It's been ugly being a Quakes fan over the last four years, and with the glorious exception of 2012, wasn't much better than that since the franchise (temporarily) departed after the 2005 season. The team is in need of some major repairs to fix the results on the field and the unrest in the stands, and in my two years of covering and analyzing the club, I have a few opinions on how they might do so.
One major impediment is the fact that MLS, unlike the NBA, doesn't provide major assets to its worst teams in order to help them turn the ship around.