Wednesday, July 08, 2009
I'm incredibly glad that Degs wrote that throwback article harking back to the days when things as pedestrian as loose tournament organization were a treat, rather than an expectation. I distinctly remember going to Easterns back when Mike Gerics was at the helm, and wondering who this dude was patrolling all the fields in the morning yelling and threatening to start assessing points if the game didn't start that instant.
"Dude's got a stick up his ass" might have been along the lines of what I was thinking as I saw him get red-faced, but by tourney's end there was no doubt that he held everything down and that, compared to other tournaments being run at the time, he was worlds above the rest in organization and professionalism. By way of example as to what was happening elsewhere, nine Madison dudes once showed up to a Easy Coast tourney on our way back home from spring break and picked up, as a team, at the tourney, half an hour before it began. Those were the days, for better or worse.
Since then we as a group have gotten our shit together a bit better (with still room for improvement) and tournament games start on time and expectations are clearly stated.
So why the hell is it that, three days before Hoosier Hodown, there is zero information up on their website, or on the UPA's tourney page, about what teams are going and what the format is? It's Wednesday. They already have a skeletal page constructed for the tournament. It would literally take 5 minutes for someone to go and type in, at minimum, the names of the attending teams. Or 20 minutes to go to the UPA's tourney page and plug in the format without team names.
But, c'mon. It's 2009. We as a group should be beyond this. I know that organizing a tournament is hard work, and delegation, and many small details aside, but at minimum post online for the few who care what teams will be playing. It's similar to the tree falling in the woods; if there's nothing online to begin planning, hype, and talking points, why would anyone care what the hell happened?
I don't think that is too much to ask.
3 comments:
welcome to women's score reporting
and just how do you think mike g got worlds above the rest in organization and professionalism.......he learned from the master, thats how.
So ultimate is either a goofy sport played with a goofy object disrespected by the rest of the sporting world yet beloved by its participants. OR, it's a discipline involving hours of commitment each week, training on field and off and rewarded with coveted titles and moments in the limelight. Except the entire infrastructure seems to be denying the former and incapable of achieving the latter. The result: Plenty of self importance, but little of consequence actually happening. Get it together or don't, but the dual personalities are no less funny than the spoof on ulty's early days.
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