Quote from: jman76 on January 29, 2016, 08:30:50 AM

I'm just curious as to why you bowl in USBC Sanctioned Leagues/Tournaments if you hate them so much and think that they are doing a horrible job? I mean why pay for something that you are so passionately against? I sure as hell would not pay anyone that I disagreed so much with.

They do it because as long as USBC is around, they'll have a scapegoat for everything that is wrong with the sport, and they'll maintain the ability to feel smarter than/superior to all of the people they deem to be idiots for supporting the organization.

I love the sport and feel supporting mediocrity rather that striving for excellence is unacceptable. I can only hope our delegates are more inquisitive than you and demand transparency/accountability from those leading our great sport rather doing the same thing and expecting a different result.

jman...I ask the same thing and on top of that, in a different thread, 12 admits he uses the USBC online average stuff (or will use it when he runs a tourney) because it is available. Nothing like talking out of both sides of your mouth. Use the resource but yet complain about them.

The complainers about the extra money still want to say without a doubt the management is the problem. Forget everything else, 100% management issue. Not weather, digital revolution, sputtering economy, increase in price of equipment and $ to replace said equipment, increased cost of centers for rising energy costs passed on to bowlers in the form of lineage or open play prices, shift away from traditional work hours, and the list goes on and on, and yet none of those items anyone with any budget could stop of change. But yet it is still management fault.

OK everyone, here's the lesson of the day (write this down as you heard it here FIRST ):

The best way to show your displeasure, "hold them accountable" as well as "stand on principle", is to do it with your wallet.

It is most certainly what I would do if I were on a crusade (or at least as pissed as some have demonstrated) against a business and its practices.

I stand with the majority in this thread.  Now I'm done.

Nice quote. Now, why don't you deliver that to Springfield, Illinois and tell the Governor and state legislature to knock off the fighting because each or being UNREASONABLE. No problem, we pass bills to pay lottery winners but tell the college kids needing grant money to pay for schooling that they have to wait. So either schools have to take it on the chin and work with the students until Illinois works this out or the kids have to come up with $$ or the students stop going to school.

But hey, win $25,000 on a scratch off and our state (Illinois) will pay you today.

Not unreasonable at all

In other words, being unreasonable may work sometime, but in other cases, there is a clear indication that being unreasonable does more harm.