gilded.lady

Warning from the PR people would have been nice to help avoid the girls running over the reporters, but that's about the extent of what difference it would have made. I have a feeling stuff goes on all the time on the field during pre-game, but maybe just not during the first pre-season game. At the end of it, the DCC is a small cog in a large machine and just has to work around distractions. As for keeping Simone and Kat - I'm wondering if they were kept because they were worried 32 would have been too few since clearly injuries do take down girls (and probably more often than we necessarily see). Agree though that unless they improve significantly during the season or turn out to be huge hits on appearances, that they'll be one and done vets.

There is no way the difference between 34 and 36 girls is a budget issue. Consider: - The girls get paid nothing for training camp. - The girls get something like $50 a home game. - A majority of appearances are unpaid. - Expenses such as uniforms, make-up, etc. are born by the girls - Big expensive trips (like the calendar shoot) never take the full squad. The difference between 34 and 36 girls on the bottom line is basically zero. 36 is the easiest to choreograph around (they have four groups, so you ideally want a multiple of four for the number of girls on your squad) but they aren't going to be told no you can't have those two extra girls it doesn't hurt the organization at all.

That was absolutely brutal to watch and I was surprised they let go all four, but at the same point I couldn't fault that decision. They just weren't up to par, period. It does make me wonder though if some of those cuts should have been made earlier in camp - like Tyler. Girls who are on the bubble for kicks practically never make the team. Waiting til the very end and then having a masscare just adds insult to injury to the girls cut.