[max]

This guy is on with Cusumano in STL radio and he is saying that the STL town meeting has gotten the attention of the owners and they were very impressed with what STL did there. He said it is common to think that these meetings don't mean anything but STL changed that.

So is this guy credible?

[OldSchool]

He has no credibility at all. He's a criminal, he claims to have degrees from Universities that have no record of him going to them. He claims his company has worked on dozens of sports stadiums that they were not involved in. All I need to see is him credited as a source in an article and I discard it and automatically disregard the author and his opinions.

[BuiltRamTough]

Gaines for the past year has said the Rams will stay in STL bc the owners don't like Kroenke. I've listened 8-10 interviews of him over the past year. Fred Roggin blasted him a couple of months ago.

Chargers fans were as passionate and Oakland will be as well. Ticket sales are down in STL and up in OAK and SD. So yaaa.

[max]

Thanks.

Boy, this Ganis guy was really pouring it on in favor of STL. Some of the stuff he was saying I know was BS, so I got suspicious of him after a while.

[RedAlice]

California IN BRIEF : OAKLAND : Coliseum Marketing Director Dismissed

Marc Ganis, the man who produced the marketing plan to bring the Raiders back to Oakland, will be relieved of his duties "after this week," according to an Oakland Coliseum official. The announcement follows reports that Ganis falsified his credentials by claiming he had a law degree and a master's degree in business administration. Syracuse University officials said Ganis attended classes only periodically between 1980 and 1987, according to the San Jose Mercury News.

http://articles.latimes.com/1990-04-09/ ... d-coliseum

Quick google search shows him being sued regarding the Cubs stadium, accused of something re: the Panthers stadium and I remember from earlier this year the Charger fans thought he was doing some negative publicity regarding their San Diego stadium.

[Hacksaw]

Marc Ganis – President, SportsCorp. Ganis is president and founder of a Chicago-based sports business consulting firm. He's been involved in the development of more than two dozen sports facility projects including the new Yankee Stadium, Heinz Field, Toyota Center, and the Verizon Center.
http://www.bloomberg.com/ss/08/10/1002. ... mBloomberg L.P.

Other not so flattering articles on Ganis.
http://articles.latimes.com/keyword/marc-ganis

He is a wind bag from the windy city passing wind.

[OldSchool]

Thanks for looking those up guys I've researched him before but wasn't free enough to do that. Anytime somebody links Ganis just disregard them and their opinion.

[SoCalRam78]

biased troll who helped facilitate the rams move to the midwest in the mid 90s. naturally, he prefers the rams to say. His influence? worth the shit my dog dropped this am.

[TSFH Fan]

If Ganis is a straight shooter here, then the move is in trouble. He basically said if they get that plan through the aldermen then we can forget about the Rams getting approved for LA.

I think this is the upcoming wave in the NFL sponsored propaganda cycle. For tomorrow, Friday, when the Bill is introduced, I'm not going to be surprised if the media unleashes several stories about the NFL won't leave public money on the table sort of stuff.

Like, on Wednesday McKernan floated this out:

There’s a sense among some here that---even though it may not feel this way in St. Louis---it’s the 21st market in the country that could actually impact what happens in the 2nd market, because if St. Louis does what the Task Force has set out to do, the NFL cannot allow the Rams to move.

I don't know anyone out here who had that sense on Wednesday, but whatever.

Back to Ganis: I think he's a hired mouthpiece of a certain faction of owner -- clues: He relays rumor/innuendo that suggest the possibility of the Rams staying and he previously helped blast the Kephart plan in Oakland.