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Originally Posted by PSUSkinsFan21
Excellent point. Let's not understate this point either guys. If you want to draw comparisons between businessmen and atheletes, then let's really consider how T.O.'s actions in the business world would be dealt with.
Scenario: Donald Trump contracts with a world-famous architect to design a new, high-tech, new-age apartment building. The terms of the contract are that Trump pays 7 million dollars up front as GUARANTEED money to get the architect to come and work for Trump (in this scenario, there is a ton of competition out there for this architect's services......he's one of the top two or three architects in the world). After the $7 million dollar up front bonus, the architect is to work on the design and construction of the apartment building over the course of the next 5 years for $500,000 per year. Trump has built into the contract that EVEN THOUGH HE ALREADY PAID the architect $7 million dollars in signing bonus, if Trump has artistic differences with the architect, and he is not happy with the way the building is looking, he can fire the architect at any time and not have to pay him any of the remaining $500,000 yearly salary (but he CANNOT recoup the $7 million already paid).
Now, it's one year into the design and construction of the apartment building and everything is going great. Trump is thrilled with the architect's job so far. Knowing this, the architect decides to walk off the job, and refuses to come back until Trump forks over another couple of Million $ and a higher salary. He says: "I want to renegotiate, and if you don't give me a better deal, I'll sit at home and refuse to perform under my contract."
Now, in the business world guess what happens? Trump hires a big time law firm to file suit against the architect for breach of contract. And guess what.....He wins.
So as you can probably all tell, I think Carl Banks' argument is rediculous and the analogy isn't well thought out. Does Trump want to make another billion next year? Yep, of course he does. Does the architect want to make millions more? You bet. CAN THE ARCHITECT BREACH HIS CONTRACT TO DO IT? NO It's not only not right, it not legal in any other setting than professional sports.
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That's not the way it is at all! Okay...Trump hires the architect and says I'll guarantee that you get your $7 million over the first 3 years of the contract and then you'll get $3,500,000 over the next 7. So what happens is he gets his 7 mil, but he gets something like
Year 1: $300,000
Year 2: $300,000
Year 3: $350,000
Year 4: $400,000
And then Trump fires him before the architect sees any of the real money they agreed he would be paid OR He says that needs to sign architects to build some new hotels so he needs him to go ahead and get rid of the last fews years where he was going to make his money and Trump will give him another $8 million over the new contract which will be longer and even more backloaded. That's the NFL.
TO is gonna make something like $756,000 next year and $1 million the year after that. All of the rest of the money is at the back end of the deal. So what he wants is to have the backloaded money moved forward. The Eagles never get close to the salary cap so financially it makes no difference.