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Message: [QUOTE="ctchamps, post: 5268595, member: 37"] Absolutely true. If we like the product we attend, we contribute. If we’re dissatisfied we don’t. No different than going to a movie or a pizza joint. We’re customers. Unfortunately fans treat their teams differently. We feel the need to be part of the decision making process and have a right to know what is going on in the creation of the product. Go to the pizza thread. Someone expresses they like a place and why. Others might agree with or disagree with that person and state why. Very little heated debate. Go to the entertainment forum and you see similar conversations about a movie or tv series. Sports in general elicits similar conversations. But if someone is passionate about a team the degree of personal emotional entanglement goes up quite a lot. We can conjecture all we want. We can be optimistic and believe Alex and the coaches are intelligent and have a similar desire in the future of the program trying to work out a conciliatory arrangement even as they diverge in their needs. Or we can be negative and believe one or both sides are selfish, immature or spiteful and are sabotaging the program. But in the end we are not entitled to the process taking/taken place between Alex and the coaches. And without that information we have no idea how damaging this process has been. If Alex returns this “drama”, at the minimum, reduced the interval of time until our next game. Perhaps some of us will have suffered needlessly. If he doesn’t return than we will have to wait longer to determine our situation. Although I’m certain some of us have a crystal ball indicating how bad things will be. [/QUOTE]

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