<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">If this is the winter of Philadelphia sports fans' discontent, imagine being Ed Snider. Snider, 74, heads Comcast-Spectacor, which owns the Flyers and the 76ers. Both teams are enduring dramatic, unprecedented slumps this season. "I'm miserable," Snider said Friday in an interview from his home near Santa Barbara, Calif. He said the Sixers, a young team, will improve. And not with Larry Brown returning to the bench as coach, he said. "We have a coach," Snider said, referring to Maurice Cheeks. Asked about a solution for the Flyers, he seemed stumped. Snider said his mood rises and falls. "I mean, [Friday] I'm feeling pretty good because we've won three out of our last four games, the Sixers, and it's a young team, and it's going to get better and better, I think, but we'll have to wait and see."</div> Read more...
Everybody in ownership and the front office should be worrying about one thing, and thats the 2007 NBA draft. Obviously the 76ers are not going to be contenders this year; two very good players are going to be availible that could possibly turn this franchise around again. The 76ers cannot really afford to win, as rediculous as that sounds.
Both the Flyers and the Sixers are struggling mightly. It doesn't take a genius to figure out what the problem is......... Ed Snider