State Payment Plan

LKelley67 · 05-03-2005, 01:08 PM

yup, agreed generally progress. my post was somewhat tongue in cheek. it might benefit an area enough to grant some sort of subsidy to attract or keep a local business. that benefit is indeed here but i think too few people can see it. it is an easy political football to use the class warfare card. it is usually punctuated with \"they haven\'t done squat as a team either\" by both the politicians and the non-fan types. if approximately the same money was doled out in response to performance, those groups would be much quieter and more accepting of the arrangement, benefit to the state being a reality or not.
on the other hand the primary goal of a business is profit. some corporations get subsidies and still cannot do it. the goal of a nfl team is to win. imo, this franchise has fallen short of it\'s goal in that regard. i see the current arrangement only encouraging a lackadaisical ownership approach that puts the bottomline above wins. it is established that benson is no al davis-jerry jones in his passion for the game to start with. also, winning in today\'s nfl goes far beyond player salaries. sure there was the 4 games won at the end of last season that might have made keeping haslett more reasonable. do not think benson didn\'t consider the cost of buying out his contract either though. also, he would have to pay the salary of a new staff. saban got what? 7million?! the owners are constrained by the cap in regard to players but there are astronomical differences of operational budgets between the tightwads and the win at any cost owners.

---not of great relevance, but do you guys remember when all the hubbub about saban being courted by miami was front page in december? when benson was asked if he would consider saban his response was- \"I DID\'NT EVEN KNOW HE WAS LOOKING FOR A NEW JOB.\" i can still go wowie over that. we live in anguish over if talman gardner can be a reliable #3 or 4 receiver. i wonder if he can name a #3 at any position.

05-03-2005, 01:08 PM	#7
LKelley67 1000 Posts + Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: baton rouge Posts: 2,540	State Payment Plan yup, agreed generally progress. my post was somewhat tongue in cheek. it might benefit an area enough to grant some sort of subsidy to attract or keep a local business. that benefit is indeed here but i think too few people can see it. it is an easy political football to use the class warfare card. it is usually punctuated with \"they haven\'t done squat as a team either\" by both the politicians and the non-fan types. if approximately the same money was doled out in response to performance, those groups would be much quieter and more accepting of the arrangement, benefit to the state being a reality or not. on the other hand the primary goal of a business is profit. some corporations get subsidies and still cannot do it. the goal of a nfl team is to win. imo, this franchise has fallen short of it\'s goal in that regard. i see the current arrangement only encouraging a lackadaisical ownership approach that puts the bottomline above wins. it is established that benson is no al davis-jerry jones in his passion for the game to start with. also, winning in today\'s nfl goes far beyond player salaries. sure there was the 4 games won at the end of last season that might have made keeping haslett more reasonable. do not think benson didn\'t consider the cost of buying out his contract either though. also, he would have to pay the salary of a new staff. saban got what? 7million?! the owners are constrained by the cap in regard to players but there are astronomical differences of operational budgets between the tightwads and the win at any cost owners. ---not of great relevance, but do you guys remember when all the hubbub about saban being courted by miami was front page in december? when benson was asked if he would consider saban his response was- \"I DID\'NT EVEN KNOW HE WAS LOOKING FOR A NEW JOB.\" i can still go wowie over that. we live in anguish over if talman gardner can be a reliable #3 or 4 receiver. i wonder if he can name a #3 at any position.