I think he miss spoke. What he meant to say is FRISCO is too small a city for some many professional teams.

I would point out that two teams make money in MLS. LA and Dallas.

So Dallas is in theory fine on the budget…

of course everyone would like more fans in the stands.

If FC Dallas cared about fans in seats more than they cared about sponsorship dollars, they would not have built the stadium out in Frisco. And yes, I am well aware that Frisco is not “halfway to Oklahoma” – my parents live there – but it is still on a remote end of the metroplex, where DART does not reach, so it’s a hard sell to the City fans that followed them in the Cotton Bowl.

I apologize to anyone I may have offended in my previous post. My remarks were fueled by reading that statement after what I and several of my friends went through on the playoff game road trip to Houston. While I still very much disagree with the decision to build the stadium in Frisco, I appreciate other fan friendly things this team has done, such as providing the busses to Houston this weekend.

Ruiz seems spot on, we can’t sell out a playoff game. FCD makes money on use of PHP but not on soccer. That needs to change, Toronto & Houston are miles ahead of us in soccer fans.

there arent any rabid fans in Dallas. the Mavs have to pipe in noise and beg fans to get excited for all games. Cowboys fans dont show up until the 2nd quarter, sip beers, and applaud the visiting fans for being passionate. Stars fans have forgotten about hockey all over the country. and even the owner doesnt go to Rangers games anymore.

I think Carlos’ comments were surprisingly accurate. We have a lot of teams that have success in the metroplex and naturally everybody likes following a winner… so fan support in the area goes in cycles. Perform well on the field and fans will show up and care more, but if you don’t do well fans will pay more attention to the team-du-jour. Early 90s it was the Cowboys, late 90s it was the Rangers and Stars, Cuban-era Mavericks and now the Cowboys again. Heck even the Sidekicks were drawing 8-10K during their heyday in the late 80s and early 90s. If the Hoops have a couple year run of attractive play and real results the passion and atmosphere will improve. Of course a downtown stadium would help too.

Back in the greatness of the Cotton Bowl, the Inferno used to swear at the opposition. Now even they’ve gone soft and suburban.

Then again, maybe it was just me who used to swear…

I’m just wondering when Houston got so much bigger than D/FW.

Anyway, I will say that D/FW has as many soccer fans, if not more, than Houston does, but the FCD front office does an inferior job of drawing them to PHP. And blaming the location of the stadium is such a cop-out. Do you think that the TFC or Houston front offices would’ve only gotten 12,500 at PHP for a playoff game under the same circumstance?

Neither do I.

Poor attendance at the playoff match has as much to do with the team tanking at the end of the season as with anything else.
Winning 1 of 8 at the end doesn’t inspire me very much either.

Put a decent product on the pitch and people will start to notice. It seem like every year we have this same late season swoon.

That being said, let’s see what a full season with the Tollway open does for attendance.

Also all of the continued development around the Stadium will only help.

Let’s see what a season w/out Clay Akien (4th of July) entertainment does. Sorry folks but that pissed me off. That and trying to sell me a ticket to see Becks.

If you want to cater to tweens and soccer moms fine, if you want to cater to people who know this sport and have been playing/watching their whole life; then cut the crap. The ticket office and mangement pissed me off the seaso. Thus, I refused to attend a game. Now, I followed the team on tv and the nets ( I know they still make advertising dollars), but I’ll be damed if I wanted to sit next to a bunch of 12 year-old girls and their moms talking about how cute ol’ Golden Balls is.

Sell me a good product on the pitch, period.

“Sell me a good product on the pitch, period.”

The vicious circle of first-round losses after a strong season haven’t helped boost ticket sales. The Hoops also need consistent scoring to help fill those seats.