Hoops

ABA draft of 36er players

I agree with Mmmm it seems it has started to work in Country footy quite a bit but only allowing a number of points to recruit. In this case most top teams wouldn't have enough points to recruit 2 sixers whereas the bottom 5 teams could. It also promotes spending time on and promoting juniors. I still believes there needs to be a salary cap though because as I have seen in Country football instead of being able to try and recruit 10 players at $150/game they can only recruit 3 players at $500 a game, but because there is more competition out there for the top end players the prices have gone up to about $1000 a game for your top 1 or 2 players, sometimes even up to $1500 a game. This kind of thing would again favour the clubs who have a strong junior base and a strong income from sponsors and or bar facilities.
I still think that as a coach $7500 is a pathetic amount to try and recruit players. A starting five player in the SEABL would easily bring in $300 a game which equals $5400 a season, that's more than 70% of your budget gone. I understand that clubs are struggling to survive but there is a fine line there where some of these players, like the sixers players if they played in the SBL could easily generate more income for some of these clubs. I think $10,000 would be more suitable and achievable for most clubs.
Again the "wealthier" clubs can afford to employ these players as Junior Development Officers of the club and pay them outside the club salary cap but not every club can afford a full time JDO or 2 part time JDO's.
I would really hope that if the majority of the Sixers do play locally that both BSA an the clubs really get out and promote the league.
Anyway, that's my 2 cents worth.

There is a huge difference between football and basketball in this area and yes, the devil is in the detail. The Sixers don't need to get involved in the admin, it just needs to be administered by BSA. Spreading out talent will only be challenged by those who feel they will be disadvantaged by the change.

Personally, I like things to be balanced and I feel that spreading out the talent actually provides a better competition than having all talent in a few teams. When I watch sport, I want to see teams with at least half a chance of success, not Buckley's.

I say bring it on, but also maybe the Sixers could further consider nominally allocating a player to be a "Club Ambassador" to each of the ABA Clubs (sorry Western Magic and Cougars, but there's only 10) to both promote the Sixers at a Club level and also work with the ABA.


However, people are threatened by change and no doubt a thread like this will attract a number of anonymous posts against such a move like a seagull to a chip.