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kidlost2000

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How do you rate the USBC?
« on: July 14, 2009, 10:22:16 AM »
Simple questions.

How do you rate the USBC and the job it is doing for bowling?

Here is what the USBC states it does on its website:

In addition to numerous benefits, a USBC membership is an investment in bowling’s future, as it supports numerous programs and initiatives that ensure the sport’s continuous growth.
These programs include:

USBC Youth:
Making bowling cool for kids through tournaments, scholarships and leadership opportunities.
USBC High School:
The national resource for America’s fastest growing high school sport.
USBC Collegiate: Creating bowling opportunities to enhance students’ academic, athletic and personal development.
USBC Team USA and Junior Team USA:
Representing the United States in elite international competition.
USBC Tournaments:
More than a dozen national tournaments for youth, adults and seniors of all skill levels.
USBC Coaching:
Providing quality training programs and instructional tools for the bowling community.
USBC Sport Bowling:
Upholding the integrity of the game and providing the competitive bowling experience for those who are passionate about the sport.
SMART:
The Scholarship Management and Accounting Reports for Tenpins program is designed to help organizations set up, manage and disburse youth bowling scholarships as well as help USBC Youth members locate and ensure scholarship dollars for their continuing education.
Registered Volunteer Program:
Ensuring the safety of youth bowlers by introducing background screening and rules of behavior for USBC Youth volunteers.
Equipment Specifications and Certification:
Testing and research that enhance the sport’s credibility.

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Re: How do you rate the USBC?
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2009, 06:23:29 PM »
It also states:

Your USBC membership allows you to:

Compete in certified league bowling – where each bowler has an internationally recognized average.

Be eligible to compete in local, state, more than a dozen national USBC championships and other USBC-certified tournaments.

Experience fair, competitive play with USBC-standardized rules and regulations.

Be confident that your league money is safeguarded under USBC bonding protection.

Receive a subscription to US Bowler or US Youth Bowler, USBC’s quarterly magazines. Adult members also receive the monthly US e-Bowler, USBC’s electronic newsletter.

Earn individual and league awards based on standardized achievements.

Access up-to-the minute bowling information on bowl.com, bowling’s premier Web site, featuring special member sections and chat forums, plus league and tournament standings.

Locate a USBC-certified coach in your area by using the “Find a Coach” feature of the USBC Coaching section of bowl.com.

Lead and grow the sport of bowling at the local level by becoming a USBC volunteer.

Enjoy the fun and social opportunities of being a part of one of America’s largest participatory sport.

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Re: How do you rate the USBC?
« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2009, 09:07:40 PM »
USBC Youth:
Making bowling cool for kids through tournaments, scholarships and leadership opportunities.

Not doing enough.  Bowlopolis I do not think is the answer.

USBC High School:
The national resource for America’s fastest growing high school sport.

States I've been in run this.  What exactly is USBC doing?  Not doing enough.

USBC Collegiate: Creating bowling opportunities to enhance students’ academic, athletic and personal development.

This seems to be doing ok.  Still needs work.

USBC Team USA and Junior Team USA:
Representing the United States in elite international competition.

Lots of work being done here.  How much anyone will benefit from it is to be seen.

USBC Tournaments:
More than a dozen national tournaments for youth, adults and seniors of all skill levels.

Seems same old same old.

USBC Coaching:
Providing quality training programs and instructional tools for the bowling community.

Big changes here.  Still need more.  Lots of work going toward elite athletes. The average bowler probably cares less.  Will help to make bowlers of the future.
 
USBC Sport Bowling:
Upholding the integrity of the game and providing the competitive bowling experience for those who are passionate about the sport.

More and more people trying this.  Still not for the masses.


SMART:
The Scholarship Management and Accounting Reports for Tenpins program is designed to help organizations set up, manage and disburse youth bowling scholarships as well as help USBC Youth members locate and ensure scholarship dollars for their continuing education.

Someone has to do this right.  USBC makes the best sense.

Registered Volunteer Program:
Ensuring the safety of youth bowlers by introducing background screening and rules of behavior for USBC Youth volunteers.

About time.  Safety is needed.

Equipment Specifications and Certification:
Testing and research that enhance the sport’s credibility.

Big things happening here.  A lot of the bowling world is still in the dark ages and has poor information.  I see a lot of things that are just wrong and are excepted as truth.  USBC is working to prove things.  Will the world care?  There is a reason people live in the dark ages.[/b]

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Re: How do you rate the USBC?
« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2009, 11:04:04 PM »
High School--Fastest growing sport.  No kidding, all other sports have been
established for some time and participation is stable.
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Re: How do you rate the USBC?
« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2009, 11:05:51 PM »
High School--Fastest growing sport.  No kidding, all other sports have been
established for some time and participation is stable.  In high schools we had
a saying for this "parade of virgins theory"   They had to cancel the parade
because one girl was sick and the other refused to march alone.
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Re: How do you rate the USBC?
« Reply #5 on: July 14, 2009, 11:58:36 PM »
I personally don't see that what they do is helping the majority of the dues payers. I don't know who decided that all of our dues money would go to enhance youth,high school,college bowling,and coaching but that is definitely the minority of the bowlers out here. I know I didn't have a vote in it.I have no problem helping the youth bowlers but to require that the majority of all of the USBC dues goes to that and the adults get everything taken away I don't like. I do plenty of stuff for youth bowlers. I probably donate 20-30 used balls a season and plug and redrill them for the youth bowlers for $10. ea.
I think that the USBC wastes lots of our money and we get nothing to show for it and the present system of just having a few reps decide what is best for bowling as a whole is the wrong way to run this organization and that is why bowling is in the shape it is. It needs to answer to all of the dues payers not just a token few!!!
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Re: How do you rate the USBC?
« Reply #6 on: July 15, 2009, 08:20:49 AM »
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I personally don't see that what they do is helping the majority of the dues payers. I don't know who decided that all of our dues money would go to enhance youth,high school,college bowling,and coaching but that is definitely the minority of the bowlers out here.


Believe it or not, youth, high school, and college bowlers pay sanction fees too. There's no reason that those fees can't be put towards improving youth programs. Where are you drawing your information that "All" and "the majority" of your dues are being put towards youth programs?



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kidlost2000

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Re: How do you rate the USBC?
« Reply #7 on: July 15, 2009, 10:18:05 AM »
I'm glad to see money going to youth programs and that youth and high school bowling is growing. That is extremely important.

I don't think that is where a lot of our money is going. I think alot of it is wasted. This started off another thread about USBC awards or the lack of them.
The fact  they keep cutting back on awards. Especially on some awards that they rarely give out. Which are patches no less.

I would like to see USBC maybe do an audit and give the members an idea of where the money goes.

It will never happen but it would be interesting.
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Re: How do you rate the USBC?
« Reply #8 on: July 15, 2009, 08:14:22 PM »
I hate them. I missed when men were men and women were women. Now liberals took over and we all are the same. I missed ABC and WBIC. The merger was one of the worst things ever to happen to bowling.
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Re: How do you rate the USBC?
« Reply #9 on: July 16, 2009, 04:48:13 PM »
usbc is a F'n joke!!!   P E R I O D
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Re: How do you rate the USBC?
« Reply #10 on: July 16, 2009, 05:06:29 PM »
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kidlost2000

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Re: How do you rate the USBC?
« Reply #11 on: July 16, 2009, 05:09:26 PM »
Our local level voted not to merge. Glad they did.
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Re: How do you rate the USBC?
« Reply #12 on: July 17, 2009, 05:18:00 PM »
There were a number of reasons the USBC was formed: primary to combine costs and cut down on the "waste" members complain about - both from the standpoint of economy of scale as well as reduction of shared costs. Also, to help establish bowling as an Olympic sport. The International Olympic committee requires a single governing body, which did not exist for bowling in the United States before the USBC.

I can see how, depending on participation numbers, it might be wiser for the local associations to keep things separate, especially if the local association sponsors and runs an above average number of tournaments. Nationally, it makes more business sense to combine for the reasons stated above.

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Re: How do you rate the USBC?
« Reply #13 on: July 17, 2009, 06:58:07 PM »
haha...glasses? I was referring to separate entities for genders in our sport. I personally liked how it was before. It also made league more simpler with mixed gender and non mixed gender leagues. Now, you are not allowed to have a league where it is only men or women or better case in one of my leagues where you had to have a team with at least one member of the opposite sex on your team or a vacant. Since this was brought up a couple years ago, it doesn't matter what a league wants to do because no one is allowed to be discriminated against. Now it may have been a cost saving merger and that may have been the case and may not have but it certainly brought issues with genders on leagues and tournaments. Personally, I don't care. I think our leagues are better this way. To be honest, it's tough to create leagues like this. But I'd like to see the cost savings with sanction fees going up all the time and wondering why USBC needs to be as big as they are. I can't even get an award for a 700 series if I average over 210 but if you average low, the more awards you get. Again, this is something a liberal came up with. "Everyone wins bullcrap".
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Re: How do you rate the USBC?
« Reply #14 on: July 17, 2009, 07:01:08 PM »
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haha...glasses?


I'm glad you saw the humor I intended

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