Discussion PBA News http://forums.bowl.com/index.php Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:26:49 +0000 60 http://forums.bowl.com/index.php?showtopic=395
What the PBA did in August to remove previous host center sponsors for the Fall tour should extend to the Winter Tour as well but not for another month in Detroit kind of thing.

The PBA and bowling needs the kind of exposure it gets in a bowling center environemnt but what it does not need is depending on one center to carry most of the load and represent a region of non supportive centers as it pretty much does now. Medford should not have stood alone in the first place and if it did not there would not have been a need to cancel.

There is no way much of the costs can come from a host center running even very good pro-ams, having maximum spectators paying a good ticket price or good advertising support for a program book and all three probably are far from being major successes for most host centers.

The best way to cover the costs is for the PBA to work with bowling centers to increase their income and share in that increase, For that to happen there needs to be well thought out bottom line reasons for centers who will not host to be supportive.

I think an important first step is to divide the country into regionals each of which has an office, a number of centers and local associations they serve, the costs borne by bowling centers and other for profits who do business with bowling centers and their customers.

A second step, and only one of many roles for regionals, so far as regional support for PBA is to seek out centers within each region that are capable and willing to host national tournaments and others capable and willing to host the not so demanding regionals program, asking nothing more from those centers than be hosts and the events rotate thoughout the region rather than in the same center every year.

The third step is to do what they should have doing for a very long time, work harder to get the super stars of bowling well known within bowling centers and among the casual and non bowlers outside the bowling centers with promotions that are tied to watching the tv shows.

The 4th step is to create leagues and tournaments linked on the internet that is new business for the centers who agree to a percentage of lineage revenue going to cover the costs of marketing and support for PBA. Rather than 'beg', create good bottom line reasons that will encourage centers to participate in larger numbers, if successful, and willing to give up a percentage of that income as their bottom lines profit from their association with the PBA.

With just five new bowlers participating on each of 100,000 available lane beds each week that would produce 500,000 lines and if each line was just $3 with half going to the promotion that would amount to $750,000 found money in lineage alone for centers and $750,000 to cover the marketing costs and support PBA. I think in time that weekly income could double, triple and more with the entire bowling industry profiting.

However, bowling is stuck in a fragmented system unique onto itself, no other successful non profit or for profit organization even thinking of doing things as they are done within the bowling community and it would not surpise me at all if the PBA was to lose more sponsors, more hosts and go down the tubes just as the PWBA did which should never have happened.]]> Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:38:59 +0000 http://forums.bowl.com/index.php?showtopic=395 http://forums.bowl.com/index.php?showtopic=155 http://bowlinghood.b...oover-dies.html]]> Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:49:13 +0000 http://forums.bowl.com/index.php?showtopic=155 http://forums.bowl.com/index.php?showtopic=146
As good as Missy is, I do not see her listed, as an exempt PBA member, in the list of exempt players on PBA.com. I could be wrong, but I thought Kelly Kulick, was the first exempt woman PBA member???]]> Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:01:30 +0000 http://forums.bowl.com/index.php?showtopic=146 http://forums.bowl.com/index.php?showtopic=131
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Motor City, top five Williams, Barnes, Weber, Jones, O'Neill

Cheetah, taping of bowling from start to finish with Ciminelli vs Duke in final best 4 of 7

Viper Haugen/Smallwood Jaros/Page Barnes/Johnson (women)

Chameleon, Monacelli/O'Neill Rash/Russell Ballard/Pluhowsky

Scorpion, Belmonte/Smallwood Rash/Devaney Johnson/Pluhowsky

Shark Fagan/Couch Juruk/Malott Kulick/Dorin

World Championships

Kulick/Pluhowsky (women) Miller/Sullins (Seniors)

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Without going into any great detail until interest is demonstrated by others, my often stated view is there should be a top to bottom separate division created, supported financially by bowling centers and other for profits that include regionals and local support that has nothing to do with being elected to be a part of, committees within existing locals if possible, outside if not possible, but no funding from local or national membership fees for what they do, noone on committees that does not have an interest, willingness and needed expertise to volunteer their services for with no need to do anything but serve on the committee they have an interest in.

Regionals would include support of professional bowling among many other responsibilites that require more financial support to be successful than will ever be available if funded only from membership fees.

It is my view a major problem for overall support of the PBA is hosting by one center rather than moving them around, ditto for regional tournaments. to gain support needed from every center for good bottom line reasons I think there should be centers within each region capable of hosting asked to do so on a rotation basis that costs them nothing other than having their lanes available for the time needed, ditto for regional tournaments.

Any takers willing to comment and having ideas of their own on this subject. Those with no ideas to replace those who just want to criticize are not the kind of takers I am looking for.]]> Sun, 09 Aug 2009 14:00:55 +0000 http://forums.bowl.com/index.php?showtopic=48