Apologies for getting serious on you Jared and the forum; my tone and the content was certainly out of the context of the good fun that is the great game of golf and this forum. Guess your statement hit a hot button particularly your statement that Dufner got to participate in some rigged closed lottery every week which is unfair and untrue - that said it was childish for me to respond in the way that i did.
PS - i never said teachers were clueless dumbasses - some are brilliant, some are, as a matter of fact, clueless dumbasses... sounds like both of us would love to get the clueless dumbasses out and more of the teachers of the year in. Keep up the good work fighting the good fight and apologies for taking this off topic. Sincere apologies - be well.
He didn't say it was rigged.
I will defer to those who know but I will say I hear it isn't easy for the "up and comers" to push aside the older "hanging on" guys in golf either. The system is set up to offer protection to the players who have been exempt in the past.
There are "clueless dumbasses" in all walks of life. A lot of political rhetoric these days makes teachers out to be the root of all problems in the country which is incredibly unfair. I didn't cause the financial crisis in this country yet I have to pay for it and I get the blame too. It's a touchy subject for teachers when they are hear that they "suck the system dry" as you said.
I'd like to know where your teacher friends worked to clear 200K in guaranteed public retirement. I won't go into all of the specifics but knowing what I know I have no idea how it is possible, unless they were high level administrators which is a different animal all together. Even then that's a bit of a stretch.
Anyway, this is where I'm coming from. I don't begrudge anyone who can command the kind of money that pro athletes make. The market dictates it. I tried to bring some humor (hence the smilies in my post) to the fact that I will never earn that kind of money. I didn't say it to make a political statement about the unfairness blah blah that some might. If I wanted to make gobs of money I would have done something else. About the only thing I'm good at and enjoy doing though is teaching middle and high school students to make music and make it listenable by most who hear it.
OK, now that I have that off my chest, how awesome must it be to go from wondering if you can stay on the Hooters tour and two years later people are talking about you as PGA Tour player of the year?
