Hoops

SEABL, BA & BIG V

Be interesting to see the cost of entry.

You can see positives or negatives, depending on your point of view I guess.

From a positive perspective I think a D League would provide an additional pathway to those Associations that go from Youth Yeague to SEABL only and may help keep local players from leaving the game.

Such a D-League concept would not, in my opinion, cause the killing or huge disadvantage to any Associations not in SEABL because the Big V would essentially still exist and in its current format and players would not likely move en mass.

Rules could be put in place to prevent these issues regardless.

If the D-league Associations do the right thing and use this concept as a feeder to their SEABL programs by giving their best youth players the chance to develop in a strong adult league for a year or two it may keep local talent in their SEABL club rather than lose them or have too many imports take their spots in the long run.

On the Con side of things, some may see this concept diluting the talent pool in the Big V for the first couple of season as a bad thing that cannot be recovered from, however one could argue it may be a small pain for long term gain...

The other idea would be for the Big V to allow all SEABL associations to enter the Men's and Women's Championship/D1 like the Supercats have done and create a larger competition within the Big V, but if restrictions apply and an Association like Geelong is asked to leave the Big V D1, well then I guess they have little choice but to join a D-League concept in stead.

The question is this:

Is there enough basketball talent in Victoria to support an additional league under SEABL that conceptually bridges the gap for players of youth league age without compromising the quality or integrity of competitions between those Associations that can afford SEABL and those who cannot?

I believe there is...

Hahaha a SEABL reserves comp, no pathways, kill the small associations off and the big clubs win yeah this will surely go ahead.

Great concept. A true D League with no age restriction. Only rules is no imports and 5 restricted players nominated in SEABL comp who cannot move between comps.

Games not to clash so 8-12 players in SEABL roster can get a regular game in the D League.

Will kill off the Big V SYCM & SYCW comp and weaken the SCM & SCW comp.

I like it.

You can include Mt Gambier & Albury into that list. And exclude Knox. They are no longer in SEABL.

New Victorian D-League

Sandringham
Frankston
Bendigo
Ballarat
Geelong
Nunawading
Knox
Melbourne
Dandenong
Kilsyth

That would be some competition.

Sorry, that should have read, Melbourne and other Victorian SABL Associations.

I hear the Melbourne based SEABL clubs are looking to form a D League to provide a competition outside of the Big V because the Big V will not allow Associations to have Youth League and seniors if they are also in SEABL.

Is Geelong classified as Melbourne anon ?

I hear the Melbourne based SEABL clubs are looking to form a D League to provide a competition outside of the Big V because the Big V will not allow Associations to have Youth League and seniors if they are also in SEABL.

Many of the Dleague players went into either SEABL or BigV champioship, leaving room for those who could not make the Dleague sides to join the youth championships sides, so it wasn't a case of them being relegated or even dropped. Some clubs chose to run a Div1 team so some of their older players had somewhere to go to

The reality is if it's a stronger comp than the other which SEABL is purely due to the fact it attracts the more elite and experienced players then it has to be looked at as the second teir league after NBL/WNBL.
The fact bigV and SEABL are used by many clubs at the same time, comes from the division years ago to move away from the SEABL Dleague level to allow the BigV Championship and Youth Championship better opportunities to grow as they were becoming less competitive due to the bigger clubs attracting stronger players into Dleague in the hopes of making that clubs SEABL sides. In doing so it's actually increased the strength of the BigV comp but made SEABL that step further up from BigV. Room for both in all clubs if they can afford it and get the players.

what I'm saying is, they are all second-tiered leagues. SEABL isn't higher up on the rack, no matter how much the SEABL thinks they are. Sure it is a more competitive league and is attractive to Americans, but it's not above the other five on the tier system

lol at SEABL being called "second-tiered" as if it's higher than the other five state leagues. They are all on the same semi-professional level - SEABL isn't a higher grade than SBL or QBL, c'mon now. The Darwin league, now that's third-tiered