Kicking Showcase

[Blue In BC]

Oh no, not the 23rd and maybe the 22nd best Canadian player on every team.

Yes those players. Either you want a ratio to support Canadian players or you don't. I've never liked the ratio. Finding unique ways to add players from other countries to replace is counter productive.

Globals players are essentially a sub set of imports.

You could argue that the # 23 or # 22 on the Bombers were players like Gauthier or Hallett. Both were more productive in the long term than any global besides a kicker / punter.

The newer bottom of the Bomber Canadian roster might be Kelly, Ball or Novak that all contribute on ST's and could have long careers.

Would you rather have Weitz, Karamoko, Ogbevoen, Mauro, Machino, Oyelolo or Perez as their replacements?  Yeah, that's a group of winners. NOT.

[Tecno]

Have to wonder What are the residual benefits of the Global program?

Hate to say it, but the GLOB program was always a forced DEI-type program to try to gin up Good Feelz within the zeitgeist of that era.  Look at us, good global citizens.

That era has passed.  Ambrosie is gone.  The GLOB program should go with it.

Look at this this way, has it hurt? That is, are less Canadians watching because of it? No.

Is there a better chance of international viewership with an international program? Yes.

Oh look, we have Hansen's mom & grandpa watching in Frankfurt now.  Yay.

Ya, you're right that it's a net positive, but the magnitude is so tiny that it's hard to justify the complication and expense.  The GLOB combine/draft must cost the league at least $0.5M annually.

The only way you'd ever get decent TV/streaming numbers in foreign countries (ex-USA) would be if you had the same number of GLOBs from one country on each team as IMPs.  And that's not going to happen.

Johnston could have come in day 1 and said "no more forced GLOBs or GLOB draft", but he's too busy moving the goal posts.

[theaardvark]

Marketing rarely hits 100% immediately.  Sure, you got Hansen's Mon and Dad, and maybe some cousins... but eventually the more eyeballs you get to check it out because a local is playing, the more chance you get of getting a "Hey, you really should check out the CFL" around the water cooler, or after church... its a building thing, it takes time

[Sir Blue and Gold]

Aardvark is right on this one.

And without the global program what is the plan to try and generate interest in non traditional markets?

Haven't heard a better one.

Again, I'd do away with the ratio yesterday if I could. But if we're going to have one under the theory that it generates interest, then it makes sense to apply the theory everywhere.

It is certainly better than doing nothing and being all out of ideas. Which is how the league operated for long enough to get itself into trouble to begin with.