Dallas reverts to form
By: Sean | May 31st, 2008It’s front office CYA vs. big-bucks bagmen in this year’s MLS drama factory, FC Dallas:
A couple of points:
– Hunt Sports Group has suffered priaprism for Hyndman for years. This isn’t some knee-jerk hire. And it’s arguable that the people at HSG have a greater clue than Hitchcock. It’s their money, so they’re going to call the tune.
- To that end, I’m hoping Hitchcock has the resumé all prettied up and ready to go … unless what he really wanted from this job was to be held responsible for terrible ticket sales and trampled-down training pitches.
- It seems like MLS has jumped up sharply in expectations in the last couple of years. Is attendance now lagging perception, instead of the other way around?
- If you’ve ever had a boss fired, you know this shit trickles downhill. The new guy’s going to come in looking for someone associated with the old guy, usually someone good who’s gotten by with some idiosyncracies, and he’s gonna go after that guy. Some kind of primate dominance thing. If I’m, say, Pablo Ricchetti, I’m praying the ankles and hammys are good to go.
- For all the crying about needing a more professional outlook from the players in MLS, both from us fútnards and our beloved imported players, it’s not for lack of trying. It takes situations like this one to create that outlook – the front office feels pressure to produce, in both asses-in-seats and success-on-field perspectives, and exerts that pressure to perform on the staff and players. The pressure to perform is how a professional outlook emerges. And we’re getting there.
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As a Dallas fan, it sure seems like the rest of the league is moving forward with great strides in big time players, fans in the stands, and new sponsorships, and my club has the peddle to the metal with the trani in reverse.
This team has been at it for 16 years and has one Trophy to show for it, no shirt sponsor, a season ticket base of about 3500, and is now struggling to get more then 10k fans to a non Beckham home game. Meanwhile in Seattle, (my personal nemesis) where they have yet to play an MLS match, they have relevant shirt sponsor and a season ticket base of around 16k. Salt Lake may be the worst team in the league, but at least there arrow is pointing up. FC Dallas may be the worst franchise in the league and I see no signs of that changing.
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They have been at it for 13 years. I Don’t know where 16 came from, I guess it just feels like 16 years.
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