Quote Originally Posted by paulwoods13 View Post
There is no doubt, and there has never been any doubt, that MLSE is in the sports business for one primary purpose: to grow enterprise value. Operating profits (and losses) are of vastly lower importance. Its three other major league properties have all grown significantly in value over the duration of MLSE's ownership. The Argos have not. They likely could not be sold today even for the $5 million the team supposedly fetched in 1988 and 1991 (although we now know that both of those sales figures were essentially fictional).

A strong case can be made that in its five years of ownership, MLSE has done little (if anything) to attempt to grow the franchise value. And a strong case can also be made that ownership failures/neglect/stupidity over the preceding 35 years were also a massively important contributor to this awful state of affairs.

As to what could be done to reverse this situation, who the hell knows at this point? A dedicated Argo president with a mandate from MLSE to grow the Argos brand (and a budget to make that happen) certainly could not hurt, but there is no guarantee that even that would make a difference.
Can MLSE at least try and put in equal effort to what they put into Toronto FC? Is that asking too much?

The lack of vision from Tanenbaum and friends has been immensely disappointing, especially when you see the likes of Doman, Cui and Young working their tails off and either expecting success or, in the case of Young, having success.