USA Today: With The Star, Cowboys raise NFL bar on team training facilities

[coogrfan]

What coaching staff would you hire?

To be honest, I don't think I'm qualified to make that decision. A GM with a football background would be.

Btw, check out this gem from the USA today article:

When fully completed, Jones said The Star will mean as much to him as any of the Cowboys' three championships since he purchased the team in 1989.

“It will be right there with the Super Bowls,” Jones told USA TODAY Sports, “because I want it to have that national significance.”

Anybody still want to pretend that winning on the field is JJ's top priority?

 

[jobberone]

To be honest, I don't think I'm qualified to make that decision. A GM with a football background would be.

Btw, check out this gem from the USA today article:

When fully completed, Jones said The Star will mean as much to him as any of the Cowboys' three championships since he purchased the team in 1989.

“It will be right there with the Super Bowls,” Jones told USA TODAY Sports, “because I want it to have that national significance.”

Anybody still want to pretend that winning on the field is JJ's top priority?

I read between the lines with Jerry selectively and ignore stuff like this. He's so full of himself you just have to overlook this kind of nonsense. He'd never get me to believe even an engineering marvel which is state of the art anywhere compares to any SB experience.

 

[Fla Cowpoke]

Funny how people lament about Jones making money hand over fist....don't we all wish we were in his shoes.

The one thing I can say is with his money, he could easily go out and pay three times the money for whatever coach he wanted if he really wanted to win it all and manipulate the cap to do whatever is needed.

 

[iceberg]

To be honest, I don't think I'm qualified to make that decision. A GM with a football background would be.

Btw, check out this gem from the USA today article:

When fully completed, Jones said The Star will mean as much to him as any of the Cowboys' three championships since he purchased the team in 1989.

“It will be right there with the Super Bowls,” Jones told USA TODAY Sports, “because I want it to have that national significance.”

Anybody still want to pretend that winning on the field is JJ's top priority?

in all honesty, i hate it. it makes me like the cowboys less even though they're right down the road from me now.

i remember writing about the season after '95 when it was over, i was out on my porch smoking a cigar wondering if we'd ever see another season like that one. wondering when the "night would alive with the warmth of a champion again" as i recall writing. if i only knew then what i know now...

i'd have bought a lot more MS stock and drank a lot less but that's not the point.

i lived a stones throw from valley ranch and it was pretty damn cool. drove by it every day, on weekends went to walk around the neighborhood and just walk through their parking lot cause i could.

they were a corporate team even then, to be sure. in many ways they've been a corp team since north dallas 40 perhaps, but certainly after jones took over. we're now building a facility where the cowboys can practice right in front of the dallas elite have a brunch and a jolly good time with waiter service on the sidelines.

if there was ever a doubt the image means more than the substance, that should forever be gone now. stephen coming along and he's all about the brand but i can only hope he's also all about winning and letting winning be your show.

sans winning, jones has to make up his own reason to keep people interested.

any fool with too much money can build a "star". you can't just as easily buy a superbowl.

i've resigned myself to being at the point where i watch on sundays out of a sense of duty and hope that it's not what it seems to be. i know better, but i still hope, ya know?

we're a long way from winning, still.

 

[casmith07]

i remember writing about the season after '95 when it was over, i was out on my porch smoking a cigar wondering if we'd ever see another season like that one. wondering when the "night would alive with the warmth of a champion again" as i recall writing. if i only knew then what i know now...

 

[Seven]

This is a strawman argument. As long as they have the money to spend on the cap, and we are always near the max, then there is no argument for or against spending money elsewhere. I'm glad they are spending the money on facilities. It may not create a championship in and of itself but there are myriad benefits for having a state of the art facility for training.

Thinking they can't chew gum and walk at the same time is not a very good argument.

I don't believe I mentioned the monetary aspect of "The Star".

I could care less what they spend it on, it ain't mine..................Just do us a solid and put the energy and focus on the field product.

That's what this whole gig is all about..........in the grand scheme of things.

 

[coogrfan]

I read between the lines with Jerry selectively and ignore stuff like this. He's so full of himself you just have to overlook this kind of nonsense. He'd never get me to believe even an engineering marvel which is state of the art anywhere compares to any SB experience.

The fact that you or I don't believe it is immaterial. JJ clearly does, which in the end is the only thing that matters.



As it turns out, there is a substitute for winning after all.

 

[DallasDW00ds0n]

I love it, i want to get a stay at the hotel and go to my first Boys game

 

[big dog cowboy]

Btw, check out this gem from the USA today article:

When fully completed, Jones said The Star will mean as much to him as any of the Cowboys' three championships since he purchased the team in 1989.

“It will be right there with the Super Bowls,” Jones told USA TODAY Sports, “because I want it to have that national significance.”

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[tyke1doe]

I'd rather we put a great product on the field....

Me too. But off-field details like this may be the difference in a free agent signing or two or three, particularly a free agent that can help this team produce on the field.

 

[cowboyblue22]

this last offseason if the cowboys didn't pay the free agents they didn't stay long they went to a team that did with these players now its more about the money than the bling playing for the cowboys don't mean the same things now it used to

 

[Section446]

Me too. But off-field details like this may be the difference in a free agent signing or two or three, particularly a free agent that can help this team produce on the field.

For most teams, I'd give you that, but every poll of players I've ever read already has Dallas as the place most players desire to play.

 

[erod]

Who cares?

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

I read between the lines with Jerry selectively and ignore stuff like this. He's so full of himself you just have to overlook this kind of nonsense. He'd never get me to believe even an engineering marvel which is state of the art anywhere compares to any SB experience.

I dunno. He probably sees them as his Pyramids or Hagia Sophia.

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

I think the better question is what difference does it make? He likes large buildings. Is that somehow going to take away from our ability to win this year or the one's to follow or are we just playing rhetorical gotcha cause we're bored?

 

[NeonNinja]

Me too. But off-field details like this may be the difference in a free agent signing or two or three, particularly a free agent that can help this team produce on the field.

Common sense approach, bravo.

 

[gambit187]

Why even make posts like this? It'll translate to wins as much as any training facility translates to wins. It's not a thread about the football product. It's a thread about the training facility. Some of you guys are so uptight you've lost the ability to separate topics almost completely.

You sir must be old and wise like me lol....

Some of the best professionals in their fields will want to work at the facility, be involved with the facility and all the things that are going to go up around it.

 

[gambit187]

Here is a quote directly from the article...You pessimist don't think this will help the team out in any way in the future.........."A new sports medicine facility, the Baylor Scott & White Sports Therapy & Research at The Star, will feature cutting-edge technology when it opens sometime next year."

 

[Fletch]

Nice! Love that he pours money back into the team in facilities and stadiums.

Just wait for the dancing cages with poles to get erected soon.

 

[coogrfan]

Here is a quote directly from the article...You pessimist don't think this will help the team out in any way in the future.........."A new sports medicine facility, the Baylor Scott & White Sports Therapy & Research at The Star, will feature cutting-edge technology when it opens sometime next year."

I'm fairly certain that we could have had that without the hotel, country club or the restaurants...