petie
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Petie, You may not be aware, but the PBA was just formed in 1959..A few top notch bowler's got together and put up a few bucks apiece, and hired a PR firm and a secretary, and look where that took them..Probably the most boring sport in the world to watch, but they now have 8-10 million up for grabs, and lots of big name sponsors..I won't even get into Golf..Can you envision a few pool players doing something like that ?...Always been that way...So sad !!! I tried to organize pool along those lines, in the 60's...Talk about a fruitless, thankless task...I soon gave up..
Keep trying, Dick. We learn from our failures. 99% of the very successful people in this world failed several times before finally succeeding. All great projects have great obstacles. Start by forming a committee of smart, interested, honest, people to collect ideas and make a game plan. They could meet at DCC and go from there. It might take a few years of trying but guess what a few years of not trying will get you. I'd like to nominate Nick Varner, Robert Melrose, Billy Incardona, Steve Booth, Jim McDermit, Greg Sullivan and yourself as the Ad Hoc committee to invite other members to form a credible, non-exploitative, pro-actively advocative, Professional Players' Association.