MW
Years ago
as title suggests, there's been 2 flag bearer over just last 4 Olympics. Yet more money has gone into other sports such as soccer. please justify for us, basketball is a major sport worldwide in which Australia excels at give them the honor (in women's basketball) and funding as it rightfully deserves.
MW
Years ago
btw I know they honored by giving them the flag bearing duty but I meant when they actually wins. It's barely celebrated when Opals medal...
Ricey
Years ago
Just because our sport gets to represent the country by walking the flag and winning the occasional medal doesn't the sport automatically deserves money. Would you invest in a company that can't go a year without rumors of it closing it's national league, a league which has teams constantly on the verge of shutting their doors (and yet again another in past couple weeks)... Why do people keep bringing this up? Instea of posting on here about how bad the funding is, go give the government a reason to place some serious funding towards the sport nationally, especially in marketing!
Barry
Years ago
The afl and nrl clearly show the only way a national comp can easily be sustained is big juicy tv deals. Soccer is in trouble in some areas in this country and only survives on the world cup windfall. Basketball is one of the few Olympic and world sports which survives in it's own right on a national level in both male and female teams. It will always be tough to attract dollars for the sport without television cove rage and ratings pressure. It is disappointing but not surprising that basketball is poorly funded in this state perhaps the level of negativity amongst it's own "supporters" is a factor. Participation numbers are good but facilities were poor but tell me how many indoor stadiums were built by Rudd in schools over the last 4 years?
Ricey, We are comparing sports and their funding. Eg. Basketball vs Netball . It is NOT Basketball vs CompanyX. and FYI, States does not fund companies (in theory at least :)
.
Years ago
andrew and lauren are great personalities as well as sportspersons - which i.m.o. makes them ideal ambassadors
HO
Years ago
sigh.... here we go.. MW
Let me try and explain:
a) Its funding, not money
b) Basketball is well funded, comparable to other sports, on core high performance funding - it remains one of the top 6-8 funded sports in Australia in this area
c) If you add all the funding for sport and related items then you might be able to argue a case that the AFL has done extremely well for funding, and the other sports are relatively poorly off, but that is probably the only argument you can make.
d) to do this for c), you have to add together money for high performance, for participation, for sponsorship, for venue reconstructions etc etc etc
e) however, even this is a little dodgy, as the SA government would argue the money it is putting into Adelaide oval for example is for more than just AFL...
So your case is hard to argue, because it is hard to prove.
What you can object to, is direct operational funding by the Government for professional sports in football - Western Sydney and the establishment of the W league. This is funding that has been consistently denied to other sports when they have asked.
Otherwise, there is hardly anything to back up your original premise.
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