Let's see.....
av84fun said:
Tom, I would modify your view to this extent. Unless MG is fabulously wealthy AND doesn't care about making a profit on his ventures, then he will either get substantial industry support, his tour will have very modest economics or won't go forward at all.
Regards,
Jim
If you take 60,000 members of a league and take 3-4$ of dues, giving them an incentive by having an agreement with the pros to donate some time to giving exhibitions etc..., then you start off with 180,000-200,000 of monies to have tournaments for the professional league. That alone is a lot more than is currently out there and that's with absolutely NO sponsorship whatsoever outside of the league.
Now, what you've also done is raised interest and awareness by those said 60,000 peoples in the pro events and pro players. "THAT IS WHAT WE NEED!"
I've been saying this for awhile, league players don't care about pro pool. If they did then they would watch it on TV and corporate sponsorship would be easier to obtain. There are a lot of league players and ballbangers out there. If we could harness their interests so that they enjoy following pool as much as most of those here on the forum do, then that would go a long way to bringing a viable pro tour to fruition.
No one in the world has the ability to gain the bangers interests in the world of pro pool like the league owners and operators do. If you can get even a small percentage of league players to get interested in pro pool and the players, then word of mouth could give it the jolt that it has needed to bring it to the next level. Besides, there doesn't seem a way that professional pool could possibly get into worse trouble than it is today.
I absolutely think that Mark has the acumen to bring this off, and "Mark, I would even be interested in going to work there full time to help bring it off if you need the help." P.M. me if you're interested and capable.
Jaden.