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Link to the survey for those of you who haven't seen it: https://engagemb.ca/time-change

Since we didn't make it to the Grey Cup game last year?

Rogers seems to hate the CFL (based on the reporting that I've seen on SportsNet in the past), so I would question if they would ever be interested in the broadcast rights anyway. TSN is really the only game in town unless either CBC decides to take up sports broadcasting again or one of the streaming platforms comes knocking because they want to get into it like Prime did with the NHL.

One thing in the article made it sound like he got a job coaching QBs at his old college. I'm guessing that's the reason for the odd timing of his retirement.

Bronze medal game is tomorrow, Gold medal game is Sunday. Leafs suck because there is a black hole at the centre of the universe.

Unfortunately, if that were the case, the NFL would likely just say screw it and stop even looking at CFL players at all.

Pretty sure they talked about Chris Schultz quite extensively because he passed away between seasons. They also still talk about him sometimes when they are talking about Purolator Tackle Hunger.

I read it more as they haven't talked to the rest of the coaching staff yet and he wasn't going to say someone isn't going to be back without having told them to their face beforehand.

Brady O.

Streveler

Justin McInnis

Demski

That was kinda my point originally, as much as their analytics are saying that the changes will add 60 TD per season, that's less than a TD per game (5.185 points per game), but they didn't take into account the number of field goals that won't be scored, so overall scoring will go down. Even more if you take out missed field goal touchdowns as you suggest. I think they are using the increase in TDs as a way to try and justify the changes they wanted to make anyway, but they didn't actually do the math. Sure, 60 TDs sounds impressive, but when you break it down per game, the argument falls apart.

My mistake, that should have been 81 games... 9 teams, 18 games each, divided by 2 because each game is played by 2 teams. So 60 TDs over 81 games is only 0.74 TDs per game, so it's even worse than I thought.

That's the big concern though, they're making these changes which will do nothing to attract new fans, while at the same time upsetting the existing ones. The rules are not and have never been the issue with regard to attracting and retaining fans. The effort that the marketing teams put in, the game day experience (see Winnipeg), and to an extent the results on the field (see Edmonton for the negative side) are what will bring people to the stadiums and drive revenue. Even if these rule changes did drive up the scoring and 50 points became a regular thing, it would do nothing to attract new fans. These changes are short sighted and lazy as far as I'm concerned.