Re: Research Project

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (crayon) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> 
> Ultimate's success in the American mainstream market would not be
> conditional upon participant numbers in the short-term; billiards and
> fishing by themselves count more participants than the National
> Basketball Association. The difference is the culture surrounding the
> two groups of sports: watercooler talk, media praise, adoration, and
> coverage, college money, sponsorship on an economically significant
> level, et cetera. If our participant numbers reach the hundreds of
> thousands, college teams recruit ceaselessly, and every city in
> America has an active league, Ultimate will still only get a nod to
> the side by media outlets and mass venues, if that, at least for a
> time. Of course, if participation in Ultimate reaches numbers that are
> just silly, one of the more accepted sports will be pushed aside into
> history and Ultimate will take over, but that will take time and
> numbers that we don't have.
> 

A very well thought out response in my opinion.