This Offseason - BE THE OWNER!!!!!

[sportscurmudgeon]

If I am the owner of the Skins, I realize that I have already hired a coach with Super Bowl rings and a GM who helped to assemble a team that won a Super Bowl. Give me two gold stars...


This offseason, I give those guys a budget figure and tell them not to exceed it. That figure includes everything from player salaries to costs of training camp to scouting to equipment to post-game buffets. I will demand that they call me any time they sign a free agent from some other team so I can keep a running list of my roster. I will also be sure to read the newspapers the day after the draft is over to see what new blood they got from the college ranks,


Once that budget figure is set, I go about my life trying to attend to my other business interests until Opening Day of the 2010 season whereupon I will be in my owners box - - if it is a home game - - or in the suite provided for the visiting owner - - if it is an away game.


My role would be to get the Hell out of the way of these two guys that I just hired and spent about $50M to bring to DC...

[squrrelco3]

Like someone else mentioned earlier, if I'm the owner I admit I suck as a personnel guy, I leave it up to Allen and Shannahan while I go work on my golf game...

I get rid of the 400 level seats at FedEx field and replace them with an overhang like the old RFK Stadium...I cut back the clubhouse seats by half and replace them with GA seats to replace the ones that were lost by eliminating the nosebleeds...Finally I donate my owner's box to charity and go hang out in the stands with the rest of the fans al-la Mark Cuban...OH and I cut beer, food and ticket prices by 20%...

I also hire a traffic engineer to figure out the parking at Fed Ex field and eliminate paid parking.