To listen to some of the "ignorance is bliss" crowd over there, you would think that Corey has got a virtual lock on winning at Sheffield next year.
As I see it, the problem with snooker in the US is that it is a "chicken or egg" scenario. That is, anyone who can or would provide capital support to develop snooker in the US will not do so without a profit motive and that means it won't happen until the talent pool deepens in order to ensure a marketable product that people would be willing to pay for. And the people who have demonstrated the greatest potentially marketable talent, i.e., the professional pool players who actually manage to make a living doing this, not just waste their hard earned wages at the local pool room, will not jump in to deepen that potential snooker talent pool until they know the money is there to make it worth their while.
There is no doubt in my mind that some of the better pool playing talents from the US or any other country could make the switch and succeed at Professional Snooker but to do so would be a huge risk for them as they would be just as likely to go bankrupt trying. Until there is financial incentive to wean them gently into snooker while continuing to earn a living, very few if any will bother trying. While I was happy to see Corey Deuel throw his hat in the ring at the US Nationals, I doubt that he will take this experiment much further because to do so simply will not be likely to put food on his plate. While I hope that I am wrong, I am pretty certain that he will not go to the World Amateur Championships to represent the US, and I even doubt that he will return to the US National Snooker Championships next year because he can probably make more money in some pool tournament somewhere else.
Again, if you bother to pay any attention to the trash talk over there, Corey ("the professional pool player") Deuel has proven that the pool playing crowd is far superior to us regular joe, working stiff, enjoy-snooker-on-the-weekends-when-we-can "wannabees" so I guess they have made their point. :rotflmao: (And by the way, I know there are plenty of good and open minded pool players who have proper due respect for all of the cue sport disciplines, as do I. This of course is not directed at you; I have read your posts and I appreciate your perspective. To argue about which is the "superior" cue sport is an effort in futility. One may as well argue about which is the "superior" color: red or blue. Simply enjoy what you enjoy.)
