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According to Jacobs, who was part of the league negotiating team that met with the union Monday in Toronto, "A bit of reality may finally be entering the process -- I don't want to be too optimistic here, but I am guardedly optimistic."
Although he would not be specific, Jacobs said the players, following a caucus that lasted more than three hours, returned to the owners with a variety of informal proposals on a salary cap system. The various salary ranges suggested by the players, said Jacobs, were dollar amounts -- minimum and maximum -- based on the league's projected gross revenues.
If that sounds like linkage -- a concept tying salaries to revenues that thus far has been rejected by the Players Association -- it also sounded that way to Jacobs at first, too.
Although he would not be specific, Jacobs said the players, following a caucus that lasted more than three hours, returned to the owners with a variety of informal proposals on a salary cap system. The various salary ranges suggested by the players, said Jacobs, were dollar amounts -- minimum and maximum -- based on the league's projected gross revenues.
If that sounds like linkage -- a concept tying salaries to revenues that thus far has been rejected by the Players Association -- it also sounded that way to Jacobs at first, too.
---> Boston Globe <-----
You mean there are signs of movement???? 
