[Fox 26] Tad Brown Named New Executive Officer for Houston Rockets

Soooo is this a good or bad thing??

 

Given the lousy showings at home, I'd guess any change in Rockets exec is a good thing.

 

But I would guess that "the senior vice-president in charge of sales, marketing and broadcasting" should have somehow shared some responsibility and blame for that lousy showings at home, which might have contributed to the unique road-better-than-home record last year. Maybe it isn't such a piece of exciting news to have that guy as your new CEO.

 

LOL ... you are right. I didn't read the damn thing. But what an irony on this shakeup.

Actually the uniqueness of road-better-than-home is not limited to just last year, it goes back to at least 4 years, as the available attendance records show. Moreover, the magnitude of this uniqueness is astounding.

I did some spreadsheet work on the subject last weekend and posted my finding in another thread, which got buried. Since it's relevant, I am digging it up and reposting it here:

2002-03 Season:

Code:

TEAM 	HR_Diff	H_Rk	R_Rk	O_Rk	H	H%	R	R%	O	H%_Rk	R%_Rk
[color=red][b]HOU	22	27	5	24	13,784	84.6	17,919	93.2	15,851	21	5[/b][/color]
ORL	19	26	7	21	14,778	85.7	17,305	89.2	16,041	19	8
NJ	13	23	10	19	15,184	75.7	16,956	87.7	16,070	26	10
SAC	8	12	4	11	17,317	100	17,924	93.5	17,620	2	4
LAL	7	9	2	3	18,972	98.4	19,107	100.1	19,040	3	1
MIN	6	18	12	18	15,699	82.6	16,657	87.2	16,178	22	11
ATL	6	28	22	28	12,894	66.3	16,294	84	14,594	28	26
BOS	5	13	8	12	17,293	92.9	17,263	89.3	17,278	11	7
DEN	5	25	20	27	14,824	77.6	16,299	85.4	15,562	25	20
IND	4	15	11	15	16,352	89.1	16,856	86.6	16,604	17	13
NOK	3	19	16	20	15,650	91	16,481	84.8	16,066	13	22
CLE	2	29	27	29	11,496	55.9	16,087	83.4	13,792	29	28
WAS	1	2	1	1	20,173	97.6	19,311	100	19,742	4	2
PHI	1	4	3	2	19,685	96.3	18,408	95	19,046	7	3
MEM	1	24	23	25	14,910	74	16,277	85.5	15,593	27	19
GSW	0	21	21	23	15,486	79	16,297	85.5	15,891	23	18
NY	-1	8	9	6	19,011	96.2	17,104	88.6	18,058	9	9
MIL	-1	17	18	17	16,243	86.8	16,327	84.1	16,285	18	25
DAL	-3	3	6	4	19,912	103.7	17,618	92.3	18,765	1	6
SAS	-3	11	14	13	17,950	97	16,559	86.6	17,255	6	14
PHO	-3	16	19	16	16,257	85.5	16,318	85.5	16,288	20	17
TOR	-5	10	15	10	18,963	95.8	16,509	85.5	17,736	10	16
UTA	-6	7	13	9	19,171	96.3	16,585	87	17,878	8	12
SEA	-6	20	26	22	15,541	91	16,243	84.6	15,892	14	24
MIA	-7	22	29	26	15,322	78.2	15,844	82.1	15,583	24	29
LAC	-10	14	24	14	17,231	90.8	16,276	85.2	16,753	15	21
POR	-11	6	17	8	19,420	97.2	16,458	86.4	17,939	5	15
CHI	-20	5	25	7	19,617	90.4	16,268	84.6	17,943	16	23
DET	-27	1	28	5	20,470	92.7	16,053	83.6	18,261	12	27

2003-04 Season:

Code:

TEAM 	HR_Diff	H_Rk	R_Rk	O_Rk	H	H%	R	R%	O	H%_Rk	R%_Rk
[color=red][b]HOU	18	22	4	15	15,565	85.1	17,768	91.9	16,680	19	4[/b][/color]
NJ	16	26	10	21	14,952	74.6	17,379	89.1	16,150	27	11
ORL	13	27	14	27	14,359	83.3	16,791	85.5	15,590	21	19
NOK	10	28	18	28	14,332	83.3	16,669	84.8	15,486	22	21
MIN	8	11	3	9	17,635	95.5	17,825	92.4	17,729	7	3
SAC	8	13	5	11	17,317	100	17,762	91.6	17,537	2	5
IND	8	15	7	14	16,556	89.5	17,710	90.4	17,140	13	7
SEA	8	23	15	23	15,255	92	16,779	88.6	16,008	11	13
MEM	8	25	17	24	15,084	71.8	16,695	86.9	15,899	28	15
CLE	7	9	2	4	18,287	89.2	18,730	96.1	18,506	14	2
LAL	6	7	1	1	18,969	99.5	19,349	100.4	19,157	3	1
BOS	5	18	13	16	16,202	82.7	16,955	87	16,583	23	14
ATL	5	29	24	29	13,798	69	16,286	83.6	15,026	29	26
MIA	4	24	20	25	15,207	77.6	16,524	84.6	15,874	26	24
DEN	0	12	12	13	17,596	92.1	17,144	88.8	17,373	10	12
SAS	-1	10	11	10	18,022	97.4	17,347	89.8	17,680	4	10
PHI	-2	4	6	5	19,222	91.5	17,745	90.8	18,493	12	6
NY	-2	6	8	6	19,082	96.6	17,589	90.1	18,317	5	9
PHO	-6	17	23	18	16,350	86	16,375	85	16,363	18	20
DAL	-7	2	9	3	20,136	104.9	17,434	90.3	18,802	1	8
LAC	-7	19	26	20	16,150	86.9	16,258	86.1	16,205	16	17
WAS	-7	21	28	26	15,703	78.5	16,008	81.9	15,857	25	29
GSW	-9	20	29	22	16,145	84.1	15,885	82.3	16,013	20	28
POR	-11	14	25	17	16,585	80.6	16,282	84.7	16,432	24	23
MIL	-11	16	27	19	16,431	87.8	16,165	82.5	16,296	15	27
TOR	-13	8	21	12	18,307	92.5	16,491	84.1	17,410	9	25
UTA	-14	5	19	8	19,135	93.8	16,537	86	17,820	8	18
DET	-15	1	16	2	21,290	96.4	16,717	86.1	19,003	6	16
CHI	-19	3	22	7	19,736	86.3	16,445	84.8	18,131	17	22

2004-05 Season:

Code:

TEAM 	HR_Diff	H_Rk	R_Rk	O_Rk	H	H%	R	R%	O	H%_Rk	R%_Rk
[color=red][b]HOU	19	23	4	15	16,181	88.4	18,183	94.4	17,182	17	3[/b][/color]
ORL	16	27	11	26	14,583	84.6	17,510	88.2	16,047	23	15
MIN	9	15	6	13	17,181	93	17,874	92.7	17,527	11	5
BOS	8	24	16	23	16,001	81.6	17,216	86.9	16,609	26	19
LAL	5	7	2	3	18,792	98.6	18,810	97.5	18,801	7	1
PHI	5	10	5	8	17,870	85.1	17,933	91.8	17,902	22	6
SAC	5	13	8	14	17,317	100	17,702	91.6	17,509	4	7
ATL	5	28	23	28	14,456	72.3	16,730	84.9	15,593	29	29
CHA	5	29	24	29	14,431	61.9	16,717	85.8	15,574	30	26
SEA	4	21	17	20	16,475	96.9	17,029	87.9	16,752	8	17
MIL	4	25	21	25	15,536	83	16,806	85.1	16,171	24	27
NOK	4	30	26	30	14,221	82.7	16,690	86.4	15,456	25	22
MIA	3	4	1	2	19,881	101.4	18,891	95.9	19,386	2	2
CLE	3	6	3	5	19,128	93.3	18,275	92.9	18,701	9	4
PHO	2	11	9	11	17,708	93.1	17,570	91.5	17,639	10	8
DEN	0	12	12	12	17,657	92.5	17,506	91.1	17,582	12	10
IND	-2	17	19	17	16,994	91.9	16,895	85.9	16,944	14	25
GSW	-3	22	25	24	16,350	85.2	16,708	87	16,529	21	18
NJ	-3	26	29	27	15,089	75.3	16,624	84.7	15,857	28	30
SAS	-4	9	13	9	18,316	99	17,419	90.4	17,868	5	11
LAC	-4	18	22	19	16,980	89.1	16,735	86.8	16,857	16	21
NY	-5	5	10	7	19,515	98.7	17,540	88.9	18,528	6	13
DET	-6	1	7	1	22,076	100	17,868	91.2	19,972	3	9
WAS	-6	14	20	16	17,196	86	16,862	86.1	17,029	20	23
POR	-8	20	28	22	16,594	80.6	16,658	86.9	16,626	27	20
UTA	-10	8	18	10	18,756	91.9	16,923	88	17,839	13	16
TOR	-11	16	27	18	17,155	86.6	16,677	85	16,916	19	28
MEM	-11	19	30	21	16,862	91.6	16,621	86.1	16,742	15	24
CHI	-12	2	14	4	20,204	88.3	17,334	88.5	18,769	18	14
DAL	-12	3	15	6	20,061	104.5	17,259	89.9	18,660	1	12

2005-06 Season:

Code:

TEAM 	HR_Diff	H_Rk	R_Rk	O_Rk	H	H%	R	R%	O	H%_Rk	R%_Rk
PHI	16	21	5	11	16,518	78.7	18,627	103.3	17,572	27	4
[i][color=red][b]HOU	14	28	14	26	15,514	84.8	17,537	98.6	16,513	25	9[/b][/color][/i]
IND	13	24	11	20	16,179	87.5	17,624	96.6	16,902	19	14
BOS	11	18	7	14	16,890	86.2	17,919	96	17,404	20	17
NJ	11	19	8	16	16,866	84.1	17,710	97.2	17,288	26	10
POR	10	30	20	29	15,053	73.1	17,144	96.5	16,099	29	16
MIN	9	25	16	25	15,808	85.6	17,305	94.7	16,547	24	22
MEM	8	26	18	27	15,793	85.8	17,211	96.6	16,502	22	15
LAL	5	7	2	6	18,882	99.1	18,812	102.7	18,847	7	5
DEN	5	15	10	15	17,135	89.7	17,642	96.6	17,388	17	13
SEA	4	23	19	24	16,198	95.3	17,195	96	16,697	9	18
MIA	3	4	1	2	19,954	101.8	18,988	104.6	19,471	3	1
PHO	3	12	9	9	17,809	93.6	17,694	99.1	17,751	12	7
ORL	3	27	24	28	15,561	90.2	17,084	93.8	16,322	15	23
CLE	2	5	3	4	19,326	94.3	18,798	103.8	19,062	11	2
SAS	2	8	6	7	18,797	101.6	18,331	102.5	18,567	4	6
ATL	1	29	28	30	15,068	75.3	16,723	92.6	15,896	28	25
CHA	0	22	22	23	16,366	0	17,117	89.7	16,741	30	29
WAS	-1	16	17	18	17,122	85.6	17,291	95.3	17,208	23	21
MIL	-1	20	21	21	16,617	88.8	17,119	91.7	16,868	18	27
DET	-3	1	4	1	22,076	100	18,637	103.4	20,335	5	3
NY	-7	6	13	8	18,931	95.8	17,563	97.2	18,247	8	11
DAL	-9	3	12	5	20,121	104.8	17,591	98.7	18,856	2	8
SAC	-9	14	23	17	17,317	100	17,101	95.7	17,209	6	20
CHI	-13	2	15	3	21,188	92.6	17,404	96.7	19,296	13	12
LAC	-13	13	26	19	17,375	91.2	16,944	93	17,160	14	24
TOR	-13	17	30	22	17,054	86.1	16,595	91.6	16,825	21	28
UTA	-16	9	25	10	18,332	89.9	17,048	95.9	17,690	16	19
GSW	-17	10	27	12	18,273	95.2	16,775	91.8	17,514	10	26
NOK	-18	11	29	13	18,168	1443.6	16,659	88.8	17,414	1	30

H = home game attendance number
H% = percentage of home game crowd capacity
R = road game attendance number
R% = percentage of road game crowd capacity
O = overall attendace number for both home and road
H_Rk = rankings of H
H%_Rk = rankings of H%
R_Rk = rankings of R
R%_Rk = rankings of R%
O_Rk = rankings of O
HR_Diff = difference between H_Rk and R_Rk

Teams are purposedly ordered by the HR_Diff. Prior to this whole exercise I knew that the Rockets generally are an excellent road team, at least for the last couple of seasons, but I had no idea there is such a huge gap between home and road crowd numbers for the Rockets.

Despite the lousy showings by the home crowd, the Rockets consistently ranked 5th or better when it comes to drawing largest audiences on the road. The improvement on home attendance was steady, but very moderate, for three consecutives years from '02-'05 when Yao was basically injury-free.

Even in the injury-plagued '05-'06 season in which Yao and TMac missed lots of games, the Rockets still managed to draw a respectable 14th place in the road game crowd ranking.

In short, the Rockets are one of the most watched road teams and the one of least watched home teams at the same time. Houston doesn't appear to be a sweet home the Rockets.

Inexplicable.

 

I'll try to remember this correctly. The old guys who ran this included Postolos (who was possibly friends with one of the original insiders here Popeye-RIP), and others. I also was friends with Postolos neighbor/babysitter...that's kinda cool. Anyhow, this Tad guy is hooked up with Les' daughter or something or maybe sister from what i recall. Supposedly Les letting this new guy come in and slowly clean house coincided with the Rockets PR department and sales department going way downhill. Supposedly they treat their employees like crap too. I know a bunch of Rockets employees post here as fake fans, so I don't want to step on their toes too much...by what the hell. To all you Rockets employees: stop posting only when it's part of your job you fake buffoons. Be real fans for once.

Um, yeah, so I guess that's what I know. Maybe Tad knows what's up now that he's been in the biz for a while.

 

speaking of marketing, damn they are really trying HARD to get fans this year. Did anybody notice the advertising supplment that was in the Sunday paper last week? It looked like a "Season Preview" by the chronicle, but clearly stated on top of the 6 page section "Advertising Supplment". It was just a bunch of articles that u can read on Rockets.com. Then get this, I am a season tix holder this year and got one call asking me, "How many games are you planning to attend this season", I responded "like 30", "well we do have a half season plan in which would be GREAT for you", and I was like "im a season tix holder". They were embarressed and apologized. The next day, I get a call for the Guys Night Out game for the Memphis game in Nov? and told them that I have season tix and he felt embarressed too. I told both no worries and just wanted to get more asses into that building.

 

SPLASH!!!

 

they keep mailing me ****,

which i dont mind though, cause it's neat stuff.


like that tmac thing with my last name on it.

clever.


i now hang it up above my desk, next to pictures of my lovely ladies, and Angelina Jolie.

 

If I remember correctly,Tim, our fellow clutchfans poster and former Rockets marketing director did not have nice things to say about Tad Brown before he left. I imagine he is having tons of fun selling out the building at OKC though. Probably the easiest job in the NBA right now.

 

Tim is not a part of OKC/NO Hornets anymore. He quit before the beginning of the season last year, and from the sounds of it, he was the scapgoat.

 

Tad is a pretty good guy from what I can tell. I really like their new marketing director. He used to be one of the head marketing guys at Pizza Hut.

 

I don't about how good of a boss Tad is, but he definitely is doing a better job at marketing the rocks. The website is better, the mailers are better, and the ads are better. Tad definitely got Les to open up the purse strings to do these things.

 

610am MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT regarding Rockets Business Operations

Just heard in the 'sports flash' there will be an announcement soon.
Will post more info when available.

 

JVG getting waived

 

Maybe they will announce Carol Dawson will be retiring as a GM>

 

"Rockets Business Info" as in "the front office needs to sell more season tickets or we'll have to raise the price of nachos for which you already had to stand in line for 30 minutes anyway to receive and you always ran out of chili too soon", or "Rockets Business Info" as in "JHo and Player to Be Named Later Got Traded We're Going to Win a Championship for Sure Now" sort of thing?

 

Tad Brown.

 

Somehow "major announcement" and "business operations" don't really go together for me.

 

The Tad Brown news is a day or two old, no?

ROXTXIA,
Maybe they are going to release the conclusion of their business student intern's term paper that explains Supply/Demand pricing whereby when Demand is low, you raise prices to make up for less sales, and when Demand is high, you raise prices to capitalize on fan fervor.