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Nope. Guys from ODU at Arizona, LA Tech at Birmingham, and Middle and WKU at Memphis. Two from FAU at Orlando. That is it.
Several ex-Spamites at Orlando as well.
Memphis also has a guy from Fairmont State.
The whole thing was rescued from bankruptcy by being more or less sold to the owner of the Carolina Hurricanes hockey team yesterday. It is not long for this world. The TV money + live gate sales do not cover the payroll. When you spend more than you take in, that is all she wrote.
Several ex-Spamites at Orlando as well.
Memphis also has a guy from Fairmont State.
The whole thing was rescued from bankruptcy by being more or less sold to the owner of the Carolina Hurricanes hockey team yesterday. It is not long for this world. The TV money + live gate sales do not cover the payroll. When you spend more than you take in, that is all she wrote.
Yes the league was going to miss payroll, until it found this sugar daddy to "invest" $250M. Since they had to have a good idea what the live gate was going to be and certainly knew exactly what the TV networks were paying, and that is simply less than they were spending it looks like USFL, CFL-USA, WFL, XFL 1.0, etc. again.
How the heck do you start a business venture with more payroll than anticipate revenue?
How the heck do you start a business venture with more payroll than anticipate revenue?
It looks like to me it would be required for any team owner to put up an amount equal to start up costs, operating capital, including payroll, plus at least 20% for anticipated year one losses, in order to get a franchise. That would allow them to bank all first year revenue, which, theoretically, would establish whether or not they could afford a year two. If the revenue was substantially short, you write off the difference as a loss, or adjust your business model in the off season, and move on.
There are no owners of the franchises. Each team is owned by the league.
Coaching salaries are really good; not NFL or top FBS programs good but still better than most FCS salaries and many FBS assistant salaries.
Coaching salaries are really good; not NFL or top FBS programs good but still better than most FCS salaries and many FBS assistant salaries.
I thought I read one story where it was mentioned that the player payroll wasn't even that much, relatively speaking.
One of my buddies got signed by Birmingham then cut his contract was for 90k. Now that was contingent on him not getting cut playing all the games etc but not bad for a fresh start league
And the AAF's version of the Super Bowl, which was scheduled for UNLV's Sam Boyd Stadium on April 27th is moving to . . .
The Ford Center At the Star.
The Ford Center At the Star.
And in the least shocking news in the history of history, the AAF's majority owner says the league may soon fold: https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...tball-aaf-tom-dundon-future-nflpa/3287922002/
Yep. People always say they want more football. Until they are given more football.
How much AAF did you watch? These are pretty good players and games. These are the guys who fell just short of the NFL. If the NFL expanded these are the guys who you would see competing for the new slots.
I think the problem is two-fold.
- People always say they want "more football" but new league after new league has failed. If it doesn't say "NFL" on the sign, most people just won't give it a chance.
- It was a mistake to start right after the NFL was done. Competing with college basketball and limiting the teams (SLC being the exception) to the South. If they had left it lay for a month or six weeks and just had regular season baseball and the NBA's pointlessness to compete against, it might have done better.
In any event, it just joins the list of failed leagues. XFL2 up next, next March.
I think the problem is two-fold.
- People always say they want "more football" but new league after new league has failed. If it doesn't say "NFL" on the sign, most people just won't give it a chance.
- It was a mistake to start right after the NFL was done. Competing with college basketball and limiting the teams (SLC being the exception) to the South. If they had left it lay for a month or six weeks and just had regular season baseball and the NBA's pointlessness to compete against, it might have done better.
In any event, it just joins the list of failed leagues. XFL2 up next, next March.
If you look at who is making up most of these teams, it's mostly guys who played for colleges near the AAF team locations themselves - like Auburn/Alabama/UAB graduates still living around Birmingham, for example. It's not necessarily the best of what's left after the NFL, so much as it is the best of what's around, and that just isn't good enough to offer a compelling product.
The only way the NFL will ever have a developmental league is if they drop the age requirement and started their own, a la the NBA, and stocked it with players who are truly in the NFL pipeline, like 5-star recruits coming out of high school.
The only way the NFL will ever have a developmental league is if they drop the age requirement and started their own, a la the NBA, and stocked it with players who are truly in the NFL pipeline, like 5-star recruits coming out of high school.
