Hoops

BIG V 2018

Okay Anon, that's one point of view and a subjective one if I may be so bold.

Here is another one:

Record numbers of juniors playing basketball
Associations expanding and court availability maxing out with the amount of juniors wanting got play
VJBL at record numbers
State and National level basketball continues to feed elite players through their systems
College athletes from Australia going to the US in record numbers
NBL set for expansion and seeing record numbers of attendances, TV viewers and quality of play recognised world wide
etc...etc...etc...

When you talk about officials being overworked, teams folding and other structural and system oriented issues you are talking about symptoms of poor management and a lack of leadership within individual locations. Sometimes these are not supported at State level and fall over, other times it is just circumstance, bad planning or whatever happens to cause a team to fail or quality to fall temporarily. Things change all the time, but the big picture seems clear.

Yes, more has to be done to catch up to the huge increase in the sport's popularity, but to say the quality is being diluted, I don't agree because what I am seeing is the next group of young guns developing.

The structure of the whole system does need more support, I agree with that, I also agree that many things can improve further, however what do we do in the mean time? We can't ignore the number of good and elite players coming through, we need to provide somewhere for them to play. The answer isn't to stop the growth, it is to provide better leadership, infrastructure, direction and support where it is needed most I think...

The quality of coaching and officiating is something that needs more support, I agree with you. That is where more money needs to go, rather than wasting it in areas that provide flash or profits, this is long term investment that many Associations and basketball at State level must consider crucial, yes you are correct. But the quality of players and play is not being diluted IMHO.

Bear have a look at the overall quality. It is being diluted. Numbers doesn't mean quality.

Cracks would mean, teams folding their programs, or on the brink. That hasn't happened much in the past.

Off court, quality of coaches in many teams not great. Refs resources are stretched to the max, resulting in lower quality. League office staff are seriously overworked.
A good business principle in large scale operations is the rule of 150. Once a number of a category to manage reaches 150, cracks will appear, and re structures are necessary to divide to keep he quality up. Bigv getting closer and closer to 150 teams each year at the moment and every year more issues etc are popping up like spot fires.

Anon #671641 where are the cracks, what do you mean watering down?

Do you realise how many kids are coming through the system every year wanting to play but going to other sports because of the lack of spots available?

I disagree 100% with what you are saying, it is the opposite actually.......

Practice match results?

Mornington women going to be pulled this week. Only had three players at training last session

Any SCM early season predictions?

Starting to see the problems with league expanding too quickly over the past few years. Talent pool on and off the court is thinning out every season. Cracks starting to appear

So apparentally this is official but there's nothing been on the BigV Website....They are so slack with news!

Anyways Keilor and now Blackburn Vikings have been promoted to SCM...

^Like what?

Sounds like you know something??

That's right, very hard to make estimates or suggest who is going where when the whole structure of the league may change.

Will be interesting, to watch this space...