Comments on: Hitch’s Chopping Block Gets Bloodied

By: ...

... — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:23:37 +0000

Why dont you take care of your lives?? Just leave it

By: 3rd Degree » Archive » FC Dallas Grabs New Marketing Head from Dallas Morning News

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:16:25 +0000

[...] part of the restructuring in the front office that includes the Weller hire, as well as the three firings 3rd Degree reported last week, current General Manager Micheal Hitchcock will be refocusing on improving ticket sales, the [...]

By: TheGreatTrollKing

TheGreatTrollKing — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:56:11 +0000

Looks like the positions were eliminated, based on the FC Dallas website. Makes sense, if SH is taking over many of the responsibilities that Hitch previously had (like player decisions and contract negotiation). Hope the guys who got canned land on their feet quickly. Good luck to y’all.

By: Harry C.

Harry C. — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:54:27 +0000

BurnFan – keep your 2 cents and you are quite ignorant if you think they haven’t been doing anything. I’m sure they don’t ad budgets or staff that the other teams do. Plus Americans find soccer as a polarizing word/sport.

Sure it’s not in the main stream media but the media know about it and only give it a small amount of exposure because it’s all about ratings and if you tune in and see a lot of soccer you changes channels. It’s that simple.

As for the advertising/marketing guy…isn’t that really Hitch behind a current anyway…regardless of who the puppet was?

By: Dallas Burn Fan

Dallas Burn Fan — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:07:08 +0000

as for the vp of marketing and communications, bush for sure needed to go. but also the pr manager as well. marketing and pr goes hand in hand and word cannot get out unless you have good marketing and pr. sad but it is true especially when this team has been here for all these years! other clubs and new ones have a lot better team branding and marketing / pr. besides bush there should be the pr manager and get a team in there to market this team and get ticket sales up and the team up as well to compete against the other major sports. just my 2 cents

By: Toffee

Toffee — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:27:32 +0000

Time to bring in some new underpaid talent.

There’s a guy working at the corner of Central and Mockingbird that’s seems pretty good at getting donations. He works for cheap too. The $8 beers you guys peddle at PHP, will probably help him to slow his drinking as well. So this could be a “win, win.”

By: FC Dallas in Florida

FC Dallas in Florida — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:20:21 +0000

I’m referring to attendance numbers mainly when I say “success”. The on field play is a different kind of success… definitely obtainable.

By: FC Dallas in Florida

FC Dallas in Florida — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:16:17 +0000

The marketing has always been poor… look around DFW and you don’t see FCD anywhere… but then again that requires a tremendous budget so the VP may have been limited by his budget but I think in any marketing type business… eventually you have to get fresh blood in despite who the GM is… that is just part of the ever changing ad business.

Success will always be limited for FCD because of where the stadium is located, no roof in the Texas sun, etc., etc. We all know the reasons.

By: uh?

uh? — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:37:21 +0000

Chris Clarke is not the only old school. Bobby Hammond has more tenure there than anyone else and has been there since the first year.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:45:28 +0000

I wish those three good luck. Especially Jeff as he is one of the “good shits”.