With the February break on for schools across the province, the last thing students, educators and parents want to hear about is report cards.

TSN’s Glen Suitor falls into that category. After the NFL launched a successful grievance against their union over the publishing of team report cards, Suits believes that the CFLPA’s report cards should remain private.

“Why wouldn’t the PA first do it privately and then, if there are grievances and issues that they have with the clubs that aren’t addressed by the clubs, then go public down the road. You know that’s to add a little more pressure to go public and make it happen that way. But start first, and maybe the PA is already doing this a little bit.”

“I haven’t talked to Solomon Elimian, Suitor added. “I will. I’ve tried to reach out, so I will get to him, see what they’ve actually done privately, and try to do it. But if you just say we’re going to do a report card, it’s going to be anonymous, so there’ll be no names attached to any of these report card grades, and we’re going to air our grievances in public, and the teams will be forced and pushed to change. Start privately, and if no changes are made, you can go public later. What that would do is it would help to strengthen the relationship between the CFL PA and the CFL.”

The TSN analyst added, “I think what we want to do as a league and as a PA is strengthen the bond. Strengthen the fact and the trust level so that you know that if you’re a player, you know that the teams are legitimately trying to do the best they can to accommodate your issues.”

They’re trying to pay you as much as they can within the realm of you know how much the clubs are making or not making. And that is all a balancing act. I get it.

But let’s not do something that will cause more issues, polarize the two sides, or make them angry with each other if it’s avoidable.

Hear the entire conversation at SportsCage.com.

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