FSR -The Elephant in the Room

[overlord]

Amen to that brother and part of the challenge is to make the poolroom a better place for the young folks.

I don't see it happening in LA. Just getting the permits for a pool hall is next to impossible.

Most pool rooms need a liquor license to make any real money and the combination is not easy to get.

The insurance companies don't like under 21 year olds in pool rooms because of gangs.

The upper end pool rooms are long gone.

Often times in LA if the pool room owners, own the real estate, the real estate becomes worth way more than the business.

So the rooms get sold off and are developed into another use.

If you don't have pool rooms how are you gonna have a pool industry?

LA is a huge potential market.

 

[sjm]

I don't see it happening in LA. Just getting the permits for a pool hall is next to impossible.

Most pool rooms need a liquor license to make any real money and the combination is not easy to get.

The insurance companies don't like under 21 year olds in pool rooms because of gangs.

The upper end pool rooms are long gone.

Often times in LA if the pool room owners, own the real estate, the real estate becomes worth way more than the business.

So the rooms get sold off and are developed into another use.

If you don't have pool rooms how are you gonna have a pool industry?

LA is a huge potential market.

Great post! You seem to be saying that the realities of the poolroom scene today are a fundamental barrier to getting youth involved in our sport and use the example of your own city to back it up. I hope you're wrong, but we'll see how it all plays out.

 

[justnum]

For promotion of sports in youth markets in America, high school and college provide a large amount of sales for sports products.

Imagine if Matchroom or Predator sponsored college scholarship programs. Both are building a new industry have they considered expansion into the college market? Would a position in the academic arena be worthwhile?

The scholarship program ensures promotional events will happen to a youth population. The scholarship could be for tech, business, marketing, journalism, film, communications or management. It would be the Predator scholarship. Or Matchroom hosts a prize competition for best fantasy pool tournament on a budget or essay contest.

 

[sjm]

For promotion of sports in youth markets in America, high school and college provide a large amount of sales for sports products.

Imagine if Matchroom or Predator sponsored college scholarship programs. Both are building a new industry have they considered expansion into the college market? Would a position in the academic arena be worthwhile?

The scholarship program ensures promotional events will happen to a youth population. The scholarship could be for tech, business, marketing, journalism, film, communications or management. It would be the Predator scholarship. Or Matchroom hosts a prize competition for best fantasy pool tournament on a budget or essay contest.

Certainly well said, but don't overlook the fact that Matchroom is already investing in Junior Tournaments, using its resources to produce the SVB Junior Open during the last US Open and the Jayson Shaw Junior Open at the upcoming UK Open.

Ra Hanna's junior tour is opening new doors for juniors, too, and one of his tour stops is at Pat Fleming's International Open every October.

As for grass roots level development like college scholarships, it's not clear why a sports production company like Matchroom should be involved, but Predator's main business is equipment sales to amateurs so it's easy to understand why they might well support such efforts.

All that said, grass roots development of the game lies chiefly in the hands of poolroom owners and the governing bodies of the game and if they don't do enough, one can hardly expect the event producers to pick up the slack.

 

[justnum]

Certainly well said, but don't overlook the fact that Matchroom is already investing in Junior Tournaments, using its resources to produce the SVB Junior Open during the last US Open and the Jayson Shaw Junior Open at the upcoming UK Open.

Ra Hanna's junior tour is opening new doors for juniors, too, and one of his tour stops is at Pat Fleming's International Open every October.

As for grass roots level development like college scholarships, it's not clear why a sports production company like Matchroom should be involved, but Predator's main business is equipment sales to amateurs so it's easy to understand why they might well support such efforts.

All that said, grass roots development of the game lies chiefly in the hands of poolroom owners and the governing bodies of the game and if they don't do enough, one can hardly expect the event producers to pick up the slack.

The scholarship program makes it easier to find quick hires or ensure people are trained to a minimum standard.

If one Emily Frazer can do all you say, then imagine a graduating class of Emily Frazers.

 

[wilhelm]