I am Truly disappointed in the future of this sport. I have been waiting and waiting for one man to appear that will take over this sport and establish a strong governing body for players. Don;t the players know that they are cutting their own throat by the shennanigans they pull. Who is your choice to lead the pool world ? Someone must step up that has the strength to do it ? Please provide your comments .
I dont disagree with you as far as the sport not having a one governing body.
Right now in the US there seems to be multiple governing bodiy's, such as the APA, BCAPL, VNEA, TAP, etc but no one person governing all. Do I honestly think that will ever happen? No, too much money to be lost by certain leagues for that to happen.
Am I disappointed in the future of the game. Right now I am not, I am very excited about the future. Now I do not know him personally, but Mark Griffin seems to have structured a company (CSI) that is made up of 11 individuals that all want to make big strides in the pool world within the US.
The reason why I am saying CSI is if you just look back a few years. The CSI team has been involved in setting up or significantly helping out in so many events within the United States, 10 ball, one pocket, bar box championship, swanee, etc. These events do not include what the BCAPL (which is part of CSI) has done also with adding regional, local, and increasing National events.
So does setting up events make you a stong governing body, no I dont think so, but it has shown the integrity of the CSI team. I have never heard of one issue from any of their previouse events that would make me believe they may have an integrity problem.
So do I expect Mark Griffin and CSI to be the one person to establish a strong governing body? Yes I do, not to call you out CSI. But, can they do it alone, no way.
As far as someone should step up? Well I think that someone is each and every pool player. We as pool players have to show our support of the CSI team by assisting it in helping it grow.
I know that sounds like I'm a salesman for CSI, but IMHO, CSI is the only cooperation within the US that is actively promoting more and more pool events Nationwide for amatuers and professionals. I dont feel bad one bit about spending $15 to become a member of the BCAPL because I know it is supporting the players and people making an effort to have pool excel within the US for all caliber of players.
The BCAPL is currently what 60000 members and the other league just set the world record for most members at like 300000. Could you imagine what the pool world would be like if CSI had 5 times what it has now....it would be amazing in my opinion.