I wouldn't say that.... surely he and I did things a little differently but I'm just tired of getting labled for things that had nothing to do with me.
Did the Sharks never try to play home games at the Milk House at Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex? Or even look at Disney for sponsorship. Or ask the league if they could play all their first season games away/on the road, so they would still be involved in the inaugural season. Keeping the staff on and having a community program in a good idea.
we don't know if they tried to do that. i would imagine everybody and their brother and their brother's cousin's girlfriend's roommate asks disney for sponsorship. i would imagine they don't act on all the requests they get. that would have been the dumbest thing they could have possibly done on the face of the earth. as if that's a big deal. sure, as long as you can pay for it. i'm not sure they can (or want to) indefinitely.
I don't think the things they have going on really cost them anything and if they do they are spending money to make money. Students at the University of Central Florida run after school programs for school credit. The camps cost money for the facilities and what not but they at least make their money back on those. And they only have to get to november 09 with the idle operations.
soooooo....they're not paying decent salaries to staff, paying their payroll taxes and benefits and suchlike? great deal. i wouldn't play games, either, if i could get away with having a team and a staff and not having it cost me anything. short time when it's not your money. really long time when it is your money.
Why are you being so confrontational. they are owned by a larger company If I understand it right its like this: BVC Corporation>>BVC Sports & Entertainment>>Orlando Sharks my friend there is working on a few things other than Sharks stuff
because you're incredibly frigging naive, that's why some very large companies are laying people off left and right, or hadn't you noticed that? doesn't matter how large the company is that owns them. it makes zero economic sense to remain at a certain level of staffing and say that everything is peachy keen for more than a year when you have no ticket revenue (your main budget line item) coming in. none. zero. even if you do choose to do it, it certainly isn't true that it isn't "really costing them anything." or that twelve months isn't a long time. again, unless it's opm.
Re: because you're incredibly frigging naive, that's why looks like you have research to do and you should pay attention to my words a little bit better if you're going to attack what I say. I said they are owned by a larger company, not one that would fall into your description. You should also note that they don't have a very large full time staff in the first place. I'm not sure what you are referring to here, the two community events I mentioned do not cost them much. You can argue for argument's sake all you want, you are wrong on this so please feel free to quit posting on the subject.
I once saw a guy on tv. It was an old variety type show from the 50's or 60's and this guy would put a plate on a stick and spin it like a top. Then he'd move on to the next plate, spin that. Then a 3rd, and a 4th. Well the guy had about 8-9 plates all spinning away and he had to keep running faster and faster and faster trying to keep them all spinning. Now the crowd would cheer and yell as one plate after another would slow down and really start to wobble before he'd charge over to it and keep it spinning. Sham is spinning a lot of plates under the BVC company. Some of them are really starting to wobble. The plate marked 'Orlando Sharks' might be the first to fall. Just like the guy from the tv show finally the work of spinning all these plates overwhelms the spinner. The plates start to fall. Look out below Orlando.........
I saw one of those guys on "The Bozo show" Thats one of those professions that makes you think hmmmmm... how do you decide to become a plate spinner?? do you wake up one a day and think I am going to spin some plates on sticks and be the best at it although...it must have been a good gig if they make it to TV and now a days, a job is a job, if you make a living plate spinning, more power to that
Its never a good sign when the parent company of your team is run by a guy that according to news reports on him has him being investigated for "millions of dollars of fraud".
That's an excellent illustration and from experience (not plates, business), it's the wobbly one that disproportionately consumes the bulk of your time. We have 17 facilities, whoops 18 now, and the two or three that lose money probably consume 50% of our time. Much as you saw your plate spinner running around focused on the wobbly ones. By getting rid of a wobbly Orlando he and the larger organization have more time to focus on other trouble spots.
but, tom....orlando's coming back, didn't you hear that? they're not dead, they're just pining for the fjords.