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How much would it take to buy the Cowboys? And what would you do?
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blueblood70
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Possible yes buy the NFL is hard to get approved to purchase a team the vesting is intense.
crypto? 8 billion? right i know some got some money but evere many billionaires out there can't afford that.
look around that the top 5% of the worlds wealth and jot many can come up with that type of money and if s few they could have hard time becoming vested and smaller yet some that would care about the team,.you may not lie the Jonses, but they do care they come from football background and respect the game. they played, their children played ,and grandchildren play. they love football as much as money and that hard combo to find.
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I think you have to take the first part of the question off the table. I don't think Jerry would sell anyway, but we don't need to know this info anyway to discuss a fantasy hypothetical.
I don't say that as a derogatory comment - I don't have a problem playing a harmless game of "what if".
My first move would be to start a search fora GM. I think that has to be any reasonable person's first move.
I see you mentioned Troy, and I think he would be a candidate to talk to, but I wouldn't limit my search to him. If he was willing, and the right candidate were available, it might make sense to find a very successful, but nearing retirement GM for Troy to work with a few years before completely taking the reins. It would be a pretty big position to take on with no experience, and without any returning executives to help out. The previous executives with the last name Jones would all be gone. Whoever gets the job would obviously have to sell me on his vision for how to build the team.
With a GM in place I would expect all the coaches, and key players as well, to be interviewed as a way to evaluate the staff and where changes should be made. Obviously the players have to be evaluated as well, but the coaches have to be involved once they are all in place so they can work with the GM and talent and cost can both be factored in.
My ownership style would be just to be kept in the loop with consideration for the fact I'm the one that ultimately is paying the bills, but the football decisions would be the responsibility of the football guys. Whatever input I give would not be public.
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Put the offer in at around $7.5 to $8 BUS (Billion USD).
1. Get rid of Jerry and Stephen.
2. Install managing board of the corporate holding company.
3. Offer minority ownership to Jerry Jr and Charlotte, and a board seat. In exchange for continuity on the sales, marketing and community relations side.
4. Get rid of the asinine **** that Jerry has bought with the team money. The yacht and the stupid ******** bus. If the assets are not directly football related to the product on the field then it isn't going to be in the company holdings. I can give some credence to the plane, but this is pushing it a bit for me. I would rather go with a lease arrangement so the 290 days of the year it's not being used it isn't another sack of **** this team is carrying. There is enough crap on this stupid Cowboys wagon that you can't figure out if this is a football team or Ringling Brothers.
5. Hire a no nonsense GM. No one in the family gets into the football operations. They get to be fans, but not stick their porkpie fat *** fingers into this organization.
6. Set up a football and business operations board. The GM, the coach each and every year have to sit in front of the board of hand picked, outside of the organization individuals, who will grill the coach and GM on the past season, and they have to present their direction and offer up the reasons why they failed this season. Who would be on the board? Bill Parcells. Tom Donahoe when he quits the Eagles. Robert Stevens outside of football to make sure the staleness of football doesn't permeate the room. Tom Coughlin bad in Jacksonville with player grievances, but a good coach who understands the rigours of the game. R.C Buford from the Spurs because this dude knows how to win. Stanley McChrystal because he really understands the price of failure firsthand, and has dedicated his professional life to helping others avoid it. And finally Susan Wojcicki because she has bigger balls than most men, and sometimes you need a woman in the room to emasculate men who are just too stupid to get past their testosterone.
7. Bring down the barriers between the fans and the management. Instead of focusing on coddling the players, the mgmt team and board will make itself known and available to fans and box owners to set the tone that this isn't a circus sideshow, but a focused and disciplined organization looking to be good at one thing. The product on the field.
8. The coach and the players I would leave to the GM. The accountability I would leave to the board. My role is to make sure everyone is uncomfortable every single day by supporting the board's recommendations, and the only group I have to answer to is the fans.
If I had $8 billion dollars...
1. Get rid of Jerry and Stephen.
2. Install managing board of the corporate holding company.
3. Offer minority ownership to Jerry Jr and Charlotte, and a board seat. In exchange for continuity on the sales, marketing and community relations side.
4. Get rid of the asinine **** that Jerry has bought with the team money. The yacht and the stupid ******** bus. If the assets are not directly football related to the product on the field then it isn't going to be in the company holdings. I can give some credence to the plane, but this is pushing it a bit for me. I would rather go with a lease arrangement so the 290 days of the year it's not being used it isn't another sack of **** this team is carrying. There is enough crap on this stupid Cowboys wagon that you can't figure out if this is a football team or Ringling Brothers.
5. Hire a no nonsense GM. No one in the family gets into the football operations. They get to be fans, but not stick their porkpie fat *** fingers into this organization.
6. Set up a football and business operations board. The GM, the coach each and every year have to sit in front of the board of hand picked, outside of the organization individuals, who will grill the coach and GM on the past season, and they have to present their direction and offer up the reasons why they failed this season. Who would be on the board? Bill Parcells. Tom Donahoe when he quits the Eagles. Robert Stevens outside of football to make sure the staleness of football doesn't permeate the room. Tom Coughlin bad in Jacksonville with player grievances, but a good coach who understands the rigours of the game. R.C Buford from the Spurs because this dude knows how to win. Stanley McChrystal because he really understands the price of failure firsthand, and has dedicated his professional life to helping others avoid it. And finally Susan Wojcicki because she has bigger balls than most men, and sometimes you need a woman in the room to emasculate men who are just too stupid to get past their testosterone.
7. Bring down the barriers between the fans and the management. Instead of focusing on coddling the players, the mgmt team and board will make itself known and available to fans and box owners to set the tone that this isn't a circus sideshow, but a focused and disciplined organization looking to be good at one thing. The product on the field.
8. The coach and the players I would leave to the GM. The accountability I would leave to the board. My role is to make sure everyone is uncomfortable every single day by supporting the board's recommendations, and the only group I have to answer to is the fans.
If I had $8 billion dollars...
conner01
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I think 10 billion would get a conversation going but not sure Jerry would sell at any price that wasn’t totally stupid money
First thing I’d do is invite everyone from this board to the stadium and let y’all hang out with the players
Then I’d give them copies of all your posts calling them soft, over paid and such
While I had all the cheerleaders in the hot tub I put in what was once Jerry’s suit
Y’all have fun
First thing I’d do is invite everyone from this board to the stadium and let y’all hang out with the players
Then I’d give them copies of all your posts calling them soft, over paid and such
While I had all the cheerleaders in the hot tub I put in what was once Jerry’s suit
Y’all have fun
SteveTheCowboy
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I have to have pity on the people that claim Jerry' is doing this because he's money greedy.
SteveTheCowboy
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Which shows why you'll never have the money. Poor judgement.
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one would have to have a huge credit line, and borrow the money, so assume 8 billion, how much would the payments on that size loan be??
How many years to pay it off?
You would have to make payments with your yearly income, so there is a limit to how high the payments could be.
Cowpolk
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Yep and they have stated that the team will never be sold
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Haha - I've done fine with my businesses, thank you very much. At some point, it became enough for me .. for others like Jerry, and you obviously, it never will be. Like Howard Hughes was quoted when asked which million was his favorite?
"The next one", he answered.
More important things for me to do ..
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You couldn't pay the Jones's enough. This franchise is now their identity.
However......
In the unfortunate event that the Jones's were forced by the league to sell the team.....which would probably take months, if not years, of litigation.....
The Cowboys are currently valued at 6.5 Billion, but you know Jerry. He'll ask for at least 10 Billion. Then again, if he is still alive, his heart will be broken and his salesmanship "A" game isn't going to be there.
If Jones had to sell today I think it would be somewhere between 8-9 Billion.
If I were to buy the team I would hire a temporary board of consultants whose only job was to find me the best GM for the Cowboys in the world.
The board would be an odd numbered panel of 5 or 7 members who would include some of the best reputable minds in NFL football. They might include former players, coaches and executives like Troy Aikman, Calvin Hill, Roger Staubach, Blaine Nye, Gil Brandt, Jimmy Johnson, Bill Parcells It would have included Dan Reeves. It may even include former city government members.
I might even conduct a very scientific poll in the area to discover some of the general feelings of Cowboy fans and area citizens. I think a GM that is supported by the fans upon hire might increase his odds of success going into his first season. Be that as it may, I would put it all in the hands of this expert panel and stay out of it..
Once I hired the recommended GM that would be my last football related decision until I had to retire or fire him.
My only direct role with the team would be, we might say, that of a "highly privileged fan".
I would get the news first, hang out during training camp, talk with "the guys" and on the field before games, sit in the baddest most luxurious suite in the stadium, special order my food for delivery from the stadium restaurant of my choice and spend each night weighing my money like "Scarface" Tony Montana because there was too much to count.
However......
In the unfortunate event that the Jones's were forced by the league to sell the team.....which would probably take months, if not years, of litigation.....
The Cowboys are currently valued at 6.5 Billion, but you know Jerry. He'll ask for at least 10 Billion. Then again, if he is still alive, his heart will be broken and his salesmanship "A" game isn't going to be there.
If Jones had to sell today I think it would be somewhere between 8-9 Billion.
If I were to buy the team I would hire a temporary board of consultants whose only job was to find me the best GM for the Cowboys in the world.
The board would be an odd numbered panel of 5 or 7 members who would include some of the best reputable minds in NFL football. They might include former players, coaches and executives like Troy Aikman, Calvin Hill, Roger Staubach, Blaine Nye, Gil Brandt, Jimmy Johnson, Bill Parcells It would have included Dan Reeves. It may even include former city government members.
I might even conduct a very scientific poll in the area to discover some of the general feelings of Cowboy fans and area citizens. I think a GM that is supported by the fans upon hire might increase his odds of success going into his first season. Be that as it may, I would put it all in the hands of this expert panel and stay out of it..
Once I hired the recommended GM that would be my last football related decision until I had to retire or fire him.
My only direct role with the team would be, we might say, that of a "highly privileged fan".
I would get the news first, hang out during training camp, talk with "the guys" and on the field before games, sit in the baddest most luxurious suite in the stadium, special order my food for delivery from the stadium restaurant of my choice and spend each night weighing my money like "Scarface" Tony Montana because there was too much to count.
Hagman
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1. Hire a competent GM to be in control of the coaching staff and players
2 Fire Rowdy out of a cannon through the open stadium roof and into White Rock Lake
3 Make the blue color on the jerseys match the navy blue of the Star on the helmet
4. Put Joh Niland, Cornell Green and Jimmy Johnson in the ROH during the very first home game. Other classic players, coaches and staff to follow
2 Fire Rowdy out of a cannon through the open stadium roof and into White Rock Lake
3 Make the blue color on the jerseys match the navy blue of the Star on the helmet
4. Put Joh Niland, Cornell Green and Jimmy Johnson in the ROH during the very first home game. Other classic players, coaches and staff to follow
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There’s a big difference because picking number one means your season was toast by at least week 5 or 6. You’re definitely losing when you’re picking number one overall. Philly is picking 15 and made the playoffs and the Cowboys are picking 24 and won their division and had a home playoff game. How is giving yourself a chance in the playoffs losing? I guess the only team according to you that isn’t losing is the one that’s picking at 32. Everyone else are losers. lol
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If you have the money..why NOT buy it. You hire people to run it. You have to do nothing!
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My favourite answer so far. Specifically about giving back to the blue collar fans. One thing I am surprised no one has said yet is
Put Jimmy in the ROH-edit saw it 2 posts up
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Figure out a way to make the uniform as embarrassing as possible (possibly either polka dot or hot pink but I am assuming a pro could come up with something worse) and tell them they can wear the old uniform when they play at a level that shows they deserve to wear the same uniform as those who came before.