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The biggest problem we have as warrior fans is that we are too loyal. I do not think that warriors fans will boycot games.

As has been stated before, you can not seperate an owner from a money making entity. It is not going to happen and it would be ridiculous of Cohan to do it.
Now if you get enough people to boycott supporting this team until Cohan sells, meaning lowering attendance, hurting merchandise sales and not watching the games on tv or listening on radio, you may have a chance at getting this to go through.
Also, I wouldn’t recommend wasting the money on a billboard. It may work at hurting Cohan’s feelings, but I highly doubt it would prod him one way or the other to sell a money generating asset.

Look’s like Cohan reads this forum after all, who wooda thought…..

I can definitely respect what you are trying to do, Billie. i know a lot of people on here will keep giving you the “it will never happen” b.s., but don’t let that discourage you from trying to reach your ultimate goal.

will cohan sell? no one will ever know until the day he does. but it’s good to know that we really do have dedicated fans who will try to do anything in their power to help force that issue. keep doing your thing man. good luck with that.

I think the best we can do is NOT to buy any tickets. If attendance is down twenty- something percent so far then let’s make it keep going down. It took us knuckle-headed dedicated basketball fans a while to start speaking with our pocketbooks; but now we are all starting to do that. Once it is down 40% Cohan will have to begin to consider selling especially if he has tax issues. Also, I don’t get why more people don’t understand what a problem Nelson is. Management screwed up by siding with Nelson over Webber and it is the same stupid management that now screwed up by siding with Nelson again multiple times. I have to believe Nelson encouraged trading J Rich for B Wright for financial reasons which was the start of this decline. I have to believe Nelson encouraged jettisoning Baron because we know Mullin wanted to do the deal. WE know for a fact that Nelson chose to get rid of Harrington and SJAX and management again sided with him like the idiots they are. I am done with putting any money into this team until there is new management and a new coach. Ellis is the one bright spot and he’ll probably be gone soon if current management continues with their dumb decisions, And why the heck have we not used all of our expiring contracts to make a deal for someone with decent skill??? That is one improvement that could be made right away but just like before with the previous trade exception dollars there is nothing being done.

Well said Jae, you have to hit Cohan and Co. where it hurts; The Money. Stop going to games, stop purchasing merchandise, etc. Whatever it takes.

It’s very simple. 15 years of ownership under Cohan, 1 playoff appearance, 2 winning seasons. Not good enough.

I think you need a more concrete plan to get the ball rolling. As much as people talk about boycotting a game and sending a message, it’s all just speculation. A billboard is a good, and funny, idea, but it’s not the only way to get the word out.

Either way, it would take more than just boycotting a game. Using quasi-news media websites like Twitter and Facebook could be an effective way of reaching a lot of people. Reaching out to sports writers who could convey the message for us, at both the local level and national level (for example, if 100 people continued to write in to Bill Simmons asking him to help sponsor this idea, you think he wouldn’t be willing to help out?). Hell, even reaching out to the players themselves. Suffice it to say, at least a few of the players and their agents aren’t too happy with the front office right now either. I would think they would be hesitant to advocate for anything that would hurt the team in the immediate future for obvious reasons (might be contract issues, fines from the NBA, the fact that they’re being paid by Cohan), but it would be worth it to see if any of them would be willing to jump on and help a little with the advertising.

As far as concreteness of the plan, it would be much easier to rally people around a tangible idea. As long as it’s mere speculation, it will be met with a higher degree of skepticism. If you target an actual game and come up with a tangible plan though, it becomes much more accessible to fans and you can make an effort to get a realistic measure of how much support you would be able to get. It would have to be a date against a team that wouldn’t draw a significant amount of fans for the other team either (i.e. Lakers, or the Lebron’s) or if it were, you would have to strive to get their fans to participate as well via reaching out to their fanbase. I’m guessing it wouldn’t be too difficult to get them to support us as fellow fans. But until you choose a date, it’s all just speculation and it’s easier to criticize from afar. If you set out a concrete plan, then people can talk all they want, but they’ll either cooperate or they won’t.

I would also add that it is important that the message is clearly delivered to Cohan and publicized so that Cohan and the rest of the league knows exactly what the fans are upset about, what they want, and what their course of action will be. This will also help combat, to an extent, the chances of a “sonicsgate” happening, since buyers in the Bay will understand that the fans have not given up on the team, just on Cohan for being a worthless piece of shit for an owner.

I like the idea, but it’s still so undeveloped, it’s hard to really believe that anything will really come from it.