Bowlings Future

When is the industry in particular going to realise that the youth is the future. Jr programs are put on the backshelf in the southeast. I coached Regular Jrs and Jr gold. Trying to get the house to schedule tournaments was a real pain. Birthday parties were more important. I like to see families have fun at the local center. I know the centers need the revenue. But, how many of you started as Jr bowlers. I worked to get High School and Middle School programs started and it was so frustrating. Not even at the club level could I and others get cooperation. Thats a shame. Not everyone can play football and basketball. The main thing seems to be budgets. Sometimes it is prejudice against the image of bowlers. You know the one I am talking about. Beer gut,swearing,cigar smoking ,idiots. We have to clean it the image. Hopefully,one day,things will get back to when we had two shifts of Jrs on saturday.