Transformation Plan

[Phoenix]

OK sports fans. Watch the money not the game.

Tampa Bay Bucs were the Super Bowl Champs. The value of the team was at its peak. Fans went wild and paid ridiculous sums of money for five year contracts on Season tickets. Then the star players were all traded away at a nice cash Profit. Now Tampa Bay Bucs suck, but the owners cashed in on all the value.

The sports fans can't understand why the owners are doing such a crappy job at running a Super Bowl Champs team. It wasn't about running a Super Bowl Team. It was about money in the short term.

Transformation Plan:

1. Sucker Tampa Bay residents to agree to tax for New Stadium
2. Sucker fans into high-priced season ticket contracts for five years
3. Sell off all the Super Bowl talent
4. Ignore the charges of failing to effectively manage, while you count your millions.

In the case of USAir, all the value is in the routes.

Transformation Plan:

1. Extort drastic wage reductions on the promise of allowing people to keep their jobs.
2. Break "promise" by systematically transferring the jobs to the slave labor camps who now run the routes.
3. Declare bankruptcy to stiff the creditors and the stockholders that finance the transformation plan, lather, rinse, repeat.
4. Ignore the charges of poor management, while you count your millions.

Cheers,

Phoenix

 

[High Iron]

I'm not a sports fan, so at first I kind of glossed by the topic ( though sports make good mataphor material ).

Turns out to be a dead-nuts accurate anology IMO. Very very good. Take a bow.

 

[Ramp Rogue]

The Chicago Bulls did the exact same thing after their last championship!

 

[bagosh]

Now take the New England Patriots
They have won the Super Bowl 2 of the last 3 years, their ticket prices also went up as did a new stadium. But the management team they have has been able to curtail cost, got rid of some high priced talent and replaced them with a quality product that continues to win.
I guess the difference is being able to make good management decisions.

Go Pats

 

[MCORORES]

Does the word FUMBLE mean anything???? LOL

 

[whlinder]

Interesting.

I don't know how Tampa "sold off" the Super Bowl talent, but the talent got old, and wasn't as talented as it used to be, but wanted to be paid the same. Where does that sound familiar?