Fans demand meaningful change and progress

DC wrote:

Thanks for all of the suggestions, and yes, I do my best to listen to the fans, the industry, the riders, and even the off-the-wall stuff...

Thanks for all of the suggestions, and yes, I do my best to listen to the fans, the industry, the riders, and even the off-the-wall stuff.... Not sure where all of these fit in, but I appreciate someone spent so much time thinking about the same things I spent a lot of time thinking about, though often with different conclusions.

DC
MX Sports

MXinOC wrote:

American MX and SX must align with each other in order to further the growth and make our moto-sports the best they can be. For instance...

American MX and SX must align with each other in order to further the growth and make our moto-sports the best they can be. For instance, Major League Sports have 2 Divisions (i.e.; Football, Basketball and Baseball) that are two distinctive divisions with a Champion for each, then each division plays each other to create a world series champion. Both the SX and MX series should remain independent of each other but some options are;

1) Create a 3rd Race Series by shortening each individual series by as many as 6 races each, you now have a newly created 12 race Series (a combination of 6 Motocross races and 6 SX races that alternate each weekend) at the end of the year... the SuperMotocross Series or the MotocrossSuper Series. Thus, creating three distinctive series with the possibility of three different champions. Fans would be watching "moto" all year long. I believe this would be a marketable format that would result in more TV exposure, similar to golf in that they have the PGA Tour and the so called "silly season" season that creates alot of TV for golf.

2) or perhaps, alternating weekends for each of the motocross and supercross series. This would no doubt create some "conflicts of interest" but would keep all fans, and I think most racers would want to race both series but you would not have a 3rd Series that is an exciting combination of the two series. I personally prefer Option 1 above.


3) In any case, I also believe that ALL races should be "Incentive Driven" with racers earning their money by WINNING, not paid very well before they ever compete each year. Do it like Golf... forget the team concept. Thus, creating larger purses for each race instead of highly paid Team individuals. The fans then are excited to watch the individual racer vying for the $500,000 purse race and showing the breakdown of the purse indicating what 2nd, 3rd...etc., what each position will earn. MONEY creates EXCITEMENT! Huge salaries do not. Each individual racer can have "endorsements (sponsors)" but each Series (e.g.; The PGA or the FedEx Golf Series, or its equivalent being the Toyota Supercross Series, and the newly created Muscle Milk National Motocross Series) and each individual Race will have its own sub-sponsor (e.g.: FMF sponsors the first race of the Muscle Milk Series, or AT&T sponsored first race of the Toyota Supercross Series similar to the way golf does it. Also, individual stars such as Jeremy McGrath or Roger DeCoster might sponsor another any of the other races in the Toyota Series. Again, similar to the way Golf has done it with the Bob Hope Golf Tournament or the former Bing Crosby or Dinah Shore Tournaments. Example: JS has an endorsement from L&M and others, just as Tiger is endorsed by Nike and others, and this one race in this example is sponsored by AT&T. Like golf, sponsors are allowed to add 2 or 3 "exempt" amateurs or privateers to their sponsored event.

4) I also feel that it would be beneficial to our sport if the Premiere division (450's/superstars) and second division (250's/up and comers) were not at the same events. The 250's could follow up the weekend after the 450's. Golf has the PGA tour for the superstars and The Nationwide Tour is for the up and comers... totally seperate tournaments. This would create more TV events, thus more exposure and more fans. This also DOUBLES the amount of qualifiers and racers for each division (450's and 250's) at each race, thus more fans, more revenue, more income available to all racers, all OEM's,etc., etc. Now that more SX Stadiums as well as more Race Tracks for Nationals are vying for events at their venues, (i.e.; The Coliseum has taken Anaheim2) lets make Anaheim2 and the Coliseum the experiment. Anaheim 2 is for the up and coming 250's and the Coliseum is for the Superstar 450's. And add the WMA to Anaheim2 with the 250's.

5) If #4 above was in place, I feel it would increase the overall attendance of each event. Take Anaheim1 for instance, say Anaheim1 has a sell-out of 45,000 fans watching nothing but the 450's Premiere Class, then the following weekend would be the 250's 2nd tier class, I for one would attend both. I would guess that roughly half or better of the 45,000 would also attend the 250's race. Now the total combined attendance for Anaheim1 is approx. 65,000 fans.

6) If we want a more Professional image similar to other MAJOR League Sports such as the PGA, I feel we must distance our sports, MX and SX from the FMX "badass lifestyle and environment" that seems to mostly encourage and applaud unprofessionalism and destructive antics.

gt80rider wrote:

no WAY am i reading all that...... can you knock it down to 10 words or less? Thanks!

MXinOC wrote:

Anything that may help you my friend.

slowvet wrote:

Keep on keep'n on DC, you are appreciated.

DC wrote:

MXinOC, I wasn't making fun of you, it's the general "you suck" emails and thread I was referring to. By all means send me your ideas...

MXinOC,

I wasn't making fun of you, it's the general "you suck" emails and thread I was referring to. By all means send me your ideas, and yes, break them up here and there some.

I actually read all of Rupter X Pellett's Moto Manifesto and found some really interesting ideas among the general revolutionary ideals.

We're trying to be consistent and responsive to the fans as well as the riders and the teams, but sometimes its like juggling chainsaws and Molotovs....

DC@mxsports.com

MXinOC wrote:

I'm not sure what gave you the idea that I thought you were making fun of me, I never did think that, so no problem, thanks...

I'm not sure what gave you the idea that I thought you were making fun of me, I never did think that, so no problem, thanks for that though. I also read Ruperts manifesto... thought it was very well done with some good ideas. I was kind of bummed when I researched the Institute hoping to find a significant sized group, but it appears that Rupert is the Institute. And SWPK's, plllllllease, I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH RUPERT and posted that I applaud him for his time, efforts, on a job well done. Keep smilin' and doing the good work DC. Again, my thread never complained about any one person, any organization, any company. They are my thoughts and ideas as possible solutions, period! I am just puttin' my 2 cents in with nothing but the best interest in mind for REAL MX / SX as a whole. Thank you.