Camel urine and dancing bears

Oh sorry I thought we were just saying things that dont go together

Problem is everyone says something has to happen but no one agrees.

For example 18 rounds was decided by the clubs not BSA. Waratah has 26, SEABL has 20 rounds, WA has 19 rounds, BigV has 18 rounds and QBL has 14 rounds.

Some say not Saturday nights, others say not weekdays. All other comps are on weekends. All other comps with Youth Leagues play YL on weekends as well. Victoria play SEABL, Youth League, BigV, D League and Div 1 and Div 2 Seniors all on Weekends.

Some say full pro/rel, others say it will hurt the smaller/weaker clubs

Some say zone, others say its unfair.

IMO unless we have a council/commission who can see past their own backyard and make decisions which are best for basketball as a whole it doesn't matter what admin BSA have.

27 game round and you can kiss goodbye to half the volunteers that keep the game running as it is.

People work, and the volunteers dont get paid to be there, they do it for the love of the game/club. But when you are asking them to be away from family at least twice a week, it just wont happen.

Same as if you move it to a day time on the weekend. At least being in the evening, volunteers can still be with their family and do family things during the day. Players tend to be young, and I am sure plenty of them have a more than active social life after their Saturday night games.

Of course I am talking CABL level, summer league and other levels, well fight that out yourselves :)

Now that Qaddafi is gone ,lets get together and do something about the dictators in this sport.Get the clubs together and lock the doors till they come up with an agreement for the sports future!

What doors can the clubs close?

They don't own or run a single stadium.

The problem people on the commission would like nothing better then for the clubs to try and go it on their own.

And where would the District Clubs play?

BSA would set up a new competition.

And good luck getting the district clubs to work together. That's why we're in this mess in the first place.

Need to restructure the Junior year instead of the same old system that was built in the 1970's.

Need to look at the purpose of a 10 week summer season. It should look to promote and increase participation especially in juniors.

I propose that BSA divide its comp into a North / South over summer, and include regional centers.

North:
Centrals
North
Norwood
Riverland
Barossa
Spencer Gulf
West
eastern

South:
Sturt
Forrestville
South
woodville
Southern
Victor Harbor
Murray Bridge


Then in Winter championship season (Feb - August)
Country centers combine with adelaide teams and make an elite 8 div1 comp.

maybe throw in a Limestone coast into the southern group

There is an AGM but I do not know who actually gets to vote at AGM's - is it affiliated member individuals or organisations.

There is an issue with the structure of BSA. You have the operations headed up by Mark Hubbard - this is akin to the operations of a business. Next you have the Commission which is like a Board of Directors and the Council which is like the Shareholders. Unfortunately the Commission is made of up 4 independents, and 1 rep from each of District, Church and Country. There is no doubt that revenue is driven by the District arm of BSA as game revenue generated by Church and Country is retained within those organisations. Annual budgets and ongoing overseeing of performance of BSA, the operations, is controlled by the Commission. Even a blind man can see the issue here. Most of the revenue to maintain BSA is from District but they only have 1/7 of the votes to control changes in fees charged by BSA. (There is a small element made up of association fees which impact all) Council and Church vote on fee costs affecting District but not the other way around.

All members of the Commission are required in their position as Commission members to work in the best interests of basketball in total but you need to really question whether this can occur. I presume the independent members elected by the council should ensure this happens but once again the power is skewed to the Church and Country Associations.

Forget about tinkering around with types of competitions and pro/rel etc etc. The structure needs to be equitable to fairly represent each affiliated member group otherwise Church and Country will continue to ride on the coat tails of revenue generated by District. If these bodies deny that and see no benefit then I pose the question - "Why continue to be an affiliated member of BSA?"

The reality is that Church and country see no real reason to be affiliated, and would be happy to go their own way.
However BSA (Basketball South Australia not Basketball Adelaide) has the resposibility of the sport in SA.
The council / commission structure is sound, the funding model is not.

For anything to change the Clubs must get on the same page, good luck with that.

Until that happens, it is better in the hands of independants.

The issues in the structure can be fixed in the voting process, all it takes is the majority of stakeholders thinking the same. Again good luck with that.