Jack your question has less relevance nowadays because there is precious little in the way of practical difference between a SASI full scholarship holder and an associate scholarship holder.
In most of the other sports at the institute you get a bag full of goodies like track suits and even sponsored sports stuff.SASI basketballers get diddley squat and pay for everything.That's wrong, they do get to borrow their SASI training outfit and get to see a SASI tracksuit in photographs.
Once upon a time, dear jack, the trip to America was funded but now its a lottery and cost 7 to 8 grand if you go at all and dependent on the wee fellow's whims, as the girls from the past 2 or 3 years have not gone at all. Apparently they weren't talented enough.
SASI basketball is not a joke but it is a chuckle and there is a concerted effort to keep it a closed shop.
It's no secret that Sturt girls do well at SASI and there is a strong connection with sturt SASI coaches also involved in metro state coaching staff. Forestville do well with their connection with country state coaches. Of late Sturt and Forestville have opened a branch in Mt Barker with Sturt lending it's coaches and both clubs lending players to the branch.
The coaching director at SASI is very knowledgeable about the game but the structure that has evolved is tarnished but because we are such a small insignificant sport dynasties not only arise but are heralded and scrutiny is not in basketball's vocabulary.
