Thursday, April 7, 2011

An Update to Saturday's Post

We're learning more about the specifics of the Nebraska USBC meeting where our proposal was to be voted on.

It turns out that there was an individual upset that we would have the nerve to ask a bowling organization for help moving forward on an effort that the national organization these people are supposed to represent thinks is important. All that upset caused our request to go to the finance committee instead of being voted on at the time of our presentation. Okay, the extra research is a sound idea, so three members of the board attended the State Championships back in February.

They must have liked what they saw, because they stayed for nearly all of the Sunday final matches. So, fast forward to their next meeting on March 26, and guess what? No quorum. Not enough people attended the meeting to officially call the meeting to order.

The board will try again on July 30. Hopefully this time there will be enough people able to attend the meeting.

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Sometimes You Just Have to Laugh

We're working on some pretty cool ideas to help get bowling the NSAA-reconition we've been working toward all these years. As is sometimes the case when we are taking a few steps forward, we hear about a comment or an action that gets taken which momentarily catches us off guard.

It may come as a surprise to the readers of this little blog, but the effort to get bowling through the NSAA process, along with administering a state-wide program like we have, costs money. John, Les, Steve, Larry, and I give our time for this, because it's going to be great for the sport of bowling. Every year, the State Championships are run flawlessly by a large group of volunteers who enjoy the event and believe in what we're trying to accomplish.

The things that cost are the scholarships, the District and State bowling lineage, the NET telecast, the market research and web re-design we've had done, and other typical expenses like meals, mileage, and lodging for the trips we've taken across the state to promote the cause.

We are blessed to have tremendous financial support from the Nebraska State Bowling Proprietors, the Alan & Marcia Baer Foundation, the Lincoln Bowling Association, along with the thousands of people who have purchased merchandise or paid for admission into District and State competition.

We recently asked the Nebraska USBC for financial support to put forward our most aggressive plan to date to achieve NSAA recognition. The process was moving along just fine until it got derailed by more of the garbage that we thought had stopped getting slung around about our efforts.

The latest load of rubbish comes from a person in Omaha that should know better. Simply put, two of our members, John and Steve, have been accused of using high school bowling as a ticket to financial freedom! Getting rich off high school bowling? Are you kidding me?

John and Steve will probably address this nonsense with facts at some point in the future. And, as it usually is when the facts rear their head, the people spreading the nonsense tend to fade away.

More on this as the story unfolds. It will end well, an we'll probably look back and laugh.