Post-Season starting to shake down and shake out for CFL
The CFL started to lurch into its post-season with the full implications of the football administration salary cap coming into focus and the sneaky suspicion the CFL was cutting off its nose to spite its face.
This cap was brought in by the CFL as a pre-emptive strike across the bows of the CFL Players Association who are going to ask for an increase in the players’ salary cap and increase in minimum salary for players. The CFLPA was/is going to argue the increase in salaries for coaches/general managers or any combination thereof including an increase in the number of quality assistant coaches justified the players asking for a piece of the action going to football administration types.
The football administration cap is set out to be $2.58 million for 2019 with a top end of coaches set at 11 and 14 football operations personnel. Teams that are over the cap would be fined whatever amount the team exceeded for the first $100,000, and for teams that went over that amount, the team would be fined an additional $25,000 plus lose a second round draft pick to a maximum of $250,000 and losing three draft picks. This not include whatever individual fines would be deemed appropriate
In 2019 there would only be team and not individual fines levied. Included in the cap will be expenses like wages, salary benefits, playoff bonuses that exceed player playoff bonuses, health plan and car/housing allowances.