Look at the Bruins and Celtics, two once-proud franchises that both finished last in their respective leagues and are now forced to live off past glories, because let's face it, achieving any new glories are beyond them. Bad drafts, personnel decisions, coaching, ownership, stadiums, maybe even bad uniforms can be blamed. After this goes on for awhile, there is literally no hope of redemption. Players get scared off, threatening to go to Europe rather than play for theses teams, or they take less money to go somewhere else. So the owner cleans house firing everyone and starts over.
Problem is the new coaches and GMs are usually people who just got fired somewhere else.
These retreads don't exactly build confidence. Why change the uniform, get rid of the symbol that's associated with losing. But a dodo in a new suit is still a dodo. Copyright 1997 by the Iowa State Daily Publications Board. All rights reserved.