There probably is some fear of my niche becoming popular, but my premise is, I don't think the fear of that is really very real. You indeed made a point and I put it in bold. You have reinforced your point again...bold again.
My post was designed to stimulate discussion on how the your future game might look. Not really to attack you in some perceived way. Your hyperbole was probably not useful.
You didn't argue that point. You argued the point you made up, which I was not making. Your statement was: I'm sorry Chris, I can't agree. I don't care if disc golf is given national exposure.
I don't think it makes the game interesting enough to watch for an average sports fan, and nowhere near interesting enough for the average non-sports fan.
Nowhere did I make that point, nowhere was I even thinking about that point. If you disagree with the point you chose to bold in your post (not referring to my bolding here)... well... cool, I wish you'd have actually decided to talk about that. If you disagree that we should be trying to push the sport to the talking heads at a time when their network's participation gives them a reason to have the discussion - well I'd like to hear when you think we
should be pushing them to talk about it?
The story told, at the end of a 3 hour+ live broadcast was exciting....to me, as a disc golfer. I am not convinced you get non disc golfers to follow the broadcast for that long. I would be fine with being wrong, but that is why I made a post. I do care about your opinion and anyone else.
Well then: its a good thing that it appears it will be released for digestion in a format similar to our next-day post-edit coverage. We're not convincing people to sit back and listen to Nate, Terry, Val, and the other dude for 4 hours on a Sunday afternoon. It sounds like 1 hour at a time over some days. Disc golf can certainly tell a gripping story using basic elements of competition and human interest like something like Sasuke, which went from niche to Ninja Warrior in a decade.
In the intended vein of my post. Who do you envisions putting in courses, maintaining courses, putting on lots more tournaments and leagues for the legions of new amateur players?
The same people that are now. No "legions" are going to grow over night. As the sport grows through time, the successful communities will grow their local infrastructure.
And more importantly what do you see as the endgame of your proposed media outreach? Is your desire to funnel money to the top tier pro game?
My goal is to see the pie get bigger. My goal is to see the basement floor raised. My goal is more visibility. More parks & rec people seeing 'disc golf' in the periphery of their existence more often leading to a feel that more courses are needed. More local business leaders seeing 'disc golf' in the periphery of their existence more often leading to a feel that they can advertise and get a return on investment sponsoring events or holes. More kids seeing disc golfers on TVs, leading to more of those kids on the athletic-edges picking this sport over some others like Paul once did. More kids in general means more increasingly formalized high school competition, more recruits at the college level.
My goal is all of the little things that come from increased exposure. And sure - more money in the sport is gonna mean some more money funneled into the top tier events. Eyeballs mean money means sponsorship for the Disc Golf Pro Tour.
I have no delusions about one little twitter campaign. But I do recognize that we must continually take advantage of opportunities as they present themselves to continue to build momentum. That includes some of us as fans pushing hard.
