Re: Research Project

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robin Bauer) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...

First of all, welcome back from the dead, Robin.

> Many changes are needed:
> 
> 1 - name change, ULTIMATE just won't cut it.  It is a very lame name
> for our great sport
> 2 - refs are needed, a mainstream sport without refs just won't work.
> 3 - need to speed up the game.  I am not very familiar with the
> college rules but it sounds like they do good job of eliminating
> downtime.

I could live with these changes, I mean if some marketing gurus and
experts determined this would work.

> 4 - make Zond D illegal.  Reason being - it slows down the game and is
> usually very boring to watch.  Thus it should be banned.

Is soccer boring?  Golf?  What makes boring.... boring?  If it's the
basketball/football crowd you're trying to attract, then maybe zone is
boring, I don't know.  But zone D is just an organized form of
poaching, more or less.  How would you regulate poaching and when
would it be considered a zone?  That would seem difficult to separate,
because you don't want all poaching do be illegal (do you?), yet too
much of it may fit into a definition of zone.


> >          3) What kind of influence would major sports fans bring?
> 
> don't think they'd bring influence, they would just have to become
> educated.

I think major sports fans would bring people from different
backgrounds in who want to play.