Bonuses are not typical in real life except for draftees.  I prefer to keep things as is, so I do NOT approve of this new rule.

I do NOT approve.  We already have a rule on the books for buyouts.

500K

Colby,

Don't beat yourself up over this.  You didn't do anything wrong.  Will all due respect to the RC, Colby made a decision in response to my question a few days before FA started, and he posted it on the main board.  Everything was quite "transparent" as Jake would say, and NO ONE from the RC posted a protest.  NO ONE at the time even suggested that such a "ruling" be brought before the RC.  Complaints about this only came up weeks after the fact when it was referred to in other posts.  By then, the genie was out of the bottle, because several owners did the same thing as me.  I'm pretty sure that most people who read Colby's original decision on the matter just accepted the it in the same manner as when Colby told us that we could not retract the high bid prior to it being the "winning" bid as defined in the league rules for bidding on free agents.

Roy

One other thing before we leave this seemingly endless debate.

Can we pro-rate bonuses for draft picks and retain the future right to re-sign them on a prospect contract?