Originally posted by Paul Smith
Connie, going after the pool operators is a great idea and one that we can all benefit from......geek see "big ideas"!
Its very sad that in our sport we basially roll over when pool closures occure or practice times get cut. Try and do that with a soccer field and you'd have every mom for 100 miles screaming and throwing things and end up getting two more fields built and nightime lighting installed!
We did not roll over, we fought hard, we worked the media, we worked the lap swimmers, we did everything we did, were at every park district meeting, but the almight dollar of a water park won out. We had the U of I coach talk to them about how to market a competition pool so it would make money, everything, but water park was on their minds and water park is what we will have.
Originally posted by Paul Smith
Connie, going after the pool operators is a great idea and one that we can all benefit from......geek see "big ideas"!
Its very sad that in our sport we basially roll over when pool closures occure or practice times get cut. Try and do that with a soccer field and you'd have every mom for 100 miles screaming and throwing things and end up getting two more fields built and nightime lighting installed!
We did not roll over, we fought hard, we worked the media, we worked the lap swimmers, we did everything we did, were at every park district meeting, but the almight dollar of a water park won out. We had the U of I coach talk to them about how to market a competition pool so it would make money, everything, but water park was on their minds and water park is what we will have.
