One poster ventured a guess that maybe, just maybe, people don't like to pay money and spend hours of their weekend watching a team with no star players and terrible fundamentals lose by double digits.
the marketing department organized the blackout vs Arizona. All that work, all the fans who worked to show up were blessed with a god awful performance than just showed the difference in the top of the pac12 and the base. If anything, kem should be blaming the basketball team and the architect for laying an egg when they had a chance to get more butts in the seats by being even slightly competitive or entertaining.
A shitty basketball team can't compete with a sunny weekend in February, I went to the game but really thought about just staying home and cleaning the gutters instead. When fans would rather do chores than go to the games, you have a problem. When you've lost the students it's game over. Walking over to Hec Ed there were tons of students out running, playing soccer, playing football etc.. yet only 25-30 of them bothered to show up for the game. Marketing? The team does their own marketing by losing constantly and based on attendance I'd say they're succeeding.
The guy just fundamentally does not understand sports. He was making the same kind of arguments with Husky stadium the last few years. He seriously believes a random ad campaign, a couple YouTube videos, and cheerleaders throwing t-shirts at half time is gonna turn hundreds of people into fans. He simply does not get it.
People forget that sports is entertainment and that you go to be entertained (for the most part). If you aren't offering an entertaining product, you better be winning. If you aren't winning, you better be offering up a damn entertaining product that provides hope for the future. If you are doing neither ... you've got problems.
I was just about to say that it's about time that KJV starts blaming and deflecting everything away from Romar and onto everybody else. It's clearly the fans' fault that the team is losing because of a lack of support.Anybody that can't see that this was a flawed team to start the year that had a nice stretch due to Upshaw being able to find ways to erase their flaws/mistakes but finally started to get exposed for what they were (being highly mediocre) early in the conference season and then Romar deciding to get out in front of it all by dismissing Upshaw so that the average idiot would blame the dreckfest on Upshaw's drug problems and not on the fact that Romar's recruiting for YEARS has been terrible and that's before talking about player development, preparedness of his team, or in-game coaching ever comes to the table that Romar's been lacking in for at least 81% of his tenure, then I don't know what to tell you.
I wonder how Griswold would explain the Seattle Mariners phenomenon. Here's a team where all they do is marketing. They personally cater to the game attendee who does not care about the outcome of the game, and their attendance is abysmal. I guarantee that if someone started a thread a week from now on dawgman questioning why people don't attend mariners games, Kent would say something like "who wants to go watch bad baseball? Until they fix the team, no one will want to waste their day going."
I wonder how Griswold would explain the Seattle Mariners phenomenon. Here's a team where all they do is marketing. They personally cater to the game attendee who does not care about the outcome of the game, and their attendance is abysmal. I guarantee that if someone started a thread a week from now on dawgman questioning why people don't attend mariners games, Kent would say something like "who wants to go watch bad baseball? Until they fix the team, no one will want to waste their day going." I heard a Mariner radio spot the other day, where some actor is pretending to be a business owner who bought four season tickets and then took a client to the game and got more business (or something like that). He was like, "Shazam! The tickets already paid for themselves."I found it off-putting in the sense that this is not what going to a ballgame on a summer evening is supposed to represent.
the marketing department organized the blackout vs Arizona. All that work, all the fans who worked to show up were blessed with a god awful performance than just showed the difference in the top of the pac12 and the base. If anything, kem should be blaming the basketball team and the architect for laying an egg when they had a chance to get more butts in the seats by being even slightly competitive or entertaining. I was surprised how much noise they made when the team was down double digits to AZ. Something was fishy.
Fetters can be a huge Romar apologist too. I remember finally going off on him 3-4 years ago when he kept trotting out lame excuses. With Fetters it's more disingenuous bullshit to keep up access as he's smart enough to know better.
Kent has some ideas. First he would like there to be an application process for getting into the Dawgpack. Only fans who demonstrate on their application how WILD AND CRAZY they are will get to sit in the coveted Dawgpack section. Second, he would like them to dim the lights when the team enters the court. Third, he would like the BBQ to be brought back.He finished his business plan by reiterating that saying the product is bad is just lame and lazy. After all, "we didn't close down dawgman when Tyrone was here" (real quote)All I can say is, "how do I hire this guy as a consultant to manage my business?"
