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Arty Spooners Bsmnt

Arty Spooners Bsmnt

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brentashton said:
Congratulations to the Elks organization and to Elk fans. To be finally rid of the Nervous Nine and their brethren/offspring is a day worth celebrating. I hope your days of wandering through the desert have ended.

(But I still hope you stub your toe every so often.)

:)
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Was this really the Nervous Nine though? The real Nervous Nine of the sixties would have had skin in the game if things went too far south. These latest people were just social climbing status seekers who had a huge pot of money to squander and risked nothing.
 
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SupremeTeam16 said:
I’d make that bet too haha. I wouldn’t be surprised if the name change was at least a part of him wanting to buy the team. I don’t think it would be about making money back more-so just dumping a shitty team name. I’m not sure they’d go right back to Eskimos but I’m sure Eskies or Esks is on the table. He’s got enough money and connections he won’t be concerned about push back from corporate sponsors, he can float the boat and find new sponsors if need be. He’s going to care more about what the fans of the team want because he himself is a long time fan.

That said, I don’t think he’s going to be a really hands on owner, he’ll put good people in place and let them do their jobs. He’s a local owner but not around as much since selling the business, they’ve got some a nice real estate portfolio in DLC.
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Where is DLC?
 
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SupremeTeam16 said:
I’d make that bet too haha. I wouldn’t be surprised if the name change was at least a part of him wanting to buy the team. I don’t think it would be about making money back more-so just dumping a shitty team name. I’m not sure they’d go right back to Eskimos but I’m sure Eskies or Esks is on the table. He’s got enough money and connections he won’t be concerned about push back from corporate sponsors, he can float the boat and find new sponsors if need be. He’s going to care more about what the fans of the team want because he himself is a long time fan.

That said, I don’t think he’s going to be a really hands on owner, he’ll put good people in place and let them do their jobs. He’s a local owner but not around as much since selling the business, they’ve got some a nice real estate portfolio in DLC.
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I think that there will many decisions made quickly now. Hopefully his first decision to change locks and codes of the Board. They should be consulted for some things but escorted anytime they are around team and facility.
 
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Arty Spooners Bsmnt said:
Was this really the Nervous Nine though? The real Nervous Nine of the sixties would have had skin in the game if things went too far south. These latest people were just social climbing status seekers who had a huge pot of money to squander and risked nothing.
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isnt each prospective new board member nominated and vetted by sitting directors before being nominated for “election”? I can’t recall ever hearing of any activist shareholders on the Elk BoD nominating an opposed slate of directors to wrest control from the incumbent BoD. Janice Agrios was on the Board after her dad Jack had his day in the sun etc..They seem to all have followed in lineage from the same buddy buddy club.

Maybe I’m wrong. I’d be interested in knowing how it’s not all connected to that time.
 
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brentashton said:
isnt each prospective new board member nominated and vetted by sitting directors before being nominated for “election”? I can’t recall ever hearing of any activist shareholders on the Elk BoD nominating an opposed slate of directors to wrest control from the incumbent BoD. Janice Agrios was on the Board after her dad Jack had his day in the sun etc..They seem to all have followed in lineage from the same buddy buddy club.

Maybe I’m wrong. I’d be interested in knowing how it’s not all connected to that time.
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Its always the same game. You are on 3 or 4 "boards" and then fellow board members recommend you to 5 other "boards" and pretty soon you have a cumulative 6 pack of positions on your hands. All too familiar.
 
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Rourke back to BC.

I’m sick of the league taking bums over my application. What did that guy ever do other than have an iconic year 3 years ago and win league MVP?

I could do that. These leagues wont give me a chance. I’m tired of it. Van Damme won’t give me a chance as a stunt double, and pornhub won’t even look at my home made videos
 
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PositiveCashFlow said:
Will the CFL sponsors allow it? I'd be psyched for changing the name back to Eskimos
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Curious how much they actually get from sponsors, can't be a whole lot. The two that lead the charge to have the team change their name bailed on them anyhow. Team has been bleeding money at an unsustainable rate the last number of years, new owner knows the local landscape well, and what actual football fans want, and I'm sure has done many projections on the impact of changing the name vs leaving it. I think it's a fairly easy decision to rebrand as the Esks or Eskies, or if his balls are really big, restore the old name.
 
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MoontoScott said:
Its always the same game. You are on 3 or 4 "boards" and then fellow board members recommend you to 5 other "boards" and pretty soon you have a cumulative 6 pack of positions on your hands. All too familiar.
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As someone with experience dealing with a public company board - I couldn't be any more cynical and jaded about how boards function and the roles board members have within them.

Boards are basically a retirement club for old rich people, few of which actually give the slightest shit about the company or their performance on the board. Sit on a few boards, collect a handsome sum of money from each to do absolutely nothing, then move along on to the next after a few years. It's honestly the perfect retirement gig. Sit on 3 or 4 of the right boards and you can cash $400k+ for no more than a few hours of your time each week at most (outside the meetings).

The whole system is a sham.
 
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Heavy Dee said:
Esks would be a mistake
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My money would be on Eskies or just right back to Eskimos.

Thats the beauty of being filthy rich and Ill use one of my favourite quotes from Moneyball adapted to this situation “one of the great things about money is it buys a lot of things. One of which is the luxury to disregard what people like or don’t like, what people think or don’t think”.
 
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