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Wednesday, January 08, 2014
PRCA responds, says it has issues with cowboys’ requests
These have been busy days for the nine-member governing board of the
Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, the organization that sanctions
the popular National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas. Not only is the PRCA board mulling whether to keep the NFR in Las Vegas or move it to Central Florida after this year, now the board is coping with an insurrection from big-name cowboy contestants who say they are defecting because the board rejected their request for more of a say on PRCA matters. On Tuesday night, the PRCA presented its side of the story. The
Colorado Springs, Colo.-based association explained in the statement
that 11 cowboy contestants asked the PRCA board last Saturday to add and
amend 18 bylaws, including adding contestant board seats and addressing
eligibility rules for the NFR. But the PRCA board members had some issues with the cowboys’ requests, the PRCA statement said. The
board members expressed concerns about voting on all 18 bylaw changes
without vetting the requests, according to the PRCA statement. The board
members requested more time to research the cowboys’ proposal. But, according to the PRCA statement, the group of top contestants denied the request for more time to research the proposal. “In
the interest of serving all 6,000-plus PRCA members and the entire
sport of professional rodeo, the PRCA Board requested additional time to
research and carefully consider all requests from the contestant group,
but the 11 contestants denied that request,” the statement said. The
contestants who came armed with the proposed changes saw it
differently. The cowboys — led by rodeo star Trevor Brazile, the 11-time
world all-around champion — said the PRCA board rejected their changes.
And
in response, the contestants signed a statement posted Monday on
Facebook saying they are creating a new rodeo cowboy organization. If
the top cowboys leave the PRCA, it’s unclear how the rodeo association
would continue running the NFR without the premier performers. But
the PRCA board is forging ahead. It will decide whether it will keep
the NFR in Las Vegas after 29 years, or move it to Osceola County
outside Orlando starting in 2015. Las Vegas Events, the nonprofit
organization that partners with the PRCA on the 10-day rodeo event in
Las Vegas every December, gave PRCA Commissioner Karl Stressman until
Jan. 14 to submit a counteroffer. The PRCA board, on Dec. 15, rejected a
LVE offer and voted to continue negotiating with the counteroffer...more
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