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Ushiro

Years ago

Promotion/Relegation, its time.

Nothing has changed since I started playing juniors for South Adelaide in the mid 1960's. The only difference is that all juniors were then played at either the old Forestville (Boys) or Bowden (girls) stadiums. The population burst and urban sprawl in the 1970s and 1980s resulted in new stadiums being built around Adelaide, especially the outer suburbs, many of which developed their own competitions outside of BASA. Concentrate all junior competition to a couple of inner metropolitan stadium with a limit on the number of teams from each club in each grade and things may change.

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Imno

Years ago

Solution to your problem...................
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If your unhappy with Basketball in S.A.
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Come over to the DARK SIDE
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Move to VICTORIA
(we have 3 times the same sort of crappy problems you guys have)

COMMENT WRITTEN - tongue in cheek

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Jack Toft

Years ago

I am not a fan of pro/rel as such as there are too many variables. Pro/rel is more about driving using the rear vision mirror than looking out the windscreen. I am a fan of clubs placing teams appropriately based on skill level. I am not a fan of teams getting beaten by +30 each game. I consider the best games are those +/- 10 points. I am not a fan of a strict zone, but I am a fan of kids supporting their closest club first. I am a fan of clubs putting their hand on their heart when kids who are closer to other clubs come to them and they say "have you considered X, who are closer to you?" I am not a fan of clubs offering incentives to junior players to play for them like $50/yr fees, free uniforms, petrol money etc.

The gap between the #1 and #10 clubs is just too large. I am not saying the strong clubs need to get weaker, the weak clubs need to get stronger.

The sport needs to get more kids playing the sport. The AFL model is a massive pyramid and they know the bigger the base, the better the point. This must be the same principle adopted in basketball. There are too many barriers at the moment preventing growth in the sport.

Same old, same old; Your comment about fragmentation is valid. In SA you can play basketball without having any affiliation to BSA, yet with AFL, that is not the case. BSA need to be in control of basketball, but if you are playing social ball at one of the Rec Centres scattered around the suburbs, what does BSA offer? and if you are one of those operators, why support BSA when all you good players then move on and you loose revenue?

As part of this government funded facilities review, there also needs to be a review of how the game is structured and controlled in this state.

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