If the UBA is all about what I saw on the video on their homepage, then no thanks.

it's not for everyone. But the membership is growing, rapidly. Storm is an official sponsor and has created a team. Many PBA bowlers are apart of the UBA as well. It's all on house shot also. Trash talking, bowling and money. But let me be the first to say, you don't have to talk the talk when you bowl in the uba. But the team atmosphere is unlike any other in bowling. Trust me on that.

Its my ball and Im taking it home! Thats what you sound like.

12XSECH - Welcome to my ignore list.  --  JohnP

At what point does membership stop supporting a broken system that's been ineffective for decades. Fix the system and bring some accountability to the good old boys at the BPAA/USBC that have been abusing the system for years. I fully realize that the board of directors and BPAA/USBC leadership don't care what we want because they think they know best, but take a look at the membership decline over the last two decades and let me know how that's been working so far.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result...I for one have seen enough of the same thing, I'm ready for change.

Whining about what the USBC does and does not do for you means you should get out there and be heard 12XSECH... Help grow the sport or not.. But being behind a keyboard isn't helping your cause

Let us not forget the move to Texas, which was totally necessary.  How much did that cost us again?

Bingo. Not to add building the training center in Arlington that cost millions where they could have done something with Kegel instead for a fraction of the cost.

Not to mention how many women's tours have been started up (and failed) on the members dime?

Look, I wouldn't mind a price increase for dues if I had any confidence in the USBC on improving the sport, not totally destroying it with inept decision making.

I've read the discussion boards on Facebook and it seems like the top .5% believe that they are entitled to milk the system dry. Guess what. If the USBC goes away, along with Nationals, that is a cash cow for them that also goes away because instead of thinking long term....they just want to get theirs today.

Last I checked, the average USBC is still 170-something. In order to even start attempting to fix the perception of what a lot of people think about the organization, you have to get the average bowler back on board.

Why define an intellectual discussion, for the most part, as "whining." It is one thing if one chooses to give away 5 bucks, another thing if one is being hoodwinked out of 5 bucks.

Whether it was 5 bucks or 5 cents, if we are going to be charged, we have a right to know what we are paying for.

Now how is that whining?

Are people seriously whining about 5$? How much do you spend in Alcohol at a bowling alley during league? Have on less drink on one night and you got your 5$

So every penny you spend of every paycheck, every cent of taxes, you know where all of that actually goes? I find that hard to believe.