New owners - decisions by committee?

[Eggcentric@xxxxxxx]

<< This is not a good sign. They (our new owners) need to find a 
Bird, or Donnie Walsh type and just turn the basketball decisions 
over to them. >> - JBMetz

For sure, decisions by committee can be scary.  But I think we 
are jumping the gun a bit here when it comes to our beloved 
Celts. So please, a little calm in the courtroom.

Keep in mind that our two principals - Wyc and Steve -  have 
been enthusiastic season ticket holders and apparently on the 
same bball wave for years.  Also they will be the ONLY two 
owners with full operating control.  Wyc's dad along with the
fourth principal (The Abbey Group - local real estate 
developers) were brought in with the understanding that they 
were to simply solidify the balance sheet and be allowed to 
sit directly behind Kedrick on the bench at home games 
sporting large plastic "I am an owner " name tags
 
Wyc Sr. will surely ditto his son and Steve's ideas, while the 
Abbey Group will threaten Fleet Center landlord Jeremy Jacobs 
by serving as a decoy in planning for yet another new Celt home 
come 2011 when the team's present Fleet Center lease expires.  
After all, as cushiony as our present Fleet Center lease is, the 
loss of revenue from all those beers and dawgs cannot be 
overlooked concerning our 12-man roster's bottom line. 

If so many feel that "decisions by committee " are dysfunctional 
(juries vs. a judge?), then the principals must also recognize 
this.  And don't you think said new consortium will employ 
a GM - hopefully not Wallace but one who they are in sync with, 
have confidence in, and are likely to honor his/her decisions?  
Maybe they will be clever enough to name either Tammo or 
Jackie McMullen to the position.  But whoever they name, the 
GM's decisions will likely need rubber-stamping only from 
Wyc and Steve, not from the cast of thousands some are now 
envisioning.

As for the six-man executive committee which sounds so 
unwieldy, it is structured to include the above four principals 
plus two more masthead-only, sorely-needed, bulging-walleted, 
egotistically-driven  "I own the Celtics " investors.   

But wait - if the above silky smooth plan should fail, Wyc 
and Steve might well be forced to turn instead to hundreds of 
smaller investors.  Hell, they might even be forced to tap you
and me, JB, and Berry (you've got it, Mark, so why not flaunt it), 
and Snoop and DanForant, and Tammo and Joe H., and Cecil and 
JHill, and odds-on favorites Lappy and RickDHome - sheeeet man - 
even Lance and Leo  "The Eye " Papile, for $100 contributions.  

A sacrifice collectively made to the devil's leaving?  Admittedly 
said contribution to our team would be a shocking first for Leo. 
But under the circumstances of you being the highfalutin OWNER 
of a world-class Celt board, JB, your expected contribution might 
well be placed in the area of $102.  Ya never know.

Eggy