How does the Church or Scouts SA hags enough money to buy, and maintain, the stadium?

How does the Church afford it?.. Come on, they're rich!!

Scouts on the other hand. Wow

How does a church have money?? Are you serious?

How long until we get the TV Cube?

http://www.adelaide36ers.com/article/id/w5y46el137wq1raduwf57y2vh

An excited person wrote the headline on the 36ers site:

Adelaide Arena SOLD!!!!!! To Scouts SA and SA Church Basketball

Did Mitch Creek write that?

Church = worlds largest bank/corporation...

Can't wait for Jesus Christ Bobblehead night!

Great news though. Especially as it could potentially help lower expenses for the club, and boost numbers at games. Not to mention will hopefully get the stadium used more in the community and become a recognised venue again.

Naming rights to Scouts, I assume? Scouts SA Arena? Scouts Centre?

Scout Hall?

^^ Only if we all get free toothpicks upon entry.

Lets hope they've done there due diligence as nobody has seemed to of made a profit in the past. Maybe they could have scout jamborees there or rent it out to Hillsong....

They should change the team's name from the Adelaide 36ers to the A-Men

so what does this mean exactly ?

sa church basketball will be there saturdays ?

will we have mini jamborees on the lawn some long weekends ?


aust church basketball nationals will be there ?

good to see some connections with basketball purchasing it

will we see district juniors back there fri nights ?

A truly interesting partnership,I hope it works well for the sake of basketball.Friday night games across all three courts would be great.

Big Gay Al for new head coach perhaps??

hahah, no, you silly goose

Congratulations to both the Scouts and SACBA, great for community events and community involvement. It might be true that both are charitable organisations, thus get Tax concessions. That's a plus for management of the Arena and will go along way to running the Arena constructively. As a former Church Basketballer I would hope that SACBA may be able to roster matches at the Arena in the future.

Well Done South Australia!

church and scouts own the place - so they can call the shots - will be a given that church ball will be there IMO.

are we likely to see fri nights / sat morn district juniors back there ?

scouts can have a huge jamboree there - camp on the grounds and meet / speeches etc / cook ups in the stadium.

build some adventure stuff that scouts have on the grounds

how about an arena market bi-monthly ?

It's going to be a money saver for the church and scouts more than a money maker. They no longer will require a hired venue every event, and so on. Owning the property gives them a large asset, tax benefits and less expenditure. They didn't buy it for income weekly, simply for portfolio growth which is great for basketball as they won't need to sell it ever.

Since when have the scouting organisation ever been linked as a religious organisation?

The principles of Scouting are that Scouts should serve God, act in consideration of the needs of others and develop and use their abilities to the betterment of themselves and their families and the community in which they live.

Its not a church, its Church Basketball. As far as I am aware it is not affiliated with any church, so to say the church is rolling in money is irrelevant and debatable for another location. The term church like half the English language has a very broad meaning - again irrelevant so I'll stop right there.

I hope the scouts have a busy bee day and clean up the outside of the stadium. Also fix the outside lights and level the pavers to avoid tripping hazzards when leaving in the dark.

Wouldn't it be great for junior basketball if the Adelaide Area/Dome/Powerhouse was once again used for junior basketball on Friday nights.The Country State Champs and the just completed Easter Carnival has showed us all what junior basketball is missing out on.

What HAS the venue been used for on Friday nights and Saturday mornings if not junior basketball?

occasional lightning and 36ers games

MEO has made the point I was going to make, that the Church has not bought the Arena from what we are seeing here.

Interesting dynamic now for the relationship with BSA.

Church Basketball SA is surely ran by a/the church, otherwise it's like calling the team the Adelaide 36ers and having home games in Melbourne

SA Church Basketball Association home page is at http://www.sportingpulse.com/assoc_page.cgi?c=1-80-0-0-0&sID=255511

Its aims are listed as:

THE AIMS OF SA CHURCH BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION

To provide inter-club basketball competition for both male and female members of Clubs, within the City of Adelaide and surrounding districts, as may be affiliated with the Association, in accordance with the restrictions set forth within the Constitution.

Encourage the spirit of comradeship and high ideals in teamwork through basketball.

Assist Churches in the maintenance of the interest and involvement in the wider activities of the Churches by their young members.

Promote the community interest and involvement in Church Basketball and in Basketball generally.
______________________________________________

No annual reports that I found (didn't look hard), so no idea about the financial strength of the association.

I'm a little surprised that BSA didn't get involved in this deal also.

For the Scouts SA financial side, their 2012 Annual report says "overall turnover exceeded $28m" and refers to contributing $1.45 million to Scouting Operations, of which $440,000 was directed to "property/capital related expenditure".

There might be more detail in the report but that's what I found from a quick skim of the first dozen pages.

Sounds pretty healthy.

Ricey, throughout Australia there are remnant competitions in sport, started by church groups, that now at best have a loose affiliation with those churches.

Melbourne has a Salvation Army Basketball comp, Sydney used to have churches cricket and soccer.

Its a long long time since the "church" ran most of these competitions.

This seems very good for us fans, and i'm pretty happy with Scouts/Church basketball taking over, at least we aren't seeing the stadium taken over for non-basketball purposes (ie as a religious church)

the city of churches/basketball arenas

interesting.....the church is a wealthy business so if it is a good deal it makes sense.

boy scouts and churches...not so interesting.

I'd love to see the stadium changed back to
"THE POWERHOUSE"

That would be nice but realistically it will have some scout reference.

I'm hoping for the WoggleDome

dyb dyb dyb , dob dob dob dome ?

^ I don't know about being in the arena name, but it could certainly be incorporated into the coaching philosophy.

Scouts SA has actually transformed itself very well over the years. The recycling centres are the cash cow of the organisation bringing in a strong revenue stream. For them to purchase the Arena, I would expect them to have a pretty good long term vision for the site.

This is good news really. At the very least it means that the 36ers and Lightning don't have any worries about where they'll be playing their home games in the future and that can only be a good thing.

LOL @ Bo Hamburger......"Scout Hall"

I'm hapy that someone with a basketball focus has made the purchase and thre is no longer any doubts as to where the Sixers and Lightning will play in the future.

Will/do the new owners plan on spending any money on the arena with fixes/upgrades etc?

Scouts SA talks about the decision - link via Boti.

Written with genuine care and is proactive. Sounds like a pretty professional organisation.

How about as a venue name......The Recycling Depot.....could be quite apt with all the talk of Maher / Smyth coming back!!

It is absolutely in our interests for the Arena to be profitable and that means being used as a home and training facility for the 36ers, Lightning as well as any functions it can possibly get its hands on, Scout stuff and social/church basketball. The buyers are organisations who could actually use it really well without really interfering with the welfare of our national basketball teams. 36ers and basketball in general can certainly relate better to Scouts than to ABC Learning Centres with their giant logos it used to have the court.

Hopefully it's constantly used and well utilised!

The Brett Prayer Court at The Scout Hall.

oh dear...