DannyG
12-10-2002, 06:48 PM
tried to stay out of this one, but...
"The one thing that ice hockey has that roller hockey will never have is the ability to stop and turn on a dime." (from one of the divergent sub-threads in another forum)
I sincerely respect your other viewpoints expressed in your recent posts, but the above? What level of play have you been watching?
I have seen local through national, california to florida, and everywhere you look, there are players who can stop on a dime and leave fifteen cents change...instantaneously, miraculously, fabulously, or with any other adjectives you want...
on the larger issue...eventually, as soccer has done over the past 14 years (NOT the old NASL or MISL), regional leagues will start it, then a national confederation, then a "partialling out" of territories to a major league (in soccer's case, the MLS) and the top semi-pro league (the A-League).
This same progression will occur in inline hockey, as someone noted earlier, when a certain level of money (in ownership) guarantees staying power enough to work the development curve.
Any delay in this progress of the game to the professional level will be financial and organizational. Don't worry about the game...the game will sell itself, just like ice hockey does, the money/organization just needs to evolve...
that's enough, thanks for listening...
"The one thing that ice hockey has that roller hockey will never have is the ability to stop and turn on a dime." (from one of the divergent sub-threads in another forum)
I sincerely respect your other viewpoints expressed in your recent posts, but the above? What level of play have you been watching?
I have seen local through national, california to florida, and everywhere you look, there are players who can stop on a dime and leave fifteen cents change...instantaneously, miraculously, fabulously, or with any other adjectives you want...
on the larger issue...eventually, as soccer has done over the past 14 years (NOT the old NASL or MISL), regional leagues will start it, then a national confederation, then a "partialling out" of territories to a major league (in soccer's case, the MLS) and the top semi-pro league (the A-League).
This same progression will occur in inline hockey, as someone noted earlier, when a certain level of money (in ownership) guarantees staying power enough to work the development curve.
Any delay in this progress of the game to the professional level will be financial and organizational. Don't worry about the game...the game will sell itself, just like ice hockey does, the money/organization just needs to evolve...
that's enough, thanks for listening...