yeah he is... he is a bloody great coach!

What is Sturt Paying him??

What ever Sturt is paying, is between Sturt and Paul. Sturt has shown its focus on development by employing a full time coaching director. Great for basketball.
The more Clubs that follow suit the better, all it takes is to transfer some of the ABA spend to development. Since all clubs are working to a salary cap there should be some spare funds.

But if we dont know what sturt are paying him how can a judgement be made on whether he is worth the dollars being paid.Being fulltime in his job does give him certain advantages over other Jdo's because he is able to put man hours into recruiting, coaching etc, while the other do it in whatever spare time they have from their full time jobs.
But to hear a number of sturt members lately grumbling about the constant pull of country players replacing the city kids i think he should spend more of his time on these kids because he may end up with no teams unless he fills them all with country kids.

Incognito,

Couldn't agree with you more. Aussie Hoops, Domestic Comps, Individual Clinics, School visits. All these things need to generate the income to pay for a full time Basketball operations person at each club.

IMHO as an association we should be using the money that is wasted on the BASA development officers and used by the clubs to help pay for a full time person for each club. Instead of spending $200K on 4 people. Give each club $20K and have them generate another $20K through the above programs and each club could easily have a full time position. So 10 in total.

There would obviously need to be some stipulations.
1/ I feel that the posititon could not go to somebody who is playing ABA. (a salary cap violation)
2/ That person is to report to their club AND Danny O'Brien. To make sure that we maintain the government grants.

Finally, this would help all clubs move forward.

Incognito,

How many clubs run Aussie Hoops??? How many clubs run domestic competitions??? Other than Forestville and Sturt, how many clubs have somebody employed to do these things??? I would say none! And if the COaching Directors are being ratted by their KPI's. I think a few should probably be looking for new employment. If the finals results are anything to go on. Or is this not a KPI. Do some clubs have 'committee members who's kids make their preferred team' as their major KPI?

Anonymous (#24212)

"But to hear a number of sturt members lately grumbling about the constant pull of country players replacing the city kids"

This number of sturt players has grown into a lot more then just a few and insted of paul getting paid why don't sturt use the money to get coachers for most of the lower division teams. Some players havent had a set coach for a number of years

Anonymous(#24272),

Is that practical? Pay someone like Meshcke to be your div 4.2 coach? The guy has just finished a year at the AIS after coaching state teams, junior teams for many years and playing ABL. Is getting coaches like this to coach a 4.2 team practical?

sturt struggle to get lower div coaches just like other clubs,and the domestic comp helps them disguise this fact.
But if he is being paid $ then some of his time should be sourcing lower div coaches for you.
It cant be all well in sturt land at the moment as have seen and heard that a number of div one girls players have moved club this season.

Darn right some of the div one grils have moved and soon it won't just be them. Quite alot of non div 1 and some div 2 players are fed up with the way they are being treated. City South was set up mainly because of how bad the lower team were in both sturt and forestville not just to cut down on the trainings

What!! too hard to develop lower div players!!!!!!!!
Only want to work with the elite,
anyone can develop natural talent
but a true coach can bring out the best in anything!!!!!!!!!!!