hey, they do it the leader of our country, why not for the leader of our sport.... personally, i think garber is doing a great job. think back to logan if you want a point of reference...
The only things that would make me happier with him are the elimination of overtime and another color, other than white on away kits league wide Everything else is moving in the right direction
I voted yes, but we are playing on artificial turf in three places. NahnahnahnahIcan'thearyou. Knock Logan all you like, but the dedication of his regime to playing MLS on grass was a sacred covenant with real soccer fans.NAhnahnahnahnah. Garber went to great lengths to establish his credibility with these fans when he first took the job, but I wonder if Don really grasps the grass factor. Diddydiddywoowoonahnahnahnahnah. NAH. I'd rather have the freakin' shootout than play on FieldTurf.NAHNAHNAHNAH.
FieldTurf isn't grass. But it is FIFA approved. Dragon Stadium won't serve beer. But it is lower rent than the Cotton Bowl ever was. I don't know about the comparison of soccer sight-lines. In 2004, Chicago will play home games on grass. Maybe even in 2003. Don grasps the factor of "we need MLS teams to play in stadiums that aren't huge financial burdens on the league."
I dont know much about this guy Garber, but Don Graber the commish is doing a fine job. The bottom line is improving and that is the bottom line.
For those that voted no, what more would you like to see from Garber? No sarcasm intended, I'm interested in hearing the other side
well, at least is better than nothing.... hehehe, joking... i think that he is taking the league in the right direction.... PLEASE kick metros out of GS and DC out of RFK!!!!!
Typically, if no one is speaking about Garber, he's doing a fairl good-decent job. It's only when you see threads popping up with Garber's name attached, that have nothing to do with state of the league nor expansion, that his approval rating will start to slide.
If he can pull off a 2 team expansion in 2005, keep MLS in business past 2006 and get NY and Dallas in their own stadiums by 2005 - I would put a poster of Garber in a speedo on my wall.
That ought to look good next to all your Robert Smith and Cure posters. The Don seems to be dealing with all the issues on all fronts. He himself emphasizes it's slow progress, and that's all we can expect. Northside points out the appropriate benchmarks: 2 expansion teams by '05, Dallas and Metros in their own stadium, keep MLS going past '06. Add steadily increasing attendance to that and more playoff games on tv and we're all set. I was going to say something else but I don't remember what it was. O yea. It's nice to see he's gotten out about the country recently. He was just in Colorado for some function or another and then this week in KC. Soon he's going to be in Chicago for some function. We need the Don out there to sell and communicate as much as possible, particularly since Anshutz is such a mysterious non-interviewer.
I think Garber has done a nice job of maintaining a status quo of sorts. Under his guidance we have lost two franchises, but a the possible benefit of saving 10 others. Attendance is slightly up. I think I credit the front office with that. Someone give me some examples. What has Garber done so wonderful or so terrible that you can answer this poll. I have not seen any drastic change either way in the last few years. Key word: drastic!
I'm mad about the Mutiny and Fusion. But if it works positive for the league and he continues his good approval rating on here, I will stick with him.
i was angry about the mutiny and fusion going defunct as well. the fusion probably could have been MLS Cup 2002 champs. But Garber made a good choice. Would you rather lose both florida teams or have no more soccer games period. now even though ive done some bashing of florida fans myself, in some future expansion(not next time maybe the next though) they could come back to Tampa Bay. I choose TB over Miami because TB generally draws more people in all sports including soccer a few years. sorry if i got kinda OT Oh and the Fire are moving back to soldier at the end of the year so we'll be on grass in 2003. YES!
Eerily accurate in its detail. In his first month on the job, he made the following rule changes: 1. Eliminated the Shootout 2. Allowed for Tie Games 3. Clocks Run up and Not Down 4. Allowed Refs to add stoppage time Quick and drastic. Easy changes but not entirely unimportant. Soon followed with more varied and traditional uniforms and a league wide sales strategy to increase ticket sales which produced tangible results in 2001 and 2002. There are more - but these I think can be directly attributed to Mr Garber.
While many people may bash the idea of contraction it was a fantastic move on his part and I believe that more sports should pay attention (BASEBALL!).
I think he has done an excellent job. He was smart for going with the traditional rules and uniforms that true fans like. I think this has slowly brought back the hardcore fan to MLS. His ticket stratey really seems to be working. His legacy will be that he kept the league going while it was at the point of a meltdown(1999) and now has it in a growth mode. The main thing now is to expand and get more owners. If he can do that, he would be perfect.
I think Garbers best additions to the league were getting rid of the onfield gimmicks. The clock, shootout and injury time that Northside mentioned. I also agree that contraction was a necessary evil. Hopefully in a few years MLS will be back in Florida. But with the league wide sales strategy mentioned a few times here, what is that? I haven't heard of any league wide coordinated strategy.