[USML Announce] League update -- Potential 11th team

Jim Barrett chicagojab at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 8 08:22:14 EST 2006


I guess its how you spin the facts.  The way I look at it, at a minimum - the last 3 teams to join the league (Calamari, Republicans, and Cups) all had to build from scratch.  So if you want consistency, the new teams builds from scratch as well.

"Richard E. Robbins" <RERobbins at iTinker.net> wrote:      I believe our league has consistently allowed an owner who was assuming management of an existing franchise to simply step into the shoes of the prior owner and that when we have added a franchise the new owner has drafted from scratch -- i.e., no expansion draft.  When both events took place at the same time, we made both owners draft from scratch.  
   
  People can debate whether this is/was the right approach, I'm just trying to explain what we have done in the past.
   
  I support an 11th team and agree that the new owner should just assume the Cups franchise but will (of course) defer to the majority view.

    
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  It was wrong when we made you and the Cups start from scratch and it would be wrong now.  I was taught that two wrongs don't make a right.
   
  More importantly, the circumstances are different.  This is a team that has expressed a willingness to join our league at the 11th hour (no pun intended) and one which will have very little time to prepare for the draft.
   
  It does absolutely no harm to the league as we should have all been operating on the assumption that the Cups would be returning.
   
  Jeff
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