Canucker
Go Hawks!
You first say you do not want to add players because 1) you do not want team to improve 2) because these players are not good. Which is it? If they are not good the team will not improve.
Next you say you do not want to cheer for a bad team, but you just said you do not want the team to improve. So which is it.
Next you say the team might be worse next year, like that is a bad thing from your perspective.? When earlier you said you want the team to be bad in order to rebuild? SO basically you are not going to be happy no matter what happens. Team improves bad because they ruin draft position. Team stays bad, bad because you do not want to cheer for a "bad team".
Possible scenarios for your happiness. Ownership sells to a new owner who does not care it the team loses value. This new owner with a 5 year plan where the team becomes less valuable each year and may in fact lose money every year then changes management in order to implement money losing plan. Voila after 5 years of good drafting the team becomes a 2014-15 Florida Panther level team, and there is hope.
Team starts to draw fans again, perhaps getting back to 2015-16 levels.
So that is the dream scenario from your prospective. Unless there is an ownership change to people who do not mind losing money for multiple years for the promise of future gains your dream will not happen. This ownership might if the team struggles for a few more years and the fans stop going at that point there is nothing to lose. Right now there is still a lot to lose. No team that makes money is going to implement a plan to lose money. Like Kevin Leary say's "show me the money".
People should look at things from the owner's perspective. Having a plan that lowers team value and loses them money is not how they got rich in the first place. However if the team value drops and they start losing money then there is less risk and more value to your above plan. Right now and for the last 3 years the sell and rebuild fans have ignored the financial implications of this strategy and as a consequence have set themselves up for years of disappointment no matter what happens with their favorite team. I do not blame the owners, Linden, Benning for their moves they are doing exactly what they should be doing based on the money.
Fans don't cheer for the owners profits, they cheer for an exciting team that wins. If they build a team that wins there won't be any issue with the "value" of the franchise.