Of course the owners know all this. They get compensated, for sure. Ryan knew what he was getting into, and it is a larger cut of the profit sharing to pad his finances. He is fine with the higher draft picks in exchange for "considerations" of some sort.
We don’t really have any other options so unfortunately it’s the best way to play our hand. It doesn’t mean it will work, it just means that our options are so limited that it’s the only way forward.
Nah no way he knew.
The owners have a completely different point of view than we do as ordinary fans. For them it is a hobby/business, sometimes business/hobby, so they are concerned about the money and the optics of owning a franchise, and their perspective is on different things. Of course they agree how the ping pong balls fall and play along as required to make sure it is as good a show as it can be. The benefits are obvious, if obscured from the rest of us. The back room shenanigans are real. If you don't think they have discussions that literally no one else is privy to, then you are naive in the extreme. Billionaires are always playing back room games with their businesses. Maybe your 15 year old girlfriend's high school naive optimism is rubbing off on you.
It is old hat for these guys by now.
What country are they in then? How can they observe the lottery from there?
Expert in typo jokes are you.. lol..
America, duh. It’s not the league who overseas it but Ernst & Young. The question is who the third party is that it’s outsourced to overseas. It’s a type of Temu drop-shop lottery.
