Coaches that sit on the fence
 

WHAT WOULD IT TAKE FOR THESE COACHES TO JOIN A LEAGUE ???
This goes out to coaches that do not want to play in a league .
Why do you not want to join a league ?
What if I could tell you that you can play in a league where there is no cheating and the fun of the game is placed above winning .
Where there is a feeling of family among league mates .

I am just wondering why some coaches do not want to join leagues . I know I collected for years and only played solitaire , then I discovered Aaron Johnson and the C.O.E.F.L. and never looked back !

Alright enough of the mushy stuff.
FRANK,,BLACK SUNDAY IS COMING FOR YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:fghttt: :fghttt: :fghttt: :fghttt:

thmbsp$ I was sitting around just collecting stuff and never used it. Untill now! Jeff, Nico and I are going to get our two games in this weekend. That will make 7 for me. Ill be half way there! I have spoken to others about The Mid-Ohio and alot have the same response. No time. We can play everyone in our division twice. You can get all your games in just from your division. That would be three maybe four meetings in a season.

What about those of us that "Want" to play in a league? Poor Tom and I have to travel somewhere to play in a league. Kinda sucks that there is no committment in Minnesota, besides Tom and I.

Travel + Time
 

Even now, it always comes down to time. I can always set aside a couple hours for just about anything (movie, going to the store, watching a game), but to set aside a whole day (packing up, driving a couple hundred miles, playing games) is really difficult.

I think that if more people had in-town leagues they would have no problem joining. That's the hard part though.

If I had at least 5 other guys here in Dayton, OH, I would be able to play a whole season in about a month.thmbsp$

DR

if you think you have no time now, wait til the baby lffng$ lffng$ lffng$
you will be known as Roller, the coach that formerly frequented the M.F.C.A. chatboard

yeah that would stink.
There are 4-5 coaches around Columbus that do not want to play in a league or maybe they do not have the time , teams, bases to be competitive , or something else , or maybe it is our league itself .
I know when I was first invited over to AJ's house to watch them play a game , I was the only white guy in the room of 8-10 coaches. They { C.O.E.F.L. league } treated me like family . It was about playing the game and having fun .
We as a league { now MID- OHIO } try to do the same for every coach, because I remember what it was like to be the new guy .

Speaking on behalf of the new guys, Im glad I joined your league. You guys do everything possible to make it fun and competitive. I am hoping to recruite two more players for next year. They are in The New Castle Area. As a matter of fact they are in my neighborhood. My brother-in law and a friend of mine. We shall see. My brother-in-law loves Joe's Lions! :hmmmmm:

It is many reasons.
 

league play.

There are so many different reasons per individual.

1)cost and travel is the biggest one. it cost alot of money to play in another city than your own. Some coaches like different styles which may not be offered close to where they live. So either they sit it out and just collect figures, or play solitaire. You may lover a league but is it worth it to travel and spend maybe $500 to play on a weekend. A coach may just stay home and buy a watts board with that money. or a team detailed by a master.
i think every coaches dream is to play in there own backyard with a rule set they love, with coaches who have the same passion. It's like when you went out to play basketball or baseball with the same group of guys all the time when you were younger.
I thought there was going to be an east division for the mid ohio league this year but i have not heard from anyone. I did not plan on going to beaver falls and now columbus. i going because i love the rules and coaches. Also, i wanted to play at least 8 to 9 games and uphold alot of my sked.

mantaraydre

The hobby...
 

is categorized in many levels. I have always said that there are...

Coaches/Players - People who enjoy the hobby by playing
Ambassadors - People who enjoy promoting the hobby and growing it
Collectors/Historians - People who stick their value in the history of the game
Artist (Painters/Customizers/Engineers) - The people who give the hobby life and have transported it into the 21st century.

We need all of them to survive but all of them aren't players and some of them fall into many if not all of the categories.

In most major league sports regardless of which one...the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL you have all of these same sub categories.

More often than not the owners of these franchises have never played a single minute of the sport but they understand how to run a business. So I appreciate all of the individuals that don't play the game but have found tremendous value in the hobby in other areas.

The term 'league' is a turn off for some. (same problem with Subbuteo)

We have taken the term league out of everything we do and advertise it as a social club, that does have a league aspect if players so wish to participate.