I see a lot of people saying “sell the team”, and I’m all for the need to make drastic changes. However, every team has a salary cap, so beyond hiring people to actually run/coach the team, what other influence does the ownership bring? Can it make that big of a difference who owns it?
Remember what happened when Bill Wirtz passed away? It changed the culture of the Blackhawks organization overnight.
I think the difference would be if you get an owner who truly wants to win and has more money than god or an owner that will run it like another money making business.
A new owner won’t change shit. They have the same motivation to cut corners and profit off their disappointment
Virginia’s probably gonna put something in her will that says her family can’t sell the team when she dies because “that’s not what dad would’ve wanted.”
And "dad" didn't want her to kill her fucking brother and then screw his kids out of money
honestly it's a 50 50 shot...if you get owners that genuinely want to win, it could be good to have someone who knows how to hire GM's, a team president, the staff to put together a good coaching staff and team, that's willing to spend some money and draft smart and make a consistent competitor. if you get an owner that just wants to make money, it could backfire big time. the McCaskey's might not be good at running a franchise, but i genuinely believe it's more because they're clueless on how to do it; a new owner that only sees dollar signs could run the team as bad or worse, and do it because they want to save as much money as possible to line their pockets.
Can't get worse than it is lol
We have the worst stretch of losses in the history of the franchise. If it gets worse; at least we tried. Apathy is the current owernship’s main quality.
George McCaskey is a grossly incompetent child of nepotism who's not fit to run a convenience store let alone an NFL franchise.
Very few things could be worse for the Bears than the current ownership. In a very general, broad reason, they just don't know what they're doing. They don't know football, they can't identify people that do know football, they can't identify quality GMs, coaches, ect. They're loyal to people that are bad at their jobs, that can't run an organization. They're just....bad at owning a football team, and people are optimistic that a new owner will put football people in charge of the team.
Look at what happened in Detroit
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Here's a really interesting article I found on the subject (on LinkedIn of all places lol). It does an amazing job of explaining the creeping rot that is the ineptitude of the owners and how it has spread with one decision at a time. The Bears organization is a disfigured amalgamation right now, and I believe the article zeroes in on the sickly heart at its beating core.
They aren’t selling the team anytime soon. For starters the value of the team for tax reasons is based on what the last owner paid for or what it was worth at the time she got it from her father. They would have to pay capital gains on the difference which would be billions of dollars.
Once she dies the value rests and the majority owner assuming it’s George will have a new value. The taxes on the new value vs the sale price will be much lower as the gap will close.
What people don’t realize is the entire family works for the bears. Many have jobs you’ve never heard of. One grandson is in charge of food at Halas hall. Yes the family could sell and split the money up. But the reality is almost 100 family members are on the payroll and that’s not something they want to get away from.
Value of the team in 1920: $80 and a donkey
Value of the team today: $6,000,000,000
How much each owner makes in TV revenue alone: $500,000,000
Add in that nobody in that family has ever had a job outside of the team. The very thought of such a thing must be terrifying for them, having to get a job and be held accountable for something.
They will never sell that team, especially once they take in God only knows how much once the Arlington Heights property is in use year round .