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Ben Cooper:
1) increase the number of players league-wide, especially women
2) improve individual players’ experience once within the league
3) engender cooperation amongst the league and Chicago’s various club teams
-women’s only leagues in the spring, perhaps with a beginner/advanced split, in addition to the current framework
-more summer league choices of gender splits and skill levels
-more cooperation between the league and clubs on matters of field space, clinics, player recruitment, club player captaining/participation on league teams, etc…
-a message board that more fully involves the larger ultimate community for discussing pickup, club scrimmages, contacts, lunchtime throwing sessions, etc…
Mike Gwinn:
-Winter league.
-Work with the Park District to get a dedicated lined Ultimate field(s), preferably with lights.
-Develop an improved captain system, that trades waived fees for participation in captain clinics focusing on basic teaching skills for Thursday and Spring/Simpsons and more advanced defense and offense for the other leagues.
Mike Mackenzie:
One of my personal goals would be to more fully integrate the youth and club programs into the UC's structure.
Mark Olivo:
My name is Mark Olivo and I have 10 years of accounting and tax experience to which I can assist UC with annual filings and other financial obligations.
Joe Owens-Ream:
I am glad that it will remain on the same day as regular cusl - everybody at Piece together!
It isn't less spirited to hold people to a stricter version of the rules because their more experienced, it's just a higher level of play with finer distinctions in the calls that should or often shouldn't be made.
Rick Russell:
I am a thirty year old, married man who when not being an attorney or playing frisbee can be found walking with his wife and dog in bucktown.
The breadth and depth of my experience allows me to understand some of the unique issues facing niche constituencies of CUSL. For example the club player looking to have some fun on the side to the older guy using league as his competitive outlet.
The community at large can only face these problems and others if the membership is collectively involved in finding solutions in an early and organized fashion. I will push for a format change to the BYOT system a la Boston and Madison. Such a system best facilitates the goals of growing the league and increasing participation of people who have not already played and increasing retention of female players. Tiered systems for leagues have there place in certain situations and I am withholding further judgement until the end of the upcoming summerleague season. Overall, league games should start on time, happen at the place they are suppose to and follow a uniform set of rules.
Raymond Yang:
• A winter league located closer to the city. Although there is currently indoor winter pickup, it is located in the suburbs and difficult for many players to participate in. There are indoor soccer locations within the city where the possibility exists for an indoor winter ultimate league, providing year-round opportunities to play. Many other cities already have indoor leagues, and Chicago would definitely benefit from one.
• Refocusing the mission of Ultimate Chicago. There are several constituencies that it seems the board should serve (club ultimate players, serious league players, recreational players, etc.) and often times it seems that the Board is pulled in different direction trying to meet the varying needs of these groups. Sitting down and redefining the focus of the board, with feedback from these communities, will help it better serve Ultimate Chicago.
A curmudgeon's reputation for malevolence is undeserved. They're neither warped nor evil at heart. They don't hate mankind, just mankind's absurdities. They're just as sensitive and soft-hearted as the next guy, but they hide their vulnerability beneath a crust of misanthropy. They ease the pain by turning hurt into humor. . . . . . They attack maudlinism because it devalues genuine sentiment. . . . . . Nature, having failed to equip them with a servicable denial mechanism, has endowed them with astute perception and sly wit.
Curmudgeons are mockers and debunkers whose bitterness is a symptom rather than a disease. They can't compromise their standards and can't manage the suspension of disbelief necessary for feigned cheerfulness. Their awareness is a curse.
Perhaps curmudgeons have gotten a bad rap in the same way that the messenger is blamed for the message: They have the temerity to comment on the human condition without apology. They not only refuse to applaud mediocrity, they howl it down with morose glee. Their versions of the truth unsettle us, and we hold it against them, even though they soften it with humor.
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