad decisions so that an ailing team can have a better chance to recover sooner.
I was going to mention separately, and there you are bringing it up, that either there are already exemptions for death, disability, or medical hardship and certain other unforseeable events off the field for those in operations including coaches, or there should be.
I agree with you, damn that Cars for Kids commercial when it plays on Sirius XM radio too, which is another thing they managed to screw up so as to make it like we remember awful terrestrial radio.
Now you go make like a fine Scooby-Doo villain and go chase off those damn meddlin’ kids and go ransack their instruments so that we can put a stop to all that shit.
