Welcome to (failed) TED Talk - TED is dead.

[TheLegend]

Waiting on XG to make a statement.

 

[Dead Coyote]

Somehow I still have hopium on this. There must have been the expectation that this would happen right?

 

[mouser]

End result is going to be a park or affordable housing. Lol...just kidding, it's going to be business buildings like the rest of Tempe town lake and some distant backers of Tempe 1st will make a killing. Smooth brained Tempe voters will still think they totally beat out the billionaires. Lol...stupid motherf***ers!

Will be interesting to see what Tempe eventually does with the land. The fundamental problem remains cleanup costs are twice the value of the land after cleanup.

I‘m not confident Tempe could give the land away for free. And even if they tried to do that there’d probably be a referendum objecting to ”giving land away for free”.

 

[Imaravencawcaw]

Maybe Ishbia is a savior. He saw what the Ilitch’s built….

That would just be another band-aid. This team will never be profitable as a tenet in another team's building.

 

[Arizonatah Coyetis]

I suddenly give 0 f***s who this team drafts now.

 

[ParisSaintGermain]

Another terrible chapter in a book full of them.
I can picture the ownership team drafting frenetically one of those awful, bitter, raging press releases/statements that we have been accustomed to.

 

[RABBIT]

I’m almost relieved it’s over.

 

[Sinurgy]

Getting money for commercial real estate is hard right now. I think it's more likely the land stays undeveloped.

I don't know. There's an office space glut and someone still needs to foot the cleanup cost.

Well I mean yeah, nothing is certainly an option too, the point is this thing remains a landfill or ends up something way less redeeming than TED. Tempe voters blew off their nose to spite their face. Like I said, a bunch of dumb motherf***ers!

 

[RABBIT]

I suddenly give 0 f***s who this team drafts now.

Same. I’ll watch but I kinda don’t give a shit anymore

 

[Arizonatah Coyetis]

That would just be another band-aid. This team will never be profitable as a tenet in another team's building.

Yep. This team needs an external revenue source to survive. The ED was it.

 

[BigJCaRoach]

I don’t want this to be the end.

 

[SniperHF]

I think most of us are numb at this point.

Pretty much here. I've barely followed this thing. Didn't even realize it was an 8PM dump I just happened to be online moderating some stuff.

'member the days of city council hearings in Glendale? There was at least a groundswell of support. People seemed to care. However many people rallied back in 2009-2013, that isn't here today. The fanbase is beaten down over 14 years of limbo. Covid made fewer people deeply invested in sports than ever.


To say nothing of the obviously poor effort and plan to actually win a half baked......off cycle non-november vote.

 

[RABBIT]

We’re done. No mention of plan b

 

[lanky]

Somehow I still have hopium on this. There must have been the expectation that this would happen right?

Right.
Plan B is AZ.
I understand why the sentiment is so low here right now, but I don't think it's warranted.

 

[Sinurgy]

Another terrible chapter in a book full of them.
I can picture the ownership team drafting frenetically one of those awful, bitter, raging press releases/statements that we have been accustomed to.

God those are so cringe and really bring that ghetto new money energy.

 

[Dead Coyote]

We’re done. No mention of plan b

Welp, guess the sky really is falling.

 

[LuckyNumber11]

Yeah XG sounds like there is no plan B

 

[Llewzaher]

I really hope Javier comes out with plan B.
if he doesn’t touch on that , then I think they never had a plan B

XG is going to say they are disappointed , but have another option that they will be announcing in the next 2 weeks

edit oh just read Craig’s twitter

 

[SniperHF]

No mention of plan b

Plan B lol. Maybe the hockey team equivalent of an abortifacient.

 

[Jakey53]

Their spend was still paltry in the grand scheme. Less than a Zach Kassian buyout. And they still outspent the Yotes. At least on digital.

There is no excuse for the Coyotes. I have said at every step that everything they’re doing is all wrong. They were late, they were cheap, and they were incompetent. No excuse. Their strategy was an obvious loser. Their execution was poor. They didn’t do one thing right.

If you wanted to lose on purpose but make it seem like you weren’t trying to lose, this is what that would look like. The least amount of money and least amount of effort to at least pass a cursory inspection for an attempted campaign. This was a shell job. A shell campaign. For what I suspect is a shell owner.

There is no other explanation. They either wanted to lose or they’re incredibly inept. Those are your only options. Pick whichever one you want.

I don't think it would have mattered. This was a landslide loss. I'm really at a lose for words. I really don't know what to think. Mind you it's Arizona. Full of dumb politicians and dumb people.

 

[Dead Coyote]

12/27k is pretty good, honestly. At least there was some support.

 

[RABBIT]

Welp we’ve got insiders already hinting at Houston so I’m just gonna say it now: I may not go out of this forum peacefully lol. Sorry mods! You seem like great people but this site is f***ing riddled with shit bags

 

[TheLegend]

 

[Canis Latrans]

Lame, I was getting used to not worrying about the business-side massively affecting the ability to even field a team. It was nice only being concerned with the management of the hockey side of things like a fan in basically every other market.

 

[Arizonatah Coyetis]

Yep. No plan B.