<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Mick D @ Sep 13 2009, 03:30 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>So if the manufacturers can play nice in the sandbox with GP, WSBK, BSB, and CEV, whose fault is it when the manus and the AMA can't play nice?
I don't know R O'R from a hole in the ground yet it seems obvious that he is not a man who is more concerned with schedules than anything else... he was pointing to the scheduling issues as a symptom of a deeper and much more insidious disease within the AMA/DMG entity.
Maybe its intelligence, though I doubt it. Poor management, the bane of the AMA for over a decade, can be wrought by smart people as evidenced by RE (by no means a stupid man) and DMG.
Running a successful national series is not rocket science - look at the first class job done in Aus., population 20 million, by "a bunch of semi-educated wrench monkeys who fight amongst themselves at the drop of a hat like feuding hillbillies"
. Australia's group of militant wrench monkeys, club racers, and aging hipster businessmen are a professional outfit...
The AMA had management problems long before DMG showed up. The problem with the AMA is that the main participants are mercantilists who hoard resources. It's normal behavior in motorsports, but at some point, hoarding resources actually makes you relatively worse off. Yosh Suzuki have skirted rules, hoarded wins, hoarded personnel, and hoarded sponsorship money. Over the last half decade there has been significantly less to go around for everyone. The manufacturers needed to cut costs and improve parity, but the AMA was so impotent that it couldn't get the manufacturers to agree to anything. After the manufacturers had their advertising budgets pulled, they scrambled in a panicked fashion to hire a company (DMG) who would promote a sport that had been ruined by a miserable organizational culture.
They say Rossi is a brilliant champion because he has the ability to prioritize problems and solve them in a sequential fashion according to their importance. Here were the problems with the AMA going into this season:
1. Miniscule team funding and sponsorship
2. Exorbidant racing costs
3. Unsafe venues that are not located near major population centers
4. Poor entertainment value (on track action)
5. High barriers to entry (no privateers)
6. No live TV coverage
7. Poor attendance
8. Bad series promotion
How do Reg O'Rourke and John Ulrich judge DMG's progress? By the inconsitent scheduling and by whether or not they use Constitutional law as a foundation for the AMA rulebook.
It's not fair to claim that the AMA is full of semi-educated wrench monkeys because a good number of them are hardworking people who enjoy their craft regardless of the interpersonal conflicts amongst the decision-making executives. Unfortunately, these people are overshadowed by the chronically butt-hurt primadonnas who always get a mic shoved in their face.
I don't know R O'R from a hole in the ground yet it seems obvious that he is not a man who is more concerned with schedules than anything else... he was pointing to the scheduling issues as a symptom of a deeper and much more insidious disease within the AMA/DMG entity.
Maybe its intelligence, though I doubt it. Poor management, the bane of the AMA for over a decade, can be wrought by smart people as evidenced by RE (by no means a stupid man) and DMG.
Running a successful national series is not rocket science - look at the first class job done in Aus., population 20 million, by "a bunch of semi-educated wrench monkeys who fight amongst themselves at the drop of a hat like feuding hillbillies"
The AMA had management problems long before DMG showed up. The problem with the AMA is that the main participants are mercantilists who hoard resources. It's normal behavior in motorsports, but at some point, hoarding resources actually makes you relatively worse off. Yosh Suzuki have skirted rules, hoarded wins, hoarded personnel, and hoarded sponsorship money. Over the last half decade there has been significantly less to go around for everyone. The manufacturers needed to cut costs and improve parity, but the AMA was so impotent that it couldn't get the manufacturers to agree to anything. After the manufacturers had their advertising budgets pulled, they scrambled in a panicked fashion to hire a company (DMG) who would promote a sport that had been ruined by a miserable organizational culture.
They say Rossi is a brilliant champion because he has the ability to prioritize problems and solve them in a sequential fashion according to their importance. Here were the problems with the AMA going into this season:
1. Miniscule team funding and sponsorship
2. Exorbidant racing costs
3. Unsafe venues that are not located near major population centers
4. Poor entertainment value (on track action)
5. High barriers to entry (no privateers)
6. No live TV coverage
7. Poor attendance
8. Bad series promotion
How do Reg O'Rourke and John Ulrich judge DMG's progress? By the inconsitent scheduling and by whether or not they use Constitutional law as a foundation for the AMA rulebook.
It's not fair to claim that the AMA is full of semi-educated wrench monkeys because a good number of them are hardworking people who enjoy their craft regardless of the interpersonal conflicts amongst the decision-making executives. Unfortunately, these people are overshadowed by the chronically butt-hurt primadonnas who always get a mic shoved in their face.
