Is MB Cheap really?

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(09-04-2019, 02:12 PM)t3r3e3 Wrote: When you field an uncompetitive product you feel market pressures from other regional products competing for dollars.  Field a competitive product and the patrons will support it, and fans from afar that will travel to take in a game and buy merchandise.  Mike manages the team and bare minimum expenditures.  It’s the reason the brand sucks compared to its counterparts, and the product is not a winning one over Mike’s tenure.  Eschewing the best/brightest front office personnel hires to employ your family generally does not result in a competitive large business.  Apologists can explain away the lack of success and value, but it all lies at the feet of Mike.

Regional business is a bad example.  In typical local/regional business competition, if I consistently produce a better product than my competition for similar or less cost and price my product less than my competition, I should outsell them considerably.  That's never been the case with the Bengals and Browns. The issue is that brand loyalty is huge in sports.  

Ohio State is a different animal because the produce tons of consumers with ingrained brand loyalty every year in the form of graduates.  Those graduates are a part of OSU in a way that they will never be a part of a pro team. I mean the Cooper era had a similar narrative to the Marvin era(couldn't beat Michigan or win bowl games vs couldn't beat Pittsburgh or win playoff games), but the stands were still full of fans decked out in new OSU gear.

Building a competitive product isn't proven to dramatically increase revenue in this case.  We've had playoff teams that don't sell out the stadium.  The customer base is essentially dug in until he wins a playoff game.