Mike Panozzo's From the Publisher column has once again hit the nail on the head ---> HERE.
Everybody *does* say what pool needs is another movie. Yet, when something pops up in mainstream media about pool, nobody takes the bull by the horns and runs with it. Now it's too late for the Prince Harry frenzy, but the opportunity was there, just waiting for the taking.
I always said that ice skating got put on the map when Tanya Harding whacked Nancy Kerrigan in the knee. Thereafter, all eyes were glued on ice skating. It rose in popularity tenfold. :grin-square:
Most pool enthusiasts agree that pool needs a boost in the United States, but nobody can agree on how to accomplish this task. Sure, a movie would be great or even a well-written book. A biography of the Stu Ungar of pool might be the ticket. The pool action junkies would love it, but the pool purists would thumb their nose at such an endeavor and claim a book like this would push pool further down in its proverbial gutter. :sorry:
There's a lot of megalomania in pool today. Big egos tend to discount the efforts of others, unless they're involved, of course. Oftentimes pool events are criticized before they gain traction by the American pool culture. I am reminded of the "Galveston, Oh, Galveston."
I'll leave my thoughts about the BCA aside for purposes of this thread, but I believe there is a glaring problem the BCA needs to address, and that's its own negligence of professional pool. :wink:
Until the American pool culture can come to an agreement that gambling, pool's dirty little secret, just might be the accelerant to launch pool to the next frontier, nothing will change. Pool will continue along its merry little way to oblivion, ending up in a status similar to what back yard croquet is today. :embarrassed2:
This is yet another one of those threads about what's wrong with pool, I agree. Maybe someday, somebody, somewhere, somehow will effect a change in pool without getting shot down before they get off the ground.
Everybody *does* say what pool needs is another movie. Yet, when something pops up in mainstream media about pool, nobody takes the bull by the horns and runs with it. Now it's too late for the Prince Harry frenzy, but the opportunity was there, just waiting for the taking.
I always said that ice skating got put on the map when Tanya Harding whacked Nancy Kerrigan in the knee. Thereafter, all eyes were glued on ice skating. It rose in popularity tenfold. :grin-square:
Most pool enthusiasts agree that pool needs a boost in the United States, but nobody can agree on how to accomplish this task. Sure, a movie would be great or even a well-written book. A biography of the Stu Ungar of pool might be the ticket. The pool action junkies would love it, but the pool purists would thumb their nose at such an endeavor and claim a book like this would push pool further down in its proverbial gutter. :sorry:
There's a lot of megalomania in pool today. Big egos tend to discount the efforts of others, unless they're involved, of course. Oftentimes pool events are criticized before they gain traction by the American pool culture. I am reminded of the "Galveston, Oh, Galveston."
I'll leave my thoughts about the BCA aside for purposes of this thread, but I believe there is a glaring problem the BCA needs to address, and that's its own negligence of professional pool. :wink:
Until the American pool culture can come to an agreement that gambling, pool's dirty little secret, just might be the accelerant to launch pool to the next frontier, nothing will change. Pool will continue along its merry little way to oblivion, ending up in a status similar to what back yard croquet is today. :embarrassed2:
This is yet another one of those threads about what's wrong with pool, I agree. Maybe someday, somebody, somewhere, somehow will effect a change in pool without getting shot down before they get off the ground.
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. If it's the love of/hate of gambling that keeps pool downspiralling in this country, then I can almost assure you that pool "will continue along it's merry little way to oblivion". Surely you must know that for every person that you can find that wholeheartedly believes that gambling on pool is the way to lift pool out of its doldrums, you will have a person that thinks just the opposite. Many people, poolplayers included, simply do not believe that gambling in ANY form, let alone in pool, is a healthy/smart endeavor to participate in. There are many people who just plain are disgusted with gambling and have a high degree of disdain towards it. Leave poolplayers out of it and have a poll (ask a thousand or more peopl on the street), and you will probably find more persons against gambling in general than you will for it.
