Not so fast

[psbf]

All those who are celebrating, I'd re-consider.

[preeths]

I wonder if this is going to come down to who goes where. If Rochester, Vermont, and most/all the other decent teams want to leave Mr. Newman, can he stop them? How important is the ABA name to them?

[rams80]

My thoughts exactly. This is probably going to end with the stable teams and the ABA going their separate ways.

[nksports]

I wonder if this is going to come down to who goes where. If Rochester, Vermont, and most/all the other decent teams want to leave Mr. Newman, can he stop them? How important is the ABA name to them?

At 59¢ a share, someone could buy up a lot of shares, put in his or her own board of directors and vote in a new CEO.

[bdaly]

I wish I had caught the local news stories, but apparently they reported on it here saying "it is for the good of the league." Given Doyle and Hrywnak's background (Hrywnak is CEO for Advanced Ambulatory Medical Center in Chicago), I can't believe they'd jump the gun if their legal ducks weren't in a row. But, either way, I don't think you're going to see Newman, Doyle, and Hrywnak together next season. So I suspect it's the end of the ABA as we know it, whether it be a takeover or the stable teams leaving and doing their own thing. Based on that press release sitting on ABAlive right now, I think it's beyond the point of return.

And, this may help explain the website changeover. I never got the impression Newman was comfortable with the new site as updates became sparse. So either he had to feed information to others and he wanted that control back, or perhaps the Ripknees owner wasn't on his side. Lots of goofy stuff going on to put it lightly, and now we know why.