"Manager at the Blackwood Golf Club" - I think he comes very cheaply ????? You pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

That's not a personal insult, I dont know the guy or his background, but just a reflection on the guy's current position.

The BSA board must believe that its best to get people outside of basketball. There are plenty of corporate/business/sporting leaders currently or previously involved with basketball. This guy appears to be neither a corporate/business/sport leader nor involved with basketball.

A very interesting appointment.

Isaac, where did the article come from? Is there any more detail about his national level sporting management roles? I think MBA's post may be a bit premature, but I know what he/she is getting at.

It's like the Hyatt announcing their best restaurant has a new chef - formally the shift manager at Croydon Macca's.

Lets give him a chance.

I think that it will be good for the newly appointed CEO not to have all the biase prejuidices that seems to exist amongst the basketball fraternity.

It will be good for an outsider to see how everything is run, and hopefully keep the good, and make changes to improve the not so good.

Sometimes the best decisions are not always the popular decisions. and he is not going to please all of us. That would be impossible.

So we will have to wait to see what impact he will have.

I do think that there are many positives about the basketball community & resources, and that the right person can turn the association around.

Lets hope it is not more of the same, and nothing changes.

All the best Mark.


PS Mark. There are a lot of experts who write in (ha ha ha)

thedoctor, press release from the Acting CEO.

SD, fair enough. I hardly think a corporate/business/sporting leader would be managing a golf course. Lets get some perspective; this guy will be overseeing an organisation that has ownership or long term leases on $Millions in assets, and literally 1000s of stakeholders, add to that the current political issues involved amongs the various constituants as well as the government itself - Foley will be watching him closely for example!

I might be premature but if this guy has this kind of experience what the hell is he doing managing Blackwood Golf Club, with all due respect to him.

Treasurer Foley stated that the administrators of basketball had let their sport down badly. Therefore SD, we cannot afford the luxury of "giving him a chance". MBA in 97749 post has summed the situation very well; we trust the appointment made by Bruce Spangler and the commision has been made with the long term benefit of basketball in mind, not just some inexpensive Mr Fixit type short term solution.

I believe he will be able to utilise the holes in the floor at Pasadena for the National Putt Putt Championships.
BTW- any progress at Pasa?

MBA:

My two cents (actually, I think it's probably closer to about $2 going on length)...

I am responsible for, and a substantial stakeholder in, a privately owned company here in Adelaide, and would argue that it is almost certainly too early to pass judgement on Mark Hubbard.

You mention that BSA is involved with assets in the $m range, thousands of stakeholders and some involvement from the Government. My company has assets in the tens of millions, many stakeholders and has worked closely with various elements of the Government on multiple occasions, but I'd almost guarantee you wouldn't recognise my name. I would suggest that this doesn't mean I shouldn't be in my current role.

Because Mr Hubbard isn't a well known public figure doesn't mean the guy won't be the best thing that happens to basketball in SA (I'm not suggesting he will or won't do a good job - I really don't know). He may be managing the Blackwood golf club as a lifestyle choice, or for other reasons we know nothing about.

Lastly, I'm not sure that BSA can afford to bring on the kind of CEO you may be imagining. Although the basketball (via the 36ers etc..) has a reasonable public profile, BSA is actually a pretty small enterprise. They have a capital value of probably a couple of million and a reasonably low turn-over. That said, there I do acknowledge that there is some appeal to being involved with a public sporting body.

I think that is my long and convoluted way of saying give the guy a chance before you shoot him down. You never know, he may surprise you. As dribbler mentioned, Bruce Spangler most likely had some good reasons for selecting Mark Hubbard.

National putt-putt championships do sound like fun though!

Did Paul Bell get an interview? he has the passion and would of been a good choice IMO.

The choice has been made.

Lets all get behind Mark and support him to turn the basketball association around.

A good CEO will normally have a very good support structure around him. He will have very competatnt people to advise him.

Thee are many very well qualified people who would be able to take over the CEO role, and most we would have not heard of before.

So lets not judge him because we do not know who he is, or does not come from the right organisation.

Our support is important for Mark to do his job properly.
In six months time, then lets see how he has progressed.

As usual some amazingly negative posts with little knowledge of the facts, or understanding of the process, IMO.

1. Firstly, Spangler didn't appoint him. The new Board did that includes some very clever business and basketball people including David Spear and Greg May.

2. Actual process - common guys this was a recruitment process. From the outside it would appear the job was advertised in the right areas, they spoke to head hunters (i assume)looked at the candidates who applied, interviewd the most qualified and surprise surprise appointed the candidate they thought was the best, in terms of training education and experience. qualifications.

What else exactly should they have done?

But no posters on here no better, why........because he has come from Blackwood Golf Club!! So what.

Both CEO and SD make some great points above. But the best is that not every good administrator is well known or have a high profile, be they in private or govt employment.

Unless you were involved in the process (and I wasn't like the other posters I assume)you know nothing of what has transpired leading up to the appointment.

Here is a novel thought, lets all chill just for a while, and wait to see how the appointment works out before critising.

If you know the facts then pass judgment (ie how many of you have seen his CV, know him personally or professionally?), if not you are just being ignorant and, quite frankly, stupid.
It's a golden rule that you can't pass judgment on something you don't know enough about. The legal system has uneducated idiots shooting it down every day, but they don't know what they are talking about. The same applies here

I have a strong Financial background, having been involved over the years in various corporate restructures.

I have a son who plays basketball, and have experienced all the frustrations most parents have experienced.

The issue is what the goals of Basketball SA are?

I posted this question a few weeks ago, and got various answers. The problem is that many readers see Basketball SA with different goals.

And really, we must judge Mark on how he achieves the goals that he is set by Basketball SA.
Not by the goals we think he should have.

Mark has quite a job on his hands.
I do not think that there are many quick fixes.
He will need time to assess where basketball SA is at, and then where they should be.
And it is his job to make sure that Basketball SA move in the right direction.

I think that it is good that he is an "outsider".
What if it came out that he had a chld playing for "Sturt".
He would be evan more doomed.

It is important that he looks at the problems objectively, and not subjectively as most us parents / members of various basketball clubs would do.

He has a very difficult job ahead of him.
Lets all helpas much as we can.
Put forward positive points on this Forum, maybe he will take note.

We are talking about the Basketball SA CEO. Not the Basketball Adelaide CEO, Basketball SA is the peak body to run all basketball in SA where as Basketball Adelaide will run the metropolitan side of basketball in Adelaide eg senior and junior comps that BASA use to run. I think people don't understand the new structure as it is. That maybe because everything has not been finalized yet. I don't know? We are talking about two different groups here not one as it use to be.

Well Done Mark!! Gongratulations on your appointment as CEO
Onwards and upwards!
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