NZR CEO Mark Robinson Resigns
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Might be good to have someone from outside of Rugby but versed in professional sport.
Don't follow cricket much, but from what little I've seen, NZ seems to have it's act together and pretty well run.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in NZR CEO Mark Robinson Resigns:
Might be good to have someone from outside of Rugby but versed in professional sport.
Don't follow cricket much, but from what little I've seen, NZ seems to have it's act together and pretty well run.
David White is former ceo of Auckland rugby, Blues, Wellington rugby and Hurricanes. Also had time at Bristol. Admittedly this was all 15+ years ago.
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David White certainly gets around a la David Moffett
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GM of a $5B (thanks AI) major sporting franchise for a decade and a kiwi that might be more open to moving to NZ rather than someone else seems like a good starting point
Nets might not have won anything but sports is also ruthless and so to not get the sack before now suggests everything off the court was going ok?....and i think there are off the pitch things that need to be sorted
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@Tim said in NZR CEO Mark Robinson Resigns:
Liam Napier said that Sean Marks is not in the mix.
I can't see why he'd want to. The Nets aren't exactly a top franchise. But he's built a reputation as a capable executive, and the NBA is a collosus compared to NZR
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@mohikamo said in NZR CEO Mark Robinson Resigns:
But Brooklyn basketball is not a colossus campared to New Zealand rugby.
Commercially bigger, but not that much bigger.
As to on-court/on-field comparison, not in the same ball-par.k.The NBA is though
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@canefan said in NZR CEO Mark Robinson Resigns:
The NBA is though
You'd be comparing the NBA to WR.
WR would have to be the most underperforming sport, in a commercial sense, on the planet!
Plenty, plenty, of scope for commercial growth.
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@mohikamo said in NZR CEO Mark Robinson Resigns:
@canefan said in NZR CEO Mark Robinson Resigns:
The NBA is though
You'd be comparing the NBA to WR.
WR would have to be the most underperforming sport, in a commercial sense, on the planet!
Plenty, plenty, of scope for commercial growth.
NBA are kind of maxed out, in marketing terms.Although I see where you are coming from and agree he isn't the right person, the NBA is incredibly performance-focused, stats-driven, and has a great mix of teams that focus on culture as a part of performance (Spurs-style) which would be his key attribute for success in the role. If we are looking for people who understand the correspondence of those factors against marketing, I can't think of many who have a better background.
The core issue for me is that WR doesn't operate in the best interests of the game and is even more political, so operating in that environment would be completely foreign to Marks. I can't see him translating his capability across at the most important part of the job.
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@gt12 said in NZR CEO Mark Robinson Resigns:
@mohikamo said in NZR CEO Mark Robinson Resigns:
@canefan said in NZR CEO Mark Robinson Resigns:
The NBA is though
You'd be comparing the NBA to WR.
WR would have to be the most underperforming sport, in a commercial sense, on the planet!
Plenty, plenty, of scope for commercial growth.
NBA are kind of maxed out, in marketing terms.Although I see where you are coming from and agree he isn't the right person, the NBA is incredibly performance-focused, stats-driven, and has a great mix of teams that focus on culture as a part of performance (Spurs-style) which would be his key attribute for success in the role. If we are looking for people who understand the correspondence of those factors against marketing, I can't think of many who have a better background.
The core issue for me is that WR doesn't operate in the best interests of the game and is even more political, so operating in that environment would be completely foreign to Marks. I can't see him translating his capability across at the most important part of the job.
WR and NZR are incompetent and act like amateurs which would be foreign to Marks
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At the elite level NZR would have a few things in common with an NBA franchise.
But an NBA franchise doesn't have to overly concern itself with the rest of the sport, which NZR does.
The NCAA and the state federations take care of all that.
So in that respect it is a lot different.
Both big businesses tho.As for WR, fuuuck.
I think the amateur legacy has a lot to do with it.
They were the last sport to adopt professionalism.
Some of the crazy attitudes and positions held by the amateur establishment would make a religious fundamentalist proud.
But . . . I can remember when the NBA was nothing special, and making losses.
I'd say the Bird/Johnson era in the 80's changed everything for the NBA, changed the way the game was actually played, and changed all the finances.
Since then everything has been "up and to the right."
So . . . there is hope for rugby.
