Frank Seravalli
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Well, and...
to be fair, even the outsider that would come in, the first question that I would ask would be, how long would it take for your outside view and approach to be beaten out of you based on how the Vancouver organization has worked?
I mean, look, let's be fair.
This is an organization that
for all their pluses and minuses has an ownership group that is very intermingled and intertwined into every single aspect that ha that takes place or runs its course.
Um, that isn't the norm.
Uh, there are other teams that, that is the case, but it's not kind of like it is in Vancouver.
And the fact that they decided to go with, in the end, three people who are familiar with that, I don't know if that's good or bad.
I really don't.
And I think we have to take a step back and let everyone work and let's see what changes are made.
I could tell you nightmare stories from around the league as to how some of these teams are operated.
that it really is like a toy chest that almost none of these teams are run like a true business.
There are communication gaps.
There are sometimes zero processes at all.
There are decisions being made in vacuums.
There is no, like, I know a team earlier this year at the trade deadline that was,
looking at lists on their board of players that they might target that they didn't even bother to update that already included players that are on their roster.
I wish I could tell you in full how much of a mess I believe some of these teams have been operated.
And it takes someone to come in and clean a lot of that up.
And I do think the one thing that...