Gambling and drugs in the pool community?? Say it ain't so.Florida State's squad unfortunately collapsed in the early 90's due to gambling and recreational drug use. Good times.
University pool rooms have been declining for the last 40–50 years. when I was in college back in the late 1970s the ACUI collegiate tournament was still thriving, playing 14.1. You had to win your regional competition to make it to the a ACUI nationals.Anyone know of colleges in the USA that have an active pool team/community?
I'm from Cornell University, we have one.
Gambling and drugs in the pool community?? Say it ain't so.
I shot on the Virginia Tech Billiards Team from '07-'11, and we would also make the trek up to the University of Michigan for the ACUI UMTPC event. Still one of the prettiest pool halls I've ever been in, so sad it's gone.University pool rooms have been declining for the last 40–50 years. when I was in college back in the late 1970s the ACUI collegiate tournament was still thriving, playing 14.1. You had to win your regional competition to make it to the a ACUI nationals.
I played in regional events at both UT in Knoxville and Virginia Tech in Blacksburg – both had very impressive pool rooms which I’m guessing may no longer even be in existence. Just under 20 years ago my son played at the BCA junior nationals at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, another very impressive pool room that is no longer.
I’m wondering if the ACUI collegiate nationals even still exists for pool, if anyone knows? For a few years we had a university pool club that would meet at our pool room once a week. Unfortunately, for most of the members it was just a social focus, and very few of them really even cared to try to improve their games. After the student that got it started graduated, the club quickly died out for lack of interest.
Aka: deemed a success by all participants.Florida State's squad unfortunately collapsed in the early 90's due to gambling and recreational drug use. Good times.
I was wondering about VA tech.I shot on the Virginia Tech Billiards Team from '07-'11, and we would also make the trek up to the University of Michigan for the ACUI UMTPC event. Still one of the prettiest pool halls I've ever been in, so sad it's gone.
The Pool Hall at Virginia Tech is still there as far as I know, 13 Gold Crowns, 1 Diamond and a 12 ft Snooker Table. The Billiards Club that fed into the ACUI events just needs revamping I'm sure.
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL & I.I.T. both had Student Unions with tables, but no teams that I knew of when I filmed them.Anyone know of colleges in the USA that have an active pool team/community?
I'm from Cornell University, we have one.
this indeed is a sad story.I was in the University of Pittsburgh Billiards club from 2000-2005. Played the ACUI Regionals and came in 2nd two times just missing the nationals, though I know my game would not have been up to par at Nationals.
The Pitt Rec center in the student Union used to have 13 8’ tables (12 GC’s and 1 Gandy), a 10ft Snooker Table and a beautiful late 1800’s Brunswick 3 Cushion table from the old Schenley Hotel Pittsburgh. Sadly they got rid of most of the tables to make way for more Dance Dance Revolution machines and an area for a band and other things. I believe they only have 2 tables left and the room really isn’t a pool room anymore.
I was president of the Pitt Billiards club when I graduated (something that had been going for nearly 20 years) and the following year I assisted the new president in his request for funding (to cover renting out the room every Thursday night for our club night) to the student activities council…which was made up of students elected into the student government board. They casually pretended to listen to us at the meeting and then told us the student activities budget just couldn’t possibly find a couple thousand dollars to allocate (our yearly budget was just over $2k). We had the lowest total $ amount request of any of the student activities at the meeting, nearly all of which were granted other than ours…some of the crap that was approved was mind numbing…that was how the Pitt Billiards club died after 20 yrs. Most of the tables were gone a few years later.
Still makes me sad…but just a long winded way to say that University of Pittsburgh needs to be removed from that list.