The lack of people wanting to enforce the rules and regulations is absolutely disgusting. I work in the financial field and we all know how well that turned out for investors in 2008. So, now that I am a Risk Manager at one firm and we have put into place specific controls that have cost the firm significant time and resources (profit) to make the bank up to date and meet or exceed all expectations, I am not supposed to look at competitors and if I or my company finds a competitor is NOT doing something right, I should look away? HECK NO. This is why the USA is where we are today....let's just look the other way instead of standing up and doing what's right.
And as for going over the speed limit....it is 100% illegal. Just because you do not get pulled over or it is possible the calibration of a device may be off a tick or 2 does not give you the right to arbitrarily set a new speed limit. I would love to hear you argue that in a court of law. Tell a judge, ya know, I know murder is illegal, but my wife called me XYZ, so because of that I am moving the goalposts and deciding it is ok for me to murder my wife based on this regardless of what the law says. Come on.
As for those who want the ball legal, I have thought this and possibly already written this, but if all the balls submitted to the USBC were legal, and yet in the public realm the ball is now illegal, something smells in Denmark. Bad. That tells me balls that were shipped to the USBC were under the .060 spec but balls shipped for public consumption were not. With that said, someone had to know WHICH balls to send to the USBC for testing. My guess is the USBC is probably ticked over that, thinking a company was trying to pull the wool over the USBC's eyes, more than the fact that yeah, the ball is slightly illegal. If your job at the USBC was to test balls to determine if the ball meets regulations, and you had tested every ball out of the Jackal line multiple times and every one came in with a diff under .060 and yet now, every ball you are getting from the public is over .060...something is amiss. Further, if you allow Motiv to keep drilled Jackals and Carnages in play, what message does that send to every other company? That says, hey, they got caught, but they were able to get a ball in public hands that exceeded regulations. We need to do that. There is little backlash from the USBC and if the USBC allows us to keep all balls out there, good to go.
Plus, you are forgetting something. Sure, if you want to grandfather a ball great. But you are only speaking for those that are in use/drilled right now. Problem is there are probably many sitting in a pro shop undrilled...possibly at a home undrilled if the person bought it off the internet...so how are we to police when the ball was drilled to be able to grandfather that one, but not the Jackals sitting at Ace Mitchell? That is the problem with allowing some in the market and not others from the same model. You have to be consistent and the USBC would have a nightmare on their hands trying to track who had a Jackal/Carnage drilled prior to March 15.
Finally, Motiv should absolutley pay for the new ball to be drilled. As a customer, the customer did nothing wrong. ZERO. And yet the customer is going to have to pay to have another ball drilled because Motiv wanted to push the envelope too close or whatever the issue is? No way, Motiv needs to reimburse drilling fees. I have already sent Motiv a message and clearly stated that if the company did not reimburse me for drilling on my 2 new balls that I receive to replace my Jackal and my Carnage, I would dump the rest of my Motiv equipment (including bags, shirts, etc) and would never touch a Motiv product again. I should not be penalized in ANY way because of the mistake Motiv made.
