Is there an echo in the room
Quote: It has occured to me lately though that we are really selling ourselves short, but more importantantly, we are really hurting the guys at the top of the game that are trying to make a living at this game. If companies can get as many of us cheap laborers as they want, whats their incentive to pay an angler at the top his due? It must be very frustrating for the career minded Pro's.
Not sure if theres an answer to this or not, but it needs attention. Maybe we need some kind of Players Union like in other Pro Sports."
LOL Where have I heard this statement before?
The fact is, when the MWC was formed, the anglers were mis-led and nothing has changed. Both sides of the ledger should have known /foreseen the obvious failure to come down the road. No where in the business world or major sports has anything like competitive fishing as a template for success, worked in the long run. In marketing and or compensation plans for all parties involved--no where.
About 3-4 guys pleaded with anglers since the beginning to change this setting and most said we were nuts. I told one veteran pro angler just the other day, who thought we were nuts years back, "now you're starting to sound like Fellegy!"
Will it ever change? I am confident, when we get non-endemic $$ as the major marketing player in the sport, they will be sharp enough, unlike the marketing genius's within the tackle and marine industry over the past 25 years, to make sure the anglers do well enough to put on a good show, consistently. Simply...they understand. It's the "NASCAR Way"((a good book).
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Steve Fellegy #49
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter. MLK
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