[Da_Chief]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

He's quickly nearing disaster status.

Attendance has been declining year over year

This one is not just on him. No team, TSN, past commissioners have done much to get the youth involved. You can have high school players running the stands selling 50-50s but where is the young crowd? Tickets are over-priced. In game entertainment sucks. Youth wants technology, social media. What are they doing about that?

All coaches hate CFL 2.0

Is that a fact or your own opinion? Listen I get folks not liking this global initiative but less and less Canadians are playing the sport, again youth not getting involved. You have Americans who can't wait to head back and give NFL another try. Its growing pains but in the long run it's something that will bring more talent to the CFL. Look at the NBA and how many Canadians are becoming top prospects, did you think that was going to happen in 1995? Germany is producing elite NHLers, did you think that was going to happen? This will eventually add talent.

Not punishing teams for exceeding the salary cap

Agreed and the Territorial pick can go away at the same time. Argos had 4 picks in the top 20. Had they been punished and if there was no territorial pick, they likely would've only had 1. He dropped the ball on that one but seeing how attendance sucks in Toronto, making the team worse would've caused more issues. The league needs Toronto in the CFL or TSN will bail out.

CFLPA doesn't trust him

What PA loves or trusts their commissioner? None.

Commitment to player safety has been embarrassing

This goes back a long way. Time after time players have been let off and its not just Randy, its all of them.

Screwed up the federal funding request

Agreed, went un-prepared to ensure CFL gets something before money runs out.

Worst of all was trying to fast track the Halifax team that has no stadium and no support which would have been a major mistake.

Nah, the fans are there. Look at the HFX Wanderers FC, showed good numbers. The lacrosse team was in the middle of attendance table as well. The fans out there want a team, it even up the divisions. If Covid hadn't happened then it looked like it was on track. Now? likely another decade I'd say before anyone thinks about it.

He's not the best but he's not the worst either. CFL doesn't have the dollars to go in without a really well thought plan. They can't re-start and stop after few weeks. It's only going to work if all parties sit down and come up with a plan. There's no point in hiding info from each other, sooner or later it'll come out.