I will rip you all when needed but at least you all realize that she is not the right choice plus it gets us from under Vulcan and that cannot happen soon enough.
fans want Jody to sell the team. she doesn't. fans are unhappy. fans want Jody to sell the team. she sells the team. team moves to Las Vegas. Portland has no more team. fans are unhappy. fans want Jody to sell the team. she sells the team. team stays under new ownership. tickets/merch/food/drinks/parking all goes up due to needing to make the money back. fans are unhappy. Blazer fans are just unhappy with any outcome.
Do you think Jody is keeping ticket prices artificially low? If they raise prices they lower demand which would be fewer sales and potentially less total money. NBA teams don't avoid raising prices because they are friendly or nice, they do it because not raising prices can earn them more money. Raising prices to a point can harm total revenue. I'd love for them to try #3. The Blazers should do all they can to maximize revenue. If it was a different owner, I'd be very willing to pay a hell of a lot more. Think of it another way - I'm very hesitant to hand over cash to the current Blazers ownership. Never felt that way with Paul Allen.
which in turn drives up cost of everything. people will be unhappy because they wouldnt be able to afford tickets. then you'll have more snobby people in the 100 level that aren't really fans. a lot of the games ive been to courtside to 15 rows up are speckled with actual fans at best. and that's right now. personally, i think my couch is more comfortable anyway, so it wouldnt bother me if they raised all of that. but the people who love going to the games probably wont be able to if that happens.
sure, you would be happy now, but give it a few months. youll be out of the honeymoon phase and be unhappy with the team again.
Tickets have been going up the last couple years while the team has got worse. Sounds like your measuring stick is that you want the product to get better, inflation to not exist, and demand be ignored. I'll be thrilled if we get an ownership group that invests in the team and more importantly, runs it well; even if that means increased prices. I bet many would agree me with. It's not all doom and gloom.
Depends on how you define new. There are plenty of things I don't think the franchise has done well, but I don't buy your theory that every ownership outcome is bad.
I was happy with Paul as an owner since I was a fan of the team back to 1989. I'm a fan of the majority of NBA ownership groups. Why would I be unhappy with a new ownership group?
So you think NBA teams are leaving large amounts of money on the table when they could just raise prices? I seriously question your business acumen.
NBA teams have been raising prices on everything every year. Especially if they have a superstar or two. One year it could be, I dunno, $100 for a ticket. The next year, they acquire a big name and now that same exact ticket is $200. No big name and that ticket is now $115. Just keeps on rising. And they do it because they just want to. Not that they *need* to.
