TNA 2008: Make Or Break Year?

I would honestly say if any year decided the fate of TNA, it's this year. I think they need to heavily rely on their video game and using that to gain fans. The thing TNA doesn't do that would help them, is really listen to their fans, hire some guy to go on message boards to see what people say. They seem to have taken the Vince McMahon "we're too big to care" stance. That doesn't work when I guarantee that 1.1 million each week is primarily internet fans. TNA tries to grow and seems to think that they are, when your booking blows, you can't. To me if TNA doesn't pick it self up by the time their game is out, they may as well enjoy their final time. The game will get people to watch, but when they see it sucks and they get more action from the game than the show it's named after, TNA will lose. So yeah, I would honestly say 2008 will be their make or break year. They can either say the fans and keep doing what they're doing, or listen to who can really help them. People will say internet fans don't know, we kinda do. Sure we're the most unsatisfied group when it comes to champions or whatever, but if you take certain parts out and just listen to what we say about the awful angles where briefcases make number one contenders only to ignore that come January, we can help. It's not rocket science, it's pro wrestling.

I don't want TNA to get big.
It's good as it is now.
WWE got bigger and look what happened to them.

I really think 2007 was more of a growing year for them, they got 2 Hours, They did more PPV's outside of the Impact Zone and they toured alot more than ever before.

If TNA doesn't step their game up with year they're doomed, Im hoping they'll do an Impact outside the Impact Zone.

...they elevated the industry to a national level, defeated their three biggest rivals, acquired a metric load of classic footage in the process, and became the single most successful wrestling company of all time, to the point that they still make millions of dollars a year despite putting out a subpar product?

Dear lord, you're right, TNA doesn't want that at all.

Just get their booking straight, and people other than the IWC, will watch. Case in point, despite being innovative in some parts, fire Vince Russo, and get someone who knows what the fans want. JArrett, Cornette, HEyman = Booking HEaven. Just don't let Heyman anywhere NEAR that budget. Remember what happened last time he had control of a budget.

Im hoping for a change. I think they should fire Russo actually have good storylines. But nothing will change this year.

They have to get rid of Russo if they want anything good to happen.

Lance Storm may have his share of ideas after seeing the show every week, but how do we know that he could churn out the ideas every time he shows up for work?

To me, Storm is a critic. Critics don't do the work, they bitch about it. I'm not saying you're wrong, and I'm not saying Storm sucks. What I'm saying is that you can't judge his creativity and long term helpfulness based on the fact that after the show is over and done with, Lance has his own say.

Half of us on this board could come up with better ideas than TNA is currently using, for god's sake.

Russo has very little to do with anything in TNA. The stuff he has done is bad but not nearly as bad as Dutch and Jeff.