bcoach wrote: ↑Sun Feb 13, 2022 12:26 pm
AppStateNews wrote: ↑Sat Feb 12, 2022 9:19 pm
bcoach wrote: ↑Sat Feb 12, 2022 8:52 pm
AppStateNews wrote: ↑Sat Feb 12, 2022 8:42 pm
BambooRdApp wrote: ↑Sat Feb 12, 2022 8:37 pm
"Gillon agreed with this. But, he's hired folks to take this over and has let them handle it."
Maybe or maybe not the intention..if someone is saying it is out of DG:s hands, I disagree with that conclusion. People hire consultants and/or outsource ideas all the time. However, the CEO owns it and agrees and says go ahead or the CEO disagrees and elects to not take a different direction. Although painful, I fully support having increases. We have been paying matinee prices for a primetime show. With that said, DG owns it and he has final day at end of the day. I am glad he ultimately elected this course. This is why we hired him in this position....ie making the unpopular decision for the betterment of the overall program long-term.
It's not out of DG's hands. He just knows he's hired people that have more experience than him in this stuff. He agrees it should have been a slower transition, but also knows he pays people that know more than him in this realm so he's taking their suggestion(s) (mainly Ransdell).
Again, I don't think anybody is complaining about the increase. The complaints I have heard and have shared are about the suddenness of said increases.
I hope I am wrong as can be, but I fully expect a huge plummet in membership and season ticket holders in 2023.
He is the AD. There should not be people who know more about this than him.
And good leaders know enough to know they may not know enough. Gillin is putting the people he hired to do a job to do their job. That is what they are paid to do, he is going to trust their decisions.
Just because he is the AD doesn't mean others won't have more knowledge on growing a booster club.
I have to respectfully but very strongly disagree. He is not the CEO of a fortune 500 company. Income is his every day number one responsibility. He should be VERY heavily involved in the development of the booster club and ticket sales. If this goes poorly just who do you feel will be responsible.
Who said he's not heavily involved? Who said the blame goes to someone else?
Just because he disagrees with certain aspects of it doesn't mean he doesn't still sign off on it knowing that's what he's hired these folks to do.
You can read in to it how you want, but the bottom line is Gillin had the same thoughts most fans have -- "wow, that came suddenly. It's the right move, but doing it without any warning is a hindrance for many!" However, knowing he's hired people to do this exact thing and their suggestion was to start it now, he went along with it because that is their expertise!
Do you think Steve Jobs agreed to every marketing campaign Apple did? Probably not because technology was Mr. Jobs strong suit. He hired marketing folks to handle it, and signed off on it knowing they had more knowledge in that area.