The open practice at BC is also a cash cow and something that shouldn't be given up easily as you have something that works and everyone wants, but you're giving it up to run 25 class race days and a 30 race schedule that will be "different" than all of the other organizations that have been running 25 moto race days and 30 races that count for points too....... so maybe these people that spend a lot of time on a tractor sucking diesel fumes for the love of motocross are getting side effects that we don't all know about yet, the side effect being that they go and make bad business decisions to give away their money that they worked so hard to make in the first place.
But you can make fun of me for thinking out loud on this forum of opinions that the Coombs don't want to give up the $ from a National that they control. And since I said this in that post you are referring to ----- "I'd still be surprised if they let one go unless as the head of the NPG, they are getting kickbacks with zero work....... then that makes total sense." And if you read between the lines in Creekside's post, "The COOMBS are involved and yes Steel City is off the schedule". So if the COOMBS are replacing one cash cow race with another cash cow race at a new venue, they are still controlling 2 events, which is why they started the NPG in the first place, to protect their big dollar events (2 of them) from getting knocked off the National MX schedule and continuing to collect lots of dollars from running events. They needed to protect High Point when the AMA wanted to get rid of High Point so they started the NPG to band the promoters together against the AMA. Now the NPG has the power, and not the AMA, and guess who's in charge of the NPG. You guessed Mr 8 year promoter, the Coombs family. So as I stated earlier, it is hard to imagine the COOMBS giving up a cash cow unless they can be rewarded with another one, maybe one that someone else runs but funnels back most of the profits to the Coombs for getting them in the Good Old Boy group of tracks and promoters. Creekside's post seems to indicate exactly that, the Coombs are involved in the venture and will close Steel City to open up Indiana for themselves and not someone totally new to the NPG Group. That does make total sense. Move to a place that wants one, less land/neighbor issues to worry about since Steel City area has built up into an area where MX tracks are not accepted by the neighborhoods close by, and be in control of it still so that you get to keep raking in the cash for a national mx race.
Now, maybe I should go back to that other post and answer your question about being a senior in college or the 8th grade....... just a thought.
Or I can wait and see what happens with the nationals and see who's in charge of the new ones.
BTW, I do hope that OMA succeeds in some way and the events are good and bring back good racing to Ohio. Reinventing the wheel looks a lot more like the same wheel with a new name after a lot of info has been released and while I wish you guys well with the venture, I won't be running 30 races next year because of the new organization. I'll do a few, but not much more than that..... honestly.
