ToddM: don, i think you hit upon the solution to bring back all of those millions of bowlers and also bring in millions more. WE PESTER THEM UNTIL THEY GIVE IN! *laughs* kidding.
don,
i think you hit upon the solution to bring back all of those millions of bowlers and also bring in millions more.
WE PESTER THEM UNTIL THEY GIVE IN!
*laughs* kidding.
...and then we can pester them until they go away again so we can pester them some more. Don this pestering Idea of yours is absolutely brilliant.
Todd, if persuading adults to return or become bowlers was as easy as recruiting youngsters who attend a bowling birthday party to have one for themselves there would be an overflow. Glow bowling pretty much works that way, too, someone has a great time, persuades a friend to join in and it grows from there with no program director needed to promote it.
When automatic pin spotters and more attractive bowling centers made bowling more family friendly a popular way to build ladies day time leagues was to recruit a neighborhood woman with the offer of free bowling if they could put together a team from among her neighborhood friends. It was a no brainer success for a long time as new captains (they called it captain and crew) were recruited from crews and the leagues grew.
Of course, for something to go on forever as is seldom happens. Birthday bowling parties and glow bowling will grow but sometime will peak and begin to fade away as something else takes its place as the 'place to be' and 'thing to do'. For ladies most day time leagues went away when as stay at home house wife population went away.
At Bowl Expo I talked to BPAA leadership who recognize this and are fearful that too many bowling center owners do not and think open play and things like birthday parties and glow bowling will go on and grow forever with no need to concern themselves with leagues and competitive bowling.
It's pretty much 'all in' for USBC and BPAA leadership to find a way together to restore integrity for competitive bowling and recognize the need for and promote league bowling by offering it in a way that more men, women and youth will accept. Some posters state, without thinking or need to know if what they state is based on anything more than whatever happens to come out of their mouths, that BPAA is only interested in taking over USBC, that most of what leadership at BPAA/USBC thinks about are selfish, self serving ways to gouge more income from bowlers with little regard for what they take in being used wisely to benefit the bowlers so those bowlers will continue to provide good incomes for bowling centers and membership for USBC.
I think, based on conversations I have had with leadership, and sencerely hope those posters are dead wrong!!! It can't be accomplished over night and will take a great deal of careful planning but I feel better days are acoming if the best laid plans do not meet the same fate the original well planned SMO did. Both BPAA and USBC have big time problems making things work well within the lousy top to bottom system in place right now for both of them.
Don Gates
on your next visit with your doctor would you have him check to see if you have a funny bone?.?.?
wow, what a way to kill a joke.
Todd, sorry, should have aimed that post at skullpants.
no need to be sorry don.
i was just making a joke and figured you might want to joke along too.
Huh??? I thought Don was joking.
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