There’s a third possibility. Maybe Pike’s strategy is to only window dress in the elite market right now to get a better feel for what it’s going to take and how high to bid. He might think that it’s better to first secure his remaining guys and a couple role players so that when he goes after the pair of high rollers, he knows what strengths he must go after that he wont be able to compensate for elsewhere.
The good news for us about what we’re targeting now, we won’t have any stars who have egos that need to be managed - nobody is going to be offended by the 7 figure offers we might throw out to buy a few established starters. If we have 10 role player types locked in with $3M to work with, we can then play ball and go after 2 guys that fit the best and then a possible 3rd with whatever is leftover. How do we know that isn’t the plan?
