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Cuetec has a forum??? who knew....
McCue Banger McCue
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Even if it were true, who cares? I don't know why anyone would support Strickland at this point. I am proud of the Cuetec owners for having the balls to step up and say Earl has become a black eye on the billiard community.
JAM constantly tells us how Earl "made" Cuetec. Yeah.. AND? So what if Cuetec did benefit from the sponsorship? I'm sure Earl wasn't too much bothered by getting a check every month, either.
In my opinion, they kept Earl on way longer than they should have. He hasn't been a threat to win a major tournament in quite a while. In sports marketing, as a player, you KNOW that you have to take advantage of sponsorships while you are playing well, because if you start playing badly, you stand to lose your sponsorships. If you are a likeable person, sponsorships can often extend well past the period where a player is a threat to win. Earl does not fit that bill.
As far as attitudes go, he has ALWAYS had a bad attitude. The only thing that got him a pass was his phenomenal skill, mental focus, and resultant ability to win.
Now that he has lost his focus, he's just a mediocre pro. The top players now probably consider him an easy draw. Heck, he got beat by a girl other than Allison.. That speaks LOADS about where his head is at.
Oops JAM, was that what was called a "sucker-punch"? Let the flame war begin!
Russ
JAM constantly tells us how Earl "made" Cuetec. Yeah.. AND? So what if Cuetec did benefit from the sponsorship? I'm sure Earl wasn't too much bothered by getting a check every month, either.
In my opinion, they kept Earl on way longer than they should have. He hasn't been a threat to win a major tournament in quite a while. In sports marketing, as a player, you KNOW that you have to take advantage of sponsorships while you are playing well, because if you start playing badly, you stand to lose your sponsorships. If you are a likeable person, sponsorships can often extend well past the period where a player is a threat to win. Earl does not fit that bill.
As far as attitudes go, he has ALWAYS had a bad attitude. The only thing that got him a pass was his phenomenal skill, mental focus, and resultant ability to win.
Now that he has lost his focus, he's just a mediocre pro. The top players now probably consider him an easy draw. Heck, he got beat by a girl other than Allison.. That speaks LOADS about where his head is at.
Oops JAM, was that what was called a "sucker-punch"? Let the flame war begin!
Russ
Klopek said:That forum was down six months ago or more. People talk too much.
This whole thing with Earl and Cuetec is getting entirely too much airtime on AZB.
Well, the IPT bashing finally stalled to a dead stop. We needed fresh meat to turn into hamburger and here it is.
I can hear the meat grinder in high gear as we speak.
JAM said:
JAM,
I am not sure what you mean. I am old enough to have watched Earl play on television. Yes, he was a phenomenal player. No, I did not take up the game because of him. I was already hooked.
Let me clarify my stance on sponsorships and sports/games. Some of this has little to do with pool, but in my mind, the concepts apply in pool as well.
I am extremely irritated at the state of the sports world. Basketball, football, baseball players as well as those from other sports get paid massive amounts to endorse products. They had little thought of that as an income base when they were perfecting their skills. They improved in most cases for love of the game. With fame, came sponsorships.
Now, in my mind, if you take money because you are very skilled in something, you owe it to the company endorsing you to behave properly, unless you have an unusal endorsement that encourages negative publicity.
Sports players get into all sorts of legal trouble in situations where they should have known better. It used to be, these players would almost universally lose their endorsements. That was another time period in sports history, I guess.
In my opinion, moral clauses are not being enforced. Kobe Bryant sleeping around on his wife? That right there, in my book, is enough to make him lose all his endorsements. He did not do so.
Earl Strickland? He is the epitome of every element of bad sportsmanship. We should not have tolerated it as an industry. I am ashamed of professional pool for letting him act this way, past and present.
To me, no high level of performance is EVER worth sacrificing sportsmanship. And that's where we are in our discussion. If the viewing public wants to see arguments between competitors, they need to go watch Survivor:Kuala Lumpur or something.
Pool is bigger than Earl. It always will BE bigger than Earl.
Russ
JAM said:
Heh heh.. Thank you, if that statement was sincere. I always wanted to be a lawyer. Debate always attracted me. Things didn't work out when I was younger, and I went into the Army instead.
If I had went to law school, I probably would have ended up as a prosecutor. I don't think I could stomach any other area of law.
Russ