I spend way too much of my current life thinking about what I can do to “fix” the New Orleans Specters, so I may as well just put those thoughts on paper. Now, for those not “in the know”, you may be asking yourself: “Why do you even want to fix the Specters?”. It’s true, in my 10 seasons running New Orleans, since it’s inception, we’ve made the playoffs every season. We’ve been to three Challenge Cup Finals, winning one cup, and losing in 7 games twice. That’s pretty damn good. So what is there to fix? Well, first off, I’ve spent much too much time trading first round picks for “current” good players. Trades similar to Olivier Cloutier ( @Jenny ) for two firsts gives us one hell of a player in their prime (and a great LR person), but it doesn’t “stock the cupboard”. It also gives us this “stale” feeling. The players I’ve been blessed with in my tenure are SHL STUDS. People like @slothfacekilla , @FuzzSHL , @TheDangaZone , @Nictox , @BadWolf , @Blastmeaway, and so many others have been around since day one. We had a blast in our little family atmosphere as we came oh-so-close to winning the cup many times. Honestly, we should have another cup or two. All of a sudden, trading those higher picks or prospects for high TPE players kind of kept the same people around for a long time. There wasn’t much “fresh” blood that came aboard and kept things new. Add into the fact that my real life got much more difficult, and I wasn’t around NEARLY as much as I should’ve been and before you knew it, most of my super awesome friends started to go other places. Those people can never be replaced, but because we also didn’t have new faces to even attempt to take those places, things died off a little bit. So the “fix” is getting my activity up and making sure the three first round picks we have this next draft start to warm this place up a bit more. Its not bad by any means, but it isn’t perfect. (356)