Originally posted by BWillie
Geez - I bet you're shaking in your boots then aren't you Pete. Obviously with this logic in mind, you have to feel that if the December show DOES get the ratings "required", it would mean the end of the NPPL just the same. It must be unnerving knowing that you have put all your eggs in one basket and a single television show could mean the end to it all.
Actually, I don't agree with your forecast at all. If the ESPN show is a flop, I don't think it means an end to the NXL, but I guess it could. Regardless, even if the NXL folds, it CERTAINLY doesn't mean the end of PSP.
You can mark my words - regardless of the future of the NXL - there is still a very capable and willing section of influential people willing to keep PSP going.
And why do you continue to be so one-sided? You are far too intelligent to not see the problem with that. When was the last time you attended a PSP event? 3 years ago? Lots of things change. You may too. And I don't think you'd have to try very hard. You'd just have to stop trying so hard not to.
Come on Lane, I ain't got no axe to grind here mate, you run the PSP - I have nothing to do with the NPPL other than attend its events.
The only money I ever earn is from PGI, nobody back hands me, nobody commissions me and nobody asks me for favour and so on.
The PSP pays your wage, is it any wonder we have differeing views on the relative merits.
And, I don't really have to attend any PSP events (tho I do concede it would be better) to get a good idea of what it was like, I know many people and talk to many people who do..enough said I think.
And I CERTAINLY did not suggest there was anything certain about the demise of the PSP if the NXL did go belly up, I just observed there is a connection and a possible consequence and I asked a question, that's all mate !
As for distorting my logic and extending it to predict the demise of the NPPL if the NXL was successful, I don't think it would work that way at all.
I think the momentum the NPPL has now generated and the moves it now makes will carry it through, no matter what you guys do or not do.
But Lane, I do think if the NXL show flops, then the NXL will be no more because nobody frikkin cares about it anymore, just look at the relative audiences when there is a Div one game going on at the same time, look at the player base disenchantment over the last year.
The only thing in my opinion keeping the NXL alive is the prospect of that deal.
As for what the PSP would do in the wake of the NXL dying remains to be seen but my feeling would be that some of the PSP members who promote the events might think the profit tally at the end of the year when compared to the sheer aggravation and stress of putting on these events might well not seem too favourable.
In that case, perhaps Ren and Jerry may well go it alone again and Lane, you know as well as I do, it was really only those two events in past years that used to make any sort of money.
Certainly, Dave's didn't nor did Billy and Adam's and the fourth event in the series was always something of a no go zone when it came to making money.
Pete
PS say 'hi' to family for me !
Peace Lane
