In Reply to: By what process do we hold the Morgan Center accountable? posted by ClockBlocker on July 04, 2024 at 16:19:28
Great question.
I don't know the answer. The problem is Morgan Center is insulated and not directly subject to market forces. Your idea of boycotting them won't move them out. The Bruin media would just dump on apathetic fans and protect their benefactors inside the bureaucracy. The TV contracts, for now, would keep dumping money into their laps regardless of their performance.
Among your suggestions, the two that make the most sense are stopping WAF and increasing NIL. WAF goes to the bureaucrats, NIL goes to the players. We want better players, and we want fewer but more capable talents managing the program.
To wrest control of the program away from the government social welfare mentality means management of it must be outsourced to a talent management firm, say "Wasserman-Aikman" or something like that. Ucla outsources most everything, so why not the football team? (Answer: it's the cash cow keeping the bureaucrats in clover.)
We need better management and wholesale changes to get there. Jarmond is a government program administrator and glad-hander, not a competitive market executive. Ever notice how he and Morgan Center are always on the defensive, always responding to events never innovating, never pushing the team forward? They're content to just ride the program as is.
"As is" means that without a wholesale change we are firmly a tier-two program from now on. The financial gap between ourselves and the top tier is widening, we are falling further behind in every dimension: championships, fund raising, national visibility, relevance.
Our return to "Champions of New Years Day" isn't happening now or for a long time coming.
Thanks to John Wooden, Tommy Prothro, Dick Vermeil and Terry Donahue with an assist from Ben Howland, the Ucla brand is strong enough to withstand the mediocrity from football for a long time. Morgan Center knows this and is ok coasting along.
In the meantime, we can do our part by being better fans. Don't fall for the hype, hold Morgan Center accountable and give to NIL.