Since my post did not pertain directly to the MTSU email thread, I'll move my post here.
If anyone deserves CUSA, its probably them. Having read the article it wasnt about fans emailing CUSA. Here's a slightly off topic observation that that I'd like to share, again not about the MTSU article specifically:
When something goes not quite the way we'd like, there's always a group ready to send out a barrage of emails, or set up large-scale web petitions to make change happen. But does this EVER work? I don't think it does. I think it's an inability to think outside the box.
In most cases there's not a lot that can be done anyway, but the usual, we're gonna show our disgust and email the AD to get the coach fired!, is always Plan A, and Plan A usually always sucks because its primitive and not well thought out. ADs and coaches don't look at this and say
you know, they're right, this needs to be done as if they weren't aware of the problem to begin with.
Another observation. I don't work in sales, but in almost every aspect of your job or your life, you're selling something. If you're a doctor, you have to sell people on your product, which is you. One of the first things I learned about selling in school is it's 10x harder for someone to turn you down in person. Whether you're making a sale, or asking a girl out on a date, or trying to influence a coach or an AD.
In these cases, even being there in person may not have an affect, but emailing and signing petitions is a far worse plan. These guys have their own agendas and don't care about the opinions of someone who can't see things from the inside. It'd be like running a big time clothing store in new york, and some guy off the street tries to tell you how to run the store, when you know good and well that won't work because they don't see all the things you see on a daily basis in the store.
That was a little off topic, but I enjoy human psychology and I'd like to see some numbers or instances where email petitions actually worked. Please don't cite some feel-good, G-rated, late-80's early-90's movie, where a petition was signed and the good guys won. Not real life
hahaha.
What are your thoughts on this? Again, it just seems kind of primitive in the problem solving chain.