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2. Community involvement and project organizing ability.

As you read through this section, I would ask that you consider the following quotes from Coco and Jelme. What I am going to suggest, is that the Community building aspect of this job, may actually be the most important part, and the reason I think you should actually give more credibility to this, than any of the other categories I am speaking on. I ask you to consider these quotes simply for context.

Coco: “I agree that the choice between Jason and Namssor is not as substantial as some people take it to be. The NT will need a couple of truly elite big men. If it gets them, it will be competitive and, assuming decent game shape, the manager has relatively little room to screw it up (e.g. by mismanaging enthusiasm). If it doesn't get them, neither Jason nor Namssor will be able to do better than what we achieved, and it won't be their fault. I'm somewhat confident that neither of them will screw things up.”

Jelme: “I'm not sure what you are asking for? You can discuss NT stuff wherever you wish. @Smedlock If Jason is willing to listen and take in information he'll be fine. I'm pretty sure everyone involved will help out and at this stage knowledge/experience is almost trivial. We have enough accumulated through the program. The NT coach is a figurehead and the biggest job is delegation and building the community. Jason is the better person for that job. I've interacted with him before and he has always been super helpful and VERY responsive.”

I want to make it clear up front that although I believe that the community building aspect of this job is the most important aspect of the job, I am not saying that to diminish the importance of the NT coach managing the team, choosing tactics and strategies. The reason I believe this is simple. As you know, the NT coach has scouts, tactical advisors, number crunchers etc. that analyze all of the data needed to set tactics and strategy. Everything from game shape, roster choices, tactics, call ups etc. is discussed in the offsite forum. Ultimately the final decisions are of course up to the NT coach, but that said, if the NT coach were choosing crazy abnormal strategies that were not good for the team, this would be abundantly clear. Like the above quotes show, the NT coach, whether it’s me despite the lack of hands on NT experience, or Namssor and all of the experience he brings, the discussions and strategy sessions will be the same. The encouragement, support, help, and assistance will all be the same. The guidance and direction that the NT community and staff offers, will be the same regardless of who is the NT coach. Just know that despite my emphasis on the importance of the community building, I am more than capable of making the tactical and NT team strategy decisions as well. I will go into that later. But I will have input, guidance and help just like Namssor would.

So, why do I feel that the community building aspect of this job makes me the perfect candidate? Running the national team, is largely a group effort. Again, the NT coach makes final decisions, but the staff, and the offsite NT community contributes thoughts and ideas to this. If I do not win this election, and am invited to be part of the staff, I would in a heartbeat. And I would love to help Jfarb continue his efforts in this regard. But I think we all know, that my efforts to grow the NT community and encourage people to do things for the benefit of the NT team, will carry significantly more weight and impact if I am the actual NT coach, versus just being part of the staff. As Jfarb has built this community he has spent tireless hours speaking to encouraging people to do things for the benefit of the team that were in many cases counterproductive for the team owner’s individual team.

2. Community involvement and project organizing ability. Continued.....

But as the NT coach, and the person guiding this mission, he was in a position to encourage things like this, and motivate, because he was the guiding force behind the plan. Jfarb has had much assistance and help behind the scenes in building the community, but in the end, it was his word, and his actions that helped grow this community to where it is. And it’s not just the community of people participating on the offsite forum, or people taking an interest and caring about our National Team. It’s his ability and determination to get owners of US players to train them a certain way, to build power house players, and not let them go to less capable individuals. My point to all of this is not to keep touting Jfarb, but to tie this into the very things I do already. Now, for perspective, clearly the things I do in the community are not near as beneficial as guiding and directing people to build players that are going to bring home the Gold.

But understand, I have spent a lot of time, answering and sending BB-mails for various things. I built a Federation that has 105 people. Now, in truth, the Federation has largely grown on its own, but it’s been able to do that because of my initial efforts in laying the foundation. I just put together a Private League Network. To start, we have 60 teams in 6 different leagues! This was not easy to do! It took over a month to get make this happen. It required getting many who were anxious to join an available private league to wait weeks, even over a month for this one to start. It took building and assigning the leagues, and then delegating the responsibility to various team owners to create the leagues and set them up, and to be able to synchronize them together. My point is, I already know how to, and am prepared to do what it takes to motivate people to join this NT community, to help us build the best players in the world!

I was a Stock Broker for 6 years. I helped my clients buy investments in other companies. But I didn’t choose just any stock on the stock exchange. I actually took the time to contact CEO’s and CFO’s of these corporations and developed relationships with them. I was able to convince to fly to Phoenix and visit our office. I was able to convince them to value me as a guy that could build interest in their company and stock! That experience has helped me to become someone who knows how to bring people together for common interests. That experience has taught me how to motivate others to do things that can be beneficial for everyone involved, even if it requires extra effort, or sacrifice on the front end.

I am more prepared, and more determined than anyone else in this election to do just that! I am the one guy in this election who has the ability, to establish goals and projects and turn them into plans of action. Additionally, the network of people I have already developed relationships with, and even friendships with that include some of the best owners in this game, put me in a position to get some of the brightest minds in the USA to join our team and to help build the kind of players we need to be the best in the world!


Last edited by Jason at 7/31/2011 4:05:58 AM

omg.. wall of words!

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Interesting read bud.
Definitely passionate about the job Jase, as everyone who knows you already knows. :)

Anyone who can sit down and think all that through would get my vote.

lol ... come do our Malaysian NT

Last edited by Simply Vince at 7/31/2011 4:28:38 AM

You missed a serious candidate with a subserious campaign. Fatcurry. He may be the best qualified of all the candidates.

You missed a serious candidate with a subserious campaign. Fatcurry. He may be the best qualified of all the candidates.

If he had any intention of being NT coach, I would be taking him more than seriously! I am glad he's just messing around by throwing his name into this :-)

Last edited by Jason at 7/31/2011 12:28:56 PM

You have my vote for sure!

I'd like to take just a moment to throw in my two cents worth here. At a time when so much political polarization exists, it's nice to have great candidates in a race. That is to say, I don't have to run down all the candidates but can focus on the good points of the one I choose to vote for: GM-Jason. If we focus on what he has accomplished, his quick grasp of the game, his unfailing attention to details—things like always answering BB-mails, giving credit to those who have helped him, his sense of humor even when criticized—and his devotion and dedication to BB, then I feel that he will make an ideal NT manager. He has my vote!

Last edited by Pappy ODaniel at 7/31/2011 2:20:07 PM

3. Time. Both the ability and willingness to dedicate to BuzzerBeater and the NT program.

Early on in this campaign process it was questioned whether I would have the interest or time to put into this. The funny thing about that is that anyone who knows me knows I am on BuzzerBeater probably more than any other person in the world. I am in Real Estate, so when I am not at home or with clients, I am in a Star Bucks working from my computer. Last night I was in a softball tournament, and my friends and teammates were making fun of me because in between each inning I was on my Droid watching my game checking in with the latest action.

I am always on BuzzerBeater. I am always around. I am constantly checking in with things, answering BB Mails, and working on the various projects I have going on. I keep spreadsheets on every detail of my team. I track our minutes, game shape, DMI; I even keep track of all of my experience pops :-)
I promise to give this same attention to the NT team should I be elected. And actually, even if I am not elected, I am still committed to giving a full effort to help in any way the NT coach needs me to. I have the passion and drive to commit myself to the program and ensure that our NT team continues to grow and develop and put ourselves in the best possible position to win it all!

The bottom line is I have the interest, and flexibility in schedule to dedicate myself to working with our Staff to make the best possible decisions for our team, and to work extremely hard to develop our presence n the community and to bring more people in to help us accomplish our goals of developing the best home grown players in the world!

And as evidenced by his vacation and absence right now, It sort of seems he wasn't planning to run himself.

This might be the dumbest thing I've ever read on here. I'm supposed to not go on a weekend bachelor party for one of my best friends in the whole world (that has been planned for 6 months) because I'm running for an internet election?

Are you freaking kidding me?

As I have already said, I had been planning to run the entire past season, that's why I was jfarb's assistant coach. I know you've bragged about logging on over 4000 times in the last 6 months, but I'm not going to apologize for having an outside life. I planned ahead, set my lineups, and didn't need to log in.

I've tried to play nice with all of this, but this is absolutely pathetic to say, man.

And as evidenced by his vacation and absence right now, It sort of seems he wasn't planning to run himself.

This might be the dumbest thing I've ever read on here. I'm supposed to not go on a weekend bachelor party for one of my best friends in the whole world (that has been planned for 6 months) because I'm running for an internet election?

Are you freaking kidding me?

As I have already said, I had been planning to run the entire past season, that's why I was jfarb's assistant coach. I know you've bragged about logging on over 4000 times in the last 6 months, but I'm not going to apologize for having an outside life. I planned ahead, set my lineups, and didn't need to log in.

I've tried to play nice with all of this, but this is absolutely pathetic to say, man.

Okay, if I am wrong about that, I apologize.

Let's play nice boys...