Nobody in their right mind would blow their nose for $6/hr. That's a painful process, and going a full 60 minutes for that paltry wage is just utterly ridiculous.
Anyway I think having an official out there next year will be great and lend at least some officialdom to it all.
And again, it's nothing personal toward the team, it's just not a fan-friendly atmosphere. There are a lot of matches going on at once so you can't watch them all, you have to watch through a black screen on most of the courts, there isn't much in the way of seating, there might be five, seven people total out there outside of the players and coaches, and there's no band, cheerleader, mascot, music, etc. Not that you usually get that in tennis anyway, but those are elements you get at bigger, more fan-friendly, events in the spectator sports. And, unless you're really on top of things it's going to be difficult to know what the score is since there's no display. Oh yeah, and the casual fan is going to have a tough time knowing who is who. Maybe if there was a schedule of who was playing on what court, maybe some ranking or something ... something to indicate to the casual observer that "hey ... this person over here is really good! Oh, and she has a name!", might help those who do come to watch.
The matches also happen at inopportune times, and have been known to start at times different than that on the schedule. That also puts a kink in the plans of making it out.
It's not necessarily your fault or the team's that it's hard to come out and enjoy some tennis – but, regardless of blame, that's the case. Plus, there aren't just a lot of tennis aficionados around here anyway, and you have to have a pretty decent appreciation of tennis to sit out there and watch and really enjoy a match.
But anyway I don't want to come off sounding like the tennis team doesn't deserve any respect or anything like that. It just goes back to the first post in this thread where he said that tennis doesn't get any pub ... there are reasons why.