Dicks carries a limited selection of bowling balls, maybe the USBC should approach them.
They might be willing to do something but there not going to stick there necks out the way Walmart did with FLW there is just not enough money or interest there. Are you really going to go let some 18 year old clerk punch the holes in your next ball? Would you recommend that to even a newbie?
Something needs to be done but I'm not sure what it is. Maybe have the ball manufactures get together and raise the prices $20 bucks per ball and use it to sponsor pba and local tournaments. Probably illegal collusion but it's the only piece of the current system that really works.
The cheap bastards in bowling cry over a $5 raise in USBC fees, raise the balls $20 and these guys will be calling Bankruptcy attorneys. I say raise the ball prices more than $20,I say $50 or $75, ball prices have remained relatively static for the past two decades, raise the prices, get that money back into the PBA for prize funds, good young players for the most part have no desire to go on tour, why would you when you have more earning potential being a desk jockey?
If you even think to respond to this with poppycock, don't. If you aren't offering up solutions, no matter how silly they may be, you are part of problem, not the solution.
