1579 Jill Nicolini Interviews Steve Jennings ACS and PBIA Master level instructor

Randy, you were one of the founding members of the first professional billiard instructors programs under the auspices of the Billiard Congress of America, the BCA.

Why don't you take us back there to what it was like in the early days and what brought this all about? Well,

that's quite a story.

I hope everybody's got their coffee with them.

I got my water, but go ahead.

We got it.

We got this.

I've been with the Billiard Congress of America since 1965.

Yeah, I was in an unofficial capacity, but I was part of their membership and worked under a great man by the name of Robert Freshly.

In the mid 70s and into the 80s, the Billiard Congress of America was selling.

Are you ready for this now? They were selling instructor certificates.

Oh.

I believe for $100, you could buy a certificate that said, I'm an instructor.

Oh, my goodness.

I know.

I know.

But that's the way things were in the 70s.

Of course.

I can get a college diploma, too.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No, same thing.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I met a gentleman in the early 70s by the name of Jerry Brice, which...

Randy, you were one of the founding members of the first professional billiard instructors programs under the auspices of the Billiard Congress of America, the BCA.

Why don't you take us back there to what it was like in the early days and what brought this all about? Well,

that's quite a story.

I hope everybody's got their coffee with them.

I got my water, but go ahead.

We got it.

We got this.

I've been with the Billiard Congress of America since 1965.

Yeah, I was in an unofficial capacity, but I was part of their membership and worked under a great man by the name of Robert Freshly.

In the mid 70s and into the 80s, the Billiard Congress of America was selling.

Are you ready for this now? They were selling instructor certificates.

Oh.

I believe for $100, you could buy a certificate that said, I'm an instructor.

Oh, my goodness.

I know.

I know.

But that's the way things were in the 70s.

Of course.

I can get a college diploma, too.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No, same thing.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I met a gentleman in the early 70s by the name of Jerry Brice, which...