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I think at the last PPV they attempted to sell what either Foley or Jarrett's match vs Angle as something that would change TNA forever.  Neither came up even close to a life changing event, but the whole marketing ploy of "changing XXX forever" has become trite.  Nonetheless, I want to delve into the idea of what could change TNA as well as some goals that they need to achieve in 2009:

• Fire Vince Russo.  This is a given. Everyone knows this in the industry.  Or make him work on gimmicks for people at the bottom rung that need a personality overhaul.
• More wrestling, less talk.  I think 6-8 matches per TV show should be the average.  There's just too many talk segments that lead to nowhere.  Keep the Rough Cut segments as those are interesting and actually differentiate TNA's wrestlers from the WWE.  But the vast majority of backstage segments must go.
• Longer matches.  There are no real epic matches in TNA.  There have been a few good matches but nothing that made heads turn.  They have the talent to land a potential 5 star match, but the limited PPV and/or TV time alloted for these matches have hampered any significant build to become epics.  The closest ones I can recall were Samoa Joe vs Kurt Angle and Chris Harris vs James Storm.
• Stop signing up aging WWE stars.  They haven't helped and probably even hurt the product to a degree.  At this stage, TNA has done enough to get a few of their key players as being recognizable.  Now, they must do more.
• Have a better in-house training facility.  They really need their own training camp like WCW's old Power Plant.  At least, something that tells people that TNA isn't grabbing external stars exclusively.
• Grab the Briscoe Brothers.  I'd like to really see them in TNA.
• More time for the women's matches.  My biggest problem with the Knockout division is that they are not given enough time to improve.  I think there are enough women with good characters to define the division.  Now, they need to learn how to wrestle good matches.  Gail Kim and Awesome Kong were the only two pulling out good matches, but with Gail gone there's not a lot of depth Kong can work with.
• Do an angle with ROH.  The only thing that can change TNA in terms of the "change forever" slogan is working with ROH in a major cross promotional angle.  TNA can't compete against the WWE; they don't have the money nor the resources.  But they have enough talent to put on good shows and they have TV time.  This is the only possible route that would allow TNA to grow since there would be authentic emotion inviolved in such an angle.
• Get rid of the older stars that no longer can perform. Sting must leave.  Steiner probably should go if he's injury prone.  Even Nash.  Or at least  make Nash into a color commentator.