Whistleblower
Years ago
What is happening to the ITC program and who is behind it?
I'm told it will no longer be offered to country juniors unless they are prepared tp travel to Adelaide weekly.
Is this act of total nonsense a BA decision or another of BASA's classic's to discriminate against country juniors
ITC is just a name for a program that could be run by the same coaches, in the same stadiums, for the same kids regardless of it's name.
ITC is a network program setup and overseen by Basketball Australia. Its run by state basketball bodies and institutes out of each state.
EG. Our ITC program is run by Neil Gliddon at the South Australian Sports Institute.
Its generally the stepping stone for players to the All Australian Camps and the AIS.
Roge
Years ago
The programs for country kids are the same as suggested by #86974.
Same program different name. Country is now called Development Network Squad Program (DNSP).
This is only a slight change and as a player will not affect you in any negative way, you will recieve the same attention from the same coaches. No discrimination.
Look at it as if you changed your name... you are the same person, different label.
No discrimination until a country junior and a metro run for the same spot in a State team that is
ITA
Years ago
#87012 there are seperate state teams for country and metro (bar u20s at which stage ITC involvement ceases anyway). So a "country ITC" kid (now DNSP) will never compete for a "metro ITC" kids spot...
coach5
Years ago
I suggest those that have questions on the new structure address their questions to the person who overseas the development programs in their area, as Roge says, things aren't really changing in the way we deliver development to our juniors.
development? every year the metro state team is just stacked with sasi players even though there are better, late developing players not in sasi. The stars of under 14's are not often known by the time it gets to under 18's and still they remain in the sasi program ahead of kids who can play better anyway
87263 - Buddy, this thread is talking about the ITC program, the country version of SASI. ITC selection happens throughout every-year, often recognising those late-developing players.
and as has been said before, these kids don't compete against metro kids.
i know:) just looking for a place to say something that needed to be said ;)
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