2008 Convention

To Mr. stirs the pot with a keyboard, I’m not sure if you had the opportunity to meet Rob Butcher at nationals, but if you did, you would realize that he is not a figure head. While we may not be the most nimble organization, we are most definitely changing. If you read Rob’s vision statement you will notice we are moving rapidly to a new and improved USMS. Next week, we’ll find out if our House of Delegates supports the board and Rob in making these improvements a reality. I'll take that "stirs the pot" thing as a compliment! I did briefly meet Rob and he seems like a nice guy (needs to switch out the Comminhs style speedo brief for a real suit)....which has absolutely nothing to do with what I'm asking/suggesting...and no one is answering. For the VERY large group of readers/posters on these forums I'd love for someone to give a shot at explaining the process that takes place at USMS to try and incorporate ANY of the great things Rob put out in the "mission statement"? Start with the basic (I consider ridiculous) format that certain types of legislation can only be introduced every other year...? So some of these great ideas will get tossed into a committee with (tell me again how many members make up each committee) a bunch of generally well intentioned folks who will trade emails/conference calls (maybe meet at nationals) leading up to September 2009 when (again correct me if I'm wrong) they will present a proposal (say team scoring, or holding nationals anywhere except Puerto Rico...preferably Northern Cal) which the entire "body" then votes on...and if it doesn't pass we wait two more years. Again this is not about people not caring and working hard...its about a system that has outgrown itself and now "turns" like the titanic (IMHO). I wish the ED all the best and hope he is able to get some of these ideas into play. I will continue on my path of getting Michael & Michael-s blood pressure as high as possible and working my butt off to get more people training and competing thru my network of friends/teammates.

To Mr. stirs the pot with a keyboard, I’m not sure if you had the opportunity to meet Rob Butcher at nationals, but if you did, you would realize that he is not a figure head. While we may not be the most nimble organization, we are most definitely changing. If you read Rob’s vision statement you will notice we are moving rapidly to a new and improved USMS. Next week, we’ll find out if our House of Delegates supports the board and Rob in making these improvements a reality. I'll take that "stirs the pot" thing as a compliment! I did briefly meet Rob and he seems like a nice guy (needs to switch out the Comminhs style speedo brief for a real suit)....which has absolutely nothing to do with what I'm asking/suggesting...and no one is answering. For the VERY large group of readers/posters on these forums I'd love for someone to give a shot at explaining the process that takes place at USMS to try and incorporate ANY of the great things Rob put out in the "mission statement"? Start with the basic (I consider ridiculous) format that certain types of legislation can only be introduced every other year...? So some of these great ideas will get tossed into a committee with (tell me again how many members make up each committee) a bunch of generally well intentioned folks who will trade emails/conference calls (maybe meet at nationals) leading up to September 2009 when (again correct me if I'm wrong) they will present a proposal (say team scoring, or holding nationals anywhere except Puerto Rico...preferably Northern Cal) which the entire "body" then votes on...and if it doesn't pass we wait two more years. Again this is not about people not caring and working hard...its about a system that has outgrown itself and now "turns" like the titanic (IMHO). I wish the ED all the best and hope he is able to get some of these ideas into play. I will continue on my path of getting Michael & Michael-s blood pressure as high as possible and working my butt off to get more people training and competing thru my network of friends/teammates.