Isaac
Years ago
Boti interviewed on 5AA last night
Will try for a quick recap for those who missed the chat with KG and Cornes.
Essentially, Boti believes that it's a positive thing for basketball. Straight away, he pulls them up on the term "financial administrator" and replaces it with "interim controller" to imply that basketball has a future and isn't necessarily being wound up.
Outlines that he thinks the club presidents sacking the board (as they attempted to do in the past) would have been perceived more positively than the government intervention. Says, who cares how it happens, it's done now.
He runs through some income from social basketball as an example, saying that he believes the income is there, but questions where it's being spent.
They run through Boti's line in the paper about Di Campbell heading to Purgatory. He responds by saying that the buck stops somewhere, and that is with the chairperson.
KG asks why people are able to walk away from this. Boti avoids the question to talk about the jobs of Daws, Jackson, Carter, etc.
They talk about the number of committees involved (Boti: "committees take minutes, lose hours").
He talks about money being spent in the wrong places. Some right places in his mind would be development, referees, etc.
He talks about the BASA budgeting potentially being run too often from a best-case scenario, when they could have more luck from a worst-case scenario, and aim to beat those.
Boti thinks that it would be appropriate to make this previous board and past CEOs accountable, especially given that bail-outs had been occuring since 1989.
He wonders if some figures provided to the government have been misleading - particularly with the interoptions between BASA and the Sixers.
He makes the claim that the Sixers being unprofitable is impossible, running through quick figures of income and expenditure. Says that he can only assume that the income from the team could be servicing other loans and expenses within SA basketball. Obviously, however, he doesn't have specifics, otherwise (he says) he'd put it in print.
Wraps it up by saying that he can't see the Sixers being sold.