If you want excited fans in the seats then focus all the energy on winning on every level of the program. The problem as I see it is having and promoting an enabling mindset. Fans vote with their pocketbooks and time. You want full stadiums and arenas then stop defending incompetence and mediocrity. I want to puke everytime I hear or read somebody saying that a program is getting better when the facts disagree. There seems to be no end to or creative means wasted when it came to defending 3DB. And right up until and including when he left. The same with Romar, is he or isn't his product superior?
I don't believe a fan site is a truly a fan site if the format and character is enabling of mediocrity. The site might provide information a fan wants which has a value in it's own, but once the site begins labeling the customers the fans as malcontents because they don't tow the mark and assume enabling behavior, it's not a fan site. I can remember being labeled a half brain because I was not towing the company line. At some sites you are not going to be allowed to express the truth or blow off steam. How does a program fill seats and gain a rabid fan base if it has fake fans sites and an administration that embraces lies and mediocrity? Sark needed to go after the losing streak in year three, by then it was clear that his potential was capped out. Romar's potential is capped out too. Anyway, I could go on about this but what's the sense, it is what it is.
great post