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

[RICHARD ROBBINS]

There are certainly two ways of looking at the issue, each with some
merits and, in my view, neither clearly right.
 
Starting from that point, and even though I tend to favor having a new
franchise simply inherit an existing franchise unless we are expanding
the league, I am persuaded that the better choice is to do that which
will tend to promote league harmony.
 
Any new owner will understand the situation that he or she is walking
into and can choose to join or not on that basis.  I don't want to
create ill-will among existing owners who were asked to build from
scratch.  For these reasons, I will switch my position.
 
-- Rich

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From: announce-bounces at usml.net [mailto:announce-bounces at usml.net] On
Behalf Of Jim Barrett
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 8:22 AM
To: USML Announcements
Subject: RE: [USML Announce] League update -- Potential 11th team


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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	Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 10:47 PM
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team
	
	
	
	It was wrong when we ma de 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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