On salaries and payroll going foward:
“That was a factor. When you look at the salaries over six years, it’s not a bottomless pit. If it was it would be different. It’s like going out to eat and looking at the menu, you don’t even look at the prices on the right-hand side.
“We have to, it’s part of what we’re doing. Ownership has been great, we’ve spent a lot of money on the draft, especially when you look at where we’ve been attendance-wise and what we spent on payroll. I have parameters to work within and that’s fine. That makes sense. And if there’s certain cases, I can make my case to Paul. Trying to fit all those things in and build a sustainable team, that’s the challenge.”
On the loss of income via revenue sharing:
“It’s not impacting us in ’12, but I think in ’13 and beyond it’s going to impact us, certainly we’re going to be receiving less. I don’t get involved in those conversations with accounting, but there’s no question that’s going to be phased out and we’re going to lose dollars there. I’m sure that has some type of bearing and impact.
On team payroll year-to-year
“I understand it all depends on how we do in attendance, things like that. My thought is being able to know what a floor is going forward as a parameter, but it’s never set in stone. I’m always given a, ‘this is an area I’d like it to be’ and if there’s something we need to go over for … with certain cases we’ll jump up beyond that. There’s no questions that there’s areas I’ve been asked to be, and I can work within those areas. Whatever I’m handed to work with, I can make it work.”
Is it just me or the tone in these quotes seem a lot different (and negative if you're a fan) when compared to the quotes from a year and two years ago (constantly saying "we have the green light from Rogers to have a payroll in the $100-120 million when the time is right) ?
