Friedel is the only one of those who has just been hired to a high-profile position in the league. Lampson is protected by the player's union. But also, what Minnman said.
May I suggest that every time you see a negative article about Precourt that you tweet it to him. Kindly remind him that this will be his legacy. People everywhere will remember him for this. It will color every business deal he will ever do. People will always doubt him. No one will trust him. No one will like him. It will be in his obituary. Wikipedia will be filled with negative information. Scrooge McPrecourt. Yes, I believe he will read every one of them.It's not too late for him to change.
The narrative that grinds my gears the most is hearing Austin peeps and some other randoms, saying that there was no support for the team here. They keep alluding to the stadium being 90% empty instead of 90% full. Or the other logic that even if you dont agree with the owner you must keep giving that person money. That logic is flawed...I support the team but kept my wallet closed to Precourt over the last 3 years. Yes, I understand I was an outlier that didnt trust him from the get go, and yes my protest fell into the narrative he wanted. But to only argue the surface doesnt work except for the simple minded. Precourt failed at everything below the top of the iceberg.
Are they seriously saying "90% empty"? Because that's 2,000 people. I think we'd see that in the numbers.
Im generalizing with the polar opposites....per different arguments one would think we were sitting with 2000 people...with the stadium always less than half full. In reality we are sitting around 80% as the average for 2017. Using the % capacity logic, does that mean once a team dips bellow 80% capacity their fans no longer support the team? Im just irritated by the straw man argument "lack of fan support". I also think our big dog sponsors have withheld their support because they saw through the bullshit....plus they were already use to dealing with the other trust fund kids (hunt jrs). Companies like Nationwide have powerful marketing arms, they need to see that its in their best interest to sponsor something.....Precourt's decisions did not encourage top dollar deals....but Precourt assumes that it should just happen....cause his daddy said he could always get whatever he wants. Cardinal Health is #15 on the fortune 500 list, and Im sure he hates that they dont splash money at him. Yet he thinks some random tech company in Austin will splash money.....they are not known for sponsoring physical assets....and most of their value is based on VC valuation with no real money in the bank.
Easy, Sport. I was just seeing if the Austin astroturfers were really that stupid, which is entirely plausible.
Well, there is this actual Tweet from an actual Tweeter thingie, which has since been taken down but which they seem to believe; the photo is of a Sunday morning college scrimmage and is pre-Fatboy (note the pre-fire scoreboard): basically every single word of it is a lie.
The Nationwide marketing comment is spot on. Nationwide, Cardinal Health, Wendy’s, Scott’s etc are Big national advertisers. It’s MLS and Precourt that didn’t meet their standards. He’s complaining about the Columbus market. Fact is it was his product that never met the standard they were expecting.
I've been saying this for 20 years: local ownership. Lack of it is why this is happening. The presence of it would solve any and all problems.
That should be embarrassing, but it's clear they have no shame and are thus incapable of embarrassment.
Yeah, Matt Bernhardt jumped on them pretty quickly as it was his photo. They went radio silent and it was gone the next day. That account is utter trash.
No community support for @ColumbusCrewSC ??? @DogTapColumbus served 729 pints of #CrewBrew tonight. #SaveTheCrew #Columbus. @BrewDogUSA pic.twitter.com/LsfkZJXtay— Carson (@jamcarson) November 18, 2017
just found this on reddit OpenWideForSUMSoccer 1 month ago* Maybe this is all just a momentary blip on the radar, but it feels like this is could be a real moment in the history of US soccer. Between this and the national team World Cup disaster last week, we're starting to see behind the curtain a bit more - and what we're seeing is a runaway blend of incompetence and complete indifference towards anything other than the bottom line. Certainly, a lot of people were already there in regards to their low opinion of USSF and/or MLS. But I think these 2 weeks could very well do a lot to move many more people over to that end. It's not just that we didn't qualify for the World Cup - it's that folks like Gulati and Arena have reacted with thinly veiled disgust at the idea that they're facing criticism. it's not just that MLS is executing the soulless, corporate NFL playbook - it's that they're doing this to one of the OG's of MLS. They're doing this to Columbus, they're doing this to community that has real historical importance to really anyone who has followed American soccer at least for the past two decades. If Columbus can be dropped, then really nothing matters and nobody is safe in pursuit of profit maximization. MLS has pretty cynically weaponized our concern for the 'fate of American soccer' over the past several years. They know that a lot of us remember what it was like when we legitimately weren't sure whether MLS would survive, or if soccer had a future in this country, when the only way to follow the sport was to try to follow along on BigSoccer megathreads and watch shitty streams or go to cavernous football stadiums where you and a couple of dozen others were the only fans on offer. And they've bottled up that anxiety and tried to keep MLS fans in that mindset forever. From a business standpoint, it was a brilliant strategy. Your MLS fan is on average that much more passionate about their favorite team's business model than pretty much anyone other than Ted Westervelt - they will go to the mat and never stop fighting when it comes to arguing what is ultimately the right of Stan Kroenke or Bob Kraft or Anthony Precourt to maintain a central role in the direction of soccer in this country with a vision that includes little to no concern for either the players (labor who must be crushed) or fans (just consumers, and worth selling out for a bigger pie chart), heavily regulated cost-controls to minimize investment where possible, and taxpayer funded stadiums. And if you complain, you'll just get the NASL failing 35 years ago as the permanent and unavoidable boogeyman. Now Columbus will go by the wayside too, all for the 'greater good,' which isn't the good of the sport but just what's good for the pockets of a handful of millionaires and billionaires.
Wow. Well done. Spot on. Thanks. I believe I can see clearly, and for the first time, can now put into words - where the US has come up short internationally. We have lacked soul.
If MLS really cared about the US Soccer National team, they would stop making rules to import more foreign players. American footballers first. We don't need a globalist football league where American footballers lose their jobs to imported foreigners.
You guys need to read this. Arace let's Precum have it with both barrels. Celebrate in Austin with your president of Precourt Sports Ventures, Dave Greeley.https://t.co/pbwi0c3IKw— Columbus Dispatch (@DispatchAlerts) November 19, 2017