Here’s a link to and interesting article Bassfan.com conducted with BASS Icon Rick Clunn. He had some very pointed comments about the current product produced by ESPN and the direction it’s heading.
Here’s a quote from the article:
Quote:
Fishing’s the last vehicle remaining for the masses to stay sane.
Back in the old days, my dad and everybody talked about going fishing – how if they “don’t get away this weekend, they’re going to go crazy.” That wasn’t a cliché, that was a fact. Fishing’s the last vehicle for the masses to get away from rush-hour city traffic and all that.
Why do cities grow outward? Because people fight to get to the edges. The insanity is to the middle. The closer you are to the middle, the more insane you become. And if there’s no way to escape, we’re all going to go insane.
What I’m getting at is, let’s get people in there who can sell fishing from a different perspective than how they’re trying to sell it right now.
There’s great opportunity with the Internet that we’ve never had before, for example. I think the people at JM (Associates), and your people (at BassFan) recognize that power, but we’re still fighting the old school that wants to keep that ratings system sacred.
And with the Majors, (if they’re going away) here we go getting rid of a great model, instead of getting rid of rotten salespeople.
