I am hoping Morgan announces an outside-the-box, aggressive, visionary plan to get people into the stadium next year, at the same press conference where he gives us the great news about Hazell sticking around. Obviously someone besides Morgan will have to come up with this plan.
Here are some ideas to start with:
-let fans bring their own food and beverages into the stadium, like IMS does.
- borrow the lights from the Morgan J. Burke III baseball stadium, and have more night games.
- have a world class chess exhibition behind the north end zone, while the game is going on. This may attract our Russian students. You're probably thinking, "won't it be too loud for chess?" No, it won't.
-Offer an "all you can eat" Ticket for $20. This may attract the local Lafayette "Walmart/Golden Corral" crowd.
Doesn't care. He's most likely banking on TV money doing what it either has done or will do in all professional sports.. make actual paid attendance relatively meaningless.
That way he can manage as though you don't have a voice. Because really, do you? Spectator events and the analysis of such on all levels of city are now monetized and even discussed by third parties (sports radio) in a way that minimizes the voice and access of the average man down to almost nothing.
They will manage things how they feel like it, they'll get rich doing it.. and they already figure that if you were going to leave, you would have left by now.
I once was with a group of guys from my frat who came from the richest families. Their families were all worth probably 8 figures. I thought they were nice enough so I went to Windsor Canada with them. During dinner, one of them started in with, "middle class and working people are worthless." I expected the others to be like, "really man." But I sat there as they all joined in and mocked everyday people.
What I've learned since then is that this is how they talk when they're alone. And... how do you think Morgan and those with the influence talk about you?
I imagine it goes something like this...
"Another Johnny Blue Scotty. Yeah, so anyway, like I was just telling a few trustees, these nobody fans can show up or not show up for all I care. With this Big Ten money the salaries are only going to increase for everyone at this table. And when, you know, freaking Gary from Lafayette doesn't show up anymore and cries about me being fired, I'll sit back in my mansion and have myself a cry over it. Because not only will I still get paid, I'll get paid even more... and he'll still have to live his life."
Privately, those are probably his sentiments. Now, I'll wait for some unbiased observer ERRRR someone sitting at a computer in Burke's office to become objectively offended about that.
