On the Cheap...another wasted season brought to you courtesy of Richardson

[teeray]

I already did in the other JR bashing thread.

[TNPanther]

Let's go back in time.... to the year 2010. I know it seems a long time ago but that is where our story begins. John Fox is not extended and the writing is on the wall. It seemed everyone knew Fox was done in Carolina but we kept him anyway. Jerry Richardson made the comments about obligation to stockholders and firing a coach and hiring another would affect his bottom line.

 

Fast forward to 2013.

Same scenario - An owner who has displayed a reluctance to make changes and fix mistakes that might cost him. We have to pay for his mistakes. Jerry is made of teflon. Great person. Smart Businessman. Worthless Owner.

 

So it's another wasted season because our owner doesn't want to have to pay a fired coach a salary. It's all about the bottom line...and that bottom line is not winning. That takes a back seat to profitability.We had to pay for a stadium renovation because this owner is so cheap he won't even fire lame duck/inept coaches.

 

As a business student, I can't help but cringe at this thought process.

 

Sure, a top priority of business is increasing and maintaining stockholder welfare and market price of shares. Your shareholders are the people you don't want to piss off.

 

However, THE TOP priority of business is not the shareholders, not the accounting, not the marketing....but the PRODUCT and its CUSTOMERS. 

 

We customers have been let down by the product for the last 5 years now. Yet people keep buying because the preview of the next year's product appears to have been improved.. Kind of like the Madden video game series.

 

 

Jerry Richardson knows more about business than the entire UTK undergraduate business student body combined. However, he is cheating his most important source of revenue because he knows he can get away with it.

[Delhommey]

Giving a new GM a lame duck coach just because you don't want to pay two contracts is pretty much indefensible unless you're a bigger fan of Jerry than the team.

[CatMan72]

I agree that allowing Fox to linger was a mistake... but you can't put all of this on JR.

[Jmac]

Lets see if JR lets DG pick his own guys.This will tell the tale if we end up with another defense coordinater on the cheap or a losing retread then we will know where it came from. Lets see what happens and see if DG is just another yes man.

[Panthro]

I agree that allowing Fox to linger was a mistake... but you can't put all of this on JR.

 

90%?

[Delhommey]

I agree that allowing Fox to linger was a mistake... but you can't put all of this on JR.

2 purposely created lame duck seasons in 4 years. Why can't I?

[dustin703000]

Our losing ways have nothing to do with how cheap JR is, we are at cap/ over cap every year. The problem is the cap has been mismanaged for far too long and the coaching/GM hires have been terrible but the jury is still out on Gettleman. 

 

JR being cheap is the last reason we are terrible, im sure if he could buy his way into the playoffs he would 

[Zod]

Our losing ways have nothing to do with how cheap JR is, we are at cap/ over cap every year.

 

I think they are talking about paying for a top notch head coach, which doesn't show on the cap.

 

We went the budget route with RIvera.

[dustin703000]

Lets see if JR lets DG pick his own guys.This will tell the tale if we end up with another defense coordinater on the cheap or a losing retread then we will know where it came from. Lets see what happens and see if DG is just another yes man.

 

Sean McDermitt didnt come on the cheap we actually paid up for him to come here, there were other teams he was interested in 

[frash.exe]

You can't say it has nothing to do with JR. JR kept Hurney and Fox here for years past the end of the 08 season even though it had been apparent that they should be replaced. He spent the 2010 and 2011 off season mainly focusing on the lockout and neglecting the team. And of course, his most recent landmark of stinginess, keeping Ron on board at the end of 2012 after it had become obvious that he can't manage a fuging game to save his life.

He is a piss poor football owner

[dustin703000]

I think they are talking about paying for a top notch head coach, which doesn't show on the cap.

 

We went the budget route with RIvera.

 

I dont think he went out in search of a HC with a low budget in mind i think his thought process was he wanted someone with an experienced defensive mind to come in because JR has always been about the D.

 

Who was available when we were hiring that was a high value coach?

[Zod]

I dont think he went out in search of a HC with a low budget in mind

 

Yes, we did.

 

Also, that is the entire reason we were looking for a HC in the first place, JR didn't want to pay Fox's value.

 

[dustin703000]

You can't say it has nothing to do with JR. JR kept Hurney and Fox here for years past the end of the 08 season even though it had been apparent that they should be replaced. He spent the 2010 and 2011 off season mainly focusing on the lockout and neglecting the team. And of course, his most recent landmark of stinginess, keeping Ron on board at the end of 2012 after it had become obvious that he can't manage a fuging game to save his life.

He is a piss poor football owner

 

I agree he held on way to long to fox/hurney and has been a terrible owner i just dont think you could say its because hes cheap