Official Game Day Thread - Winnipeg at Montreal November 1, 2025

[Jesse]

MOS is one of the most successful coaches in Bomber history, sure.

He's had a pretty solid team to coach for most of that, because of Walters / scouts.

He seems to lose things in the details.  Clock management, timeouts, taking advantage of turnovers quickly, utilizing weapons.

I think, with better support staff, he becomes a much better coach.

The front office $SMS was brought in because Chris Jones was...  Chris Jones.

It was meant to stop teams from killing their bottom line with bad decisions.

I really, really think it needs to be erased or raised dramatically.  We can't attract top tier assistants paying them PR roster player wages.

Yes, the WFC has a good bottom line and can afford to pay coaches more.  Making the fans pay for bad coaching because we aren't allowed to pay better ones will hurt the best fanbase in the league.  With zero upside.

Make front office $SMS a soft cap, with overeages paid for in dollar for dollar contributions to the league, with those payments disbursed to the other teams the following year as money they can spend above the cap.

We blow the cap by $800k, every team gets $100K in payment from us, and the ability to spend $100k over the present cap that year (we get the cap increase too, but no $$$).

The haves can spend, the have nots get a hand out.

We refused to operate like this for players, why would we do it for coaches?