OK, let me tell you why you're all wrong...

Floppage said:
The billiards academy I am enrolled in will sometimes ask that students contribute an article to one or more publications. Usually it's in the form of an instructional article on form, strategy or something like that. However, in my case it turned into an op-ed explaining what I think is wrong with pool and how to fix it.

Yeah, I know...

There is something profoundly obnoxious about someone new to a sport coming in and telling everyone how to fix it.

So, without further adieu I will submit myself to the ridicule of my forum peers.

http://www.sneakypetemafia.com/welcome-to-pool-its-dying-so-dont-get-comfortable-kyle-eberle-2/

Oh, and in addition to being an obnoxious know-it-all I am also really long-winded so they couldn't print the full version. Just in case you're really bored you'll find it here.

http://www.chicobilliards.com/Solution
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Peers, may be pushing it with 90% of the posters :thumbup: there are many here that just create conflict, and hide behind their keyboard, and a large percentage of them have never really understood the game/cept from the perspective of a bar or a home table environment.

You, like myself and a few others, let others know who we are and if we're right so be it, and if wrong we'll learn, like committing to a shot and processing the results. If you ever need another inside perspective, I'll gladly assist....my attitude and perception of the game have totally matured thru time. Ck out some of my prior threads, you'll get a feel of who this Grandpa is, and I have won one pro event 1989. I also worked in office/BCA during there move to CO with the ''pipe dream'' of getting into the Olympics. The boards actions, made me think they legalized CO MJ in 2001.


Fresh perspectives are most welcome here. Merry Xmas
 
CJ Wiley said:
On the other hand when ask if they would be interested in watching pool if they knew the player and had heard them tell interesting stories about "gambling at pool and life on the road", jumped up to over 70% in one and 80% in the older demographic...
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That's one of the most loaded survey questions I've ever seen...outside of politics.

The survey would have gotten 70% positive response if it asked "if they would be interested in watching pool if they knew the player and fill in the blank." You can finish that question with "...heard them tell interesting stories about how they overcame adversity" (OMG if I have to listen to one more Olympic athlete's story about overcoming adversity I'll go postal).

People are saying "Yes" to the if they knew the player part of the question, not the stories part.

Gambling in pool is not the problem. The problem is the behavior of the gamblers.

This has happened four times in the last three months to me and my friends while playing pool: Two guys come up to our table and ask us to gamble. We say "no, we're just playing a fun game." They go on and on, bugging us gamble, calling names and being obnoxious. The pool world calls it "woofing"; I call it being an a$$whole.
 
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