"Mutiny" may not be real

[DazedAndAmused]

Someone has suggested to me that the very initial rumblings of coup may have been sincere, but now a deal has been worked out and all will be spun something like ths:

-Some underperforming team owners have put the league in a very bad situation. We acknowledge that team foldings and cancellations have reached an unacceptable level. (The league has never really admitted it had serious trouble so this is new.)
-The strongest owners have banded together with the league office to take drastic action to ensure this does not happen again. (We won't have too many details on what the action is but it will involve some vague statement about background and credit checks.)
-The ABA is now stronger than ever, and we now can continue our mission, built on a much stronger foundation.

[Pounder]

The war is always loudest before the surrender.

I kind of doubt any agreement made will turn this tide.

[DazedAndAmused]

The war is always loudest before the surrender.

I kind of doubt any agreement made will turn this tide.
The question is that, if there is some sort of bankruptcy/reorganization filing, will some of the remaining teams be allowed or want to continue playing under the "ABA" moniker, at least to finish the season? That may be the only agreement to be had. Joe would seem to want this if he plans to reorganize for next year. Just thinking out loud.........

[Minor League Man]

I think that could be just the calm before the BIG storm...

[Sam Hill]

They've played the "to ensure this doesn't happen again" card before.

It was bs then, it's bs now.

There is one - ONE - way for this league to be viable: remove the cancer at the top.

[SignGuyDino]

Good idea, Sam, I think I have a better one: Sell the rights to the name "ABA" to the NBA, they can rebrand the D-League, then start a new name with NO Uncle Joe.

[DazedAndAmused]

Good idea, Sam, I think I have a better one: Sell the rights to the name "ABA" to the NBA, they can rebrand the D-League, then start a new name with NO Uncle Joe.
I thought the NBA already owned rights to the name.

[DaveHolmes]

I thought the NBA already owned rights to the name.

They do - Joe just licenses the name from them.

[SignGuyDino]

Oh, that's right, my bad, well maybe the NBA will be able to revoke it.

[DazedAndAmused]

Someone has suggested to me that the very initial rumblings of coup may have been sincere, but now a deal has been worked out and all will be spun something like ths:

-Some underperforming team owners have put the league in a very bad situation. We acknowledge that team foldings and cancellations have reached an unacceptable level. (The league has never really admitted it had serious trouble so this is new.)
-The strongest owners have banded together with the league office to take drastic action to ensure this does not happen again. (We won't have too many details on what the action is but it will involve some vague statement about background and credit checks.)
-The ABA is now stronger than ever, and we now can continue our mission, built on a much stronger foundation.
anybody disagree here?

[nksports]

The question is that, if there is some sort of bankruptcy/reorganization filing, will some of the remaining teams be allowed or want to continue playing under the "ABA" moniker, at least to finish the season? That may be the only agreement to be had. Joe would seem to want this if he plans to reorganize for next year. Just thinking out loud.........

When two of the last three NIFL teams played a final game, they played under no league sanction.

[Pounder]

anybody disagree here?

The deception lies in the concept that Joe gave a crap about the performance of bad owners before they started failing and threatening the rest of the boat. Their "badness" usually involves lack of funds to cover much more than the initial $10K. That could have been sniffed out with some little goofball concept called "due diligence."

The half-believers will say that Joe is incompetent for failing at due diligence. I'm one of a few who believes the concept is intentionally ignored in the basement because it is the crux of "league revenue."

If the owners decide to buy the lie, it's their problem, not mine.