I do think selling Brown paper bags at the games this year where the proceeds go directly into the paying off Burke/Mack/Crowton/Creehan salary fund is a great idea.   I guarantee you either doing this or having a giant social where all proceeds go to this fund would be a massive success.   

 

We want to have a safe bet for our next regime so no crazy off the wall hiring,   just a solid group of guys if they are available. 

 

GM throw some money at Higgins,  promise him complete control and if he so chooses to get an assistant GM,  don't cheap out and get him one.   If not him then select somebody who has been in or around the league in the last 5 years.   NO TILLMAN NO TAMAN!!  I don't know if it is Mack or if it's the BOD but how in the world can this team be so damn cheap in free agency.   We should have a massive amount under the cap considering how  young and how little superstars we have.  I know other teams cheat and have more spending money, but how does Taman sign big cheques to guys like Geroy Simon who they don't even need and yet we don't throw a little money at Picard and end up cutting bigger salary guys like Hefney and replace these guys with men making small potatoes.   I'm not saying go full blown Hamilton in spending, but if you need o-line help would it kill to give 50 000 more to Picard rather then having our qbs being killed. 

 

HC - Bluto is going to hate me here,   I'm actually keen on Chris Jones and would definitely give him a shot at being a HC.   He seems to be a winner wherever he goes and it doesn't look like he will move up the ladder in Toronto anytime soon so why not.  The fancy pick also could be Dickenson... I'd rather have a guy with more experience coaching but with how crappy our offense has been for years... I'm open for a guy who knows how to put up points in the CFL.

 

OC - Absolutely has to be somebody who has played in the league and/or coached for at least 5 years on offense.   No more croutons or barr-asses or nobodies that have no clue what they are doing.   I'd go off the board here and see if Calvillo has any interest in coaching.  Might be a gamble but the guy knows the CFL and defenses very very well.  This is one area that we can't afford trying to get a NCAA guy to learn the CFL game.  Can't afford it at all,   if not him then I'd be open to pretty much anybody with positive experience.  I'd assume Berry burned his bridge with us, but if desperate he could do as well. 

 

DC -  Go grab Mark Nelson right away from Montreal,  the guy has had success and does run a nice defense that I think could work well with our solid D-line and when healthy solid LB'ers.  I do think our secondary is better then they have showed,  their is no way that the whole group of guys "lost it" in a matter of one season.

 

QB Coach -  GET ONE STOP BEING CHEAP,  dear lord Buck Pierce is not a qb coach I'd want.... have you not heard him the guy thinks he has it and thinks the team is always almost there.  I want someone more realistic... I'd take anyone who's interesting in coaching.   Maybe Dinwiddie since he's always been known to being a very technical guy and smart.  Plus he can sell a few tickets to the cougars fawning over his dreamy eyes.

 

O-line Coach -  Our o-line has stunk for years,  what's Wylie up to these days?   It seems like we used to get a lot out our o-line and these days they just plain old suck.  

 

QB -  Keep Goltz , start off fresh.  I'm not a Goltz hater,  I just think he's getting a raw deal with this crap team.   For competition depending on who is available and who is healthy....   I would rather they bring in a guy who has had some kind of success. I know we won't be able to magically Tillman up a free awesome qb.... so maybe they can manage to get someone like Tate, Nicholls, Collarus, LeFevour etc....  I assume Calvillo will retire so Montreal will go hard after a new qb, so along with the Ottawa draft we may have to once again settle.

 

O-line -   How in the world have we not brought in some Americans to start?   That should the absolute easiest position to fill and yet we settle for massive mediocrity.  Huge huge thing we need to fill in during the off season.  If their are proven o-linemen... we definitely need to open up the wallet and get someone.  It's one of the easiest spots to put together with new players and to make them gel.  A-one top priority for the off season. 

 

For all other positions, I think we are perfectly fine and could plug holes easily with some recruits from our new GM.   

 

All I know is that people are not motivated to watch this current team and current regime play,   they are highly motivated to clean house and remove the cancers (coaches + buck) and the media would more then love to jump on this kind of bandwagon to raise money and to pay off the crap in order to get hopefully something good going.    We need CFL experienced winners running the team.  No more guys who were passed over a million times by other teams and/or guys who are way over their head.  

Anyone like my idea?   

 

I'm not sure what more to say. It's all there, try again.

It's all there complete with double negatives...so no trying again...doesn't make much sense

It's all there complete with double negatives...so no trying again...doesn't make much sense

Aha I see, it's really just missing emphasis and quotations... Burke doesn't literally know 'nothing' about an offense, rather he leaves it in the hands of people who (presumably) know more.

 

Or: Tim Burke knows vastly more about an offense than he claims and only lacks experience as a coordinator... even though he has been quoted saying he knows 'nothing' about an offense. And I'm sure that's obvious to you, so I don't know why you would take him so literally.

So hiring the guy who helped contribute to this mess by slashing costs and hiring Mike Kelly is an option for you?

Exactly.  That guy hurt us more then anything.  I don't want Lyle anywhere near Winnipeg.

I don't understand why we always have to reach back into the past for all our hirings.

 

We need to clear out the Board of Directors and everyone all the way down from there to the coaching staff and bring in some fresh blood.  People that aren't tied to the successes of 25 years ago and all the failures since then.  It's time for a total overhaul from top to bottom.

I don't understand why we always have to reach back into the past for all our hirings.

 

We need to clear out the Board of Directors and everyone all the way down from there to the coaching staff and bring in some fresh blood.  People that aren't tied to the successes of 25 years ago and all the failures since then.  It's time for a total overhaul from top to bottom.

 

I advocated doing this when Bauer left .. like I said in another thread .. the current structure simply has too many competing agendas .. many of which aren't directly aligned with bettering the club. 

I don't understand why we always have to reach back into the past for all our hirings.

 

We need to clear out the Board of Directors and everyone all the way down from there to the coaching staff and bring in some fresh blood.  People that aren't tied to the successes of 25 years ago and all the failures since then.  It's time for a total overhaul from top to bottom.

 

Yup, agreed.  The problems run even deeper than board - management - coaching staff - players.  It's the WHOLE damn organization.  I've got good friends who work operations and even that crew is an old boys club.

I would rather see our new GM select the coach he wants and then that coach select the staff he wants. No other chain of hiring works for a football club. Burke will get fired...it's not really a matter of if but when because he's not a good coach and the incoming GM will want his own guy.

I advocated doing this when Bauer left .. like I said in another thread .. the current structure simply has too many competing agendas .. many of which aren't directly aligned with bettering the club. 

 

Nailed it.