How is the current "leadership" any different than it was in the past? When I first came on the forums, I had a bunch of suggestions on how we should do things differently/better (run work wheel!), and was told to shut up unless I volunteered or did something to help. Sounds kinda like what Keehner said to me (and the responses I got were just as rude as his). Now Cole Trickle is an autocross VP
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This isn't a problem unique to THSCC. A lot of local clubs have staff and officers rapidly approaching burnout. We need people to help manage the big workload associated with running the club. Just like I was told when I first came on the forums, those who help out, their suggestions matter more. Expecting us to respond to unsolicited criticism is a bit unfair. Looking for a "commitment" from us to receive the blessing of people who don't come to our events and don't help is a bit misguided. We are just doing what we need to keep things running, and its a lot of work. We don't have bandwidth for "suggestions". There have been great "suggestions" about a redone website, a promotional video, business cards, a marketing campaign, a novice school survey, more "customer focused events", but until someone decides to do them, they won't happen. I don't mean to disparage those ideas or those who came up with them, a lot of them are really good ideas, but we just don't have the resources to pull them off. We need help. We need people like Carlton who decide "we need wireless timing results" AND THEN MAKE IT HAPPEN.
The FB thing, don't blame that on "LEADERSHIP", that was ME. I responded to multiple complaints from female members. I took it too far with my response post, and unintentionally created some odd divide between older members and younger members. There is no divde there. I LOVE the few connections we have to past membership in the autocross program, but the fact is, there aren't that many members around anymore from the early 2000's/late 90's. The participants in autocross events are newer blood these days. We'd love to see more of you come out, but it just doesn't happen. I bet if you took a poll at our events of "Who is Mike Dishman", less than 30% of participants there would even know who he is, and less than 15% have meet him. Steven, Shawn, Art, Rob L, Steve, Matt, I hope you all feel appreciated as long time members of the club who are still active autocrossers (and any of you I missed). I love seeing you at the events (Ryan H, I left you out on purpose, where you been?!).
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And while I think clique might be the right word, it is likely overly strong in that it can have a negative connotation if your definition includes exclusion, or at least purposeful exclusion. I believe the club has and always will have some level of cliques.
