What do you think could make a TAR-type venture work? Is it impossible?

[JoeyA]

You need to show the personalities of the players, and play it up so people have a hero (or villain) to root for.
Have them talk a little trash (I wouldn't really care if it's all marketing and not heartfelt).
Talk up the rivalries. Give everyone background and some personal tidbits.
Maybe even get footage outside the studio of these guys at home or in their home poolrooms.

Even though AZ will go on and on about the race, the rules, the specific games,
and what skills the players have (or lack)... I think what we actually CARE about are the people.

I may experiment with this in future commentary just to see how it all shakes out.
JoeyA

 

[Black-Balled]

Girl Scouts of America and Boy Scouts should be approached about adding pool to the program! Dr. Dave style in my opinion. Integrating physics into the game and problem solving. Statistical analysis of the break like Joe Tucker did with his video's and some fancy trick shots from Venom to really get the kids attention.

I mention this topic as My daughter is in girls scouts and my mother a troop leader. My daughters troop leader came over while I was playing one pocket and once I explained the object of the game and she realized the degree of difficult and witnessed a power one pocket run out from down 5 to -1 win. Her eyes got big and she loved what she was witnessing. People in my opinion are MORE cerebral in my opinion and capable of advance thinking and concepts. 9 ball seems to dumb everything down unfortunately!

Back on topic. I believe TAR can find a home at Lindenwood University or even my old alma-mater UMBC University of Maryland Baltimore County! Many Universities have space and ballrooms that they would allow use of their facility. Free exposure and advertising. The facility is never used anyway! It is a win win situation for them and you could even sweeten the pot by having who ever plays spend a little time with the host universities billiard team giving an hour or so of their time in instruction.

The Girl Scouts of America have a beautiful cabin and acres of land that was donated to them over the years in my area alone. They would be interested in a TAR partnership. Bring in Jeanette Lee and Dr. Dave to work with the girls and when it rains the girls are stuck in the cabins and what better way to get rid of cabin fever then a pool table for the girls. They got money and facilities. The Boy Scouts of America as well could be a great partner.

Gallaudet University would love to do a whole piece on Shane Van Boening. My neighbor across the street is a professor there. They love showcasing success stories of people over coming hearing disabilities. That university is dedicated to the hearing impaired. They and other universities even pay to bring in trick shot artists. Doctor Cue Tom Rossman travels the college circuit doing trick shots on campus at like $1000 a pop. He did them for years while I was in school.

Sorry for the long post. Just food for thought.

KD

I have thought a few times about trying to hook svb an Gallaudet up. It would be frigging awesome to see svb get some collige smarts and parlay that into billiard business success.

 

[Joe_Jaguar]

All I needed to make TAR a success is 1000 people on earth to pay to watch the best players on earth. On two or three occasions out of thirty nine we got to half that number. AZ Forums has 47,000 registered members. If you can not get 2 percent of people who know enough about pool to sign up to AZ to buy something then that tells me people just are not interested in what you are selling.

That is pretty damn sad.

I’m glad I had the opportunity to fly out and see the first Studio match between SVB and Alex, and then this past weekend for what would be the last Studio match. Both players were class acts and you put on a good show. Good luck with things down the road.


Joe V