Certainly an interesting question and my answer would be there is room for both competitions. SEABL seems to be for the larger associations wanting to play in an interstate competition, where the Big V caters to the medium and small associations in Victoria and are the state league.Both serve their purpose.
SEABL have always been strong but the perception is the Big V has improved greatly in the past few years.Competition wise the top level of their Championship and Youth Competitions has improved dramatically as has their media.
Both SEABL and Big V have their own net tv shows, and Big V has Overtime Magazine which is a really good read. Also earlier in the year the Big V signed a whole heap of new sponsors, and had a very well received All-Star 20/20 kind of game during the National Junior Classic.
Many CEO/Managers now have blogs on their websites to give people a different perception and an inside look at how things are going.

Both SEABL and Big V are great leagues and the idea the two are competing is very mid 2000's.

I made some strong comments about the positioning of the BigV a few weeks back. Basically it had a great run through early last decade, fell apart for a couple of years and the current CEO is pulling it back into line. Three different CEO's, maybe four when i think about it.

Happy Days I hadn't thought of it but the BigV approach to media these days is very "in-league", almost immature. Their TV show was good last year and ok this year, if mainly because this year was a much cheaper production.

The SEABL have a very staid approach to media. They produce good stuff, but not very dynamic and hardly edgy, which the BigV have certainly tried. The BigV do probably know how to laugh at themselves a little more - maybe thats the immaturity!.

BigV's TV stuff is better than SEABL's though in my view.

Administration wise, the SEABL would be the most distrusted organsiation I know of. Thats not me saying I don't trust them, they just have a terrible reputation. They are hated here in Victoria, bitterly hated in other states as well.

Their apppoach to/poaching of the Southern Districts club in Brisbane was greeted with vehemence in Qld for example, simply because of the way it was done.

Anon thats just pithy.

I agree some of the BigV's stuff is cringeworthy, but they at least have a crack.

They are solely focused I think on their internal media consumption, and they have the numbers to justify that, because the league is so big.

SEABL are never edgy, and they do vanilla media. But they do it very well and very consistently.

Some of the opinion stuff by BigV, which NO ONE in mainstream basketball is doing, is good.

I agree with hapy days that the current article, from the BigV CEO, is just bizarre, but I recall for example their main writer, Justin Nelson, openly taking the Tigers to task for taking players from teams in finals for a tournament in Ireland. It was controversial, the sort of stuff talked about on forums, but the only basketball website tacking the issue at all was BigV - props to them. Tigers are one of their clubs and they laid it on thick!

Both league's meet deadlines, and you can expect their regular stuff to always be there on the day they say it will and thats a massive part of the game.

Sorry, but BigV's TV stuff is a lot more fun than SEABL, which simply cannot take the piss out of itself, and they have a crack at issues, call people out, create controversy. Thats good media my friend, because they are creating noise.

I had the pleasure once of attending the BigV Awards dinner, 700+ people, huge night out, great audio visual stuff, and while it was not the most respectful night, they proved to me they get one thing totally, which is their league community.

SEABL are very very well run. The BigV is not far behind, and where you are 100% right is that the clubs in the BigV are smaller and not as well resourced as the relative SEBAL clubs, who can generate stuff for themselves.

Mor importantly, these two league's in each others backyard means they work hard - much harder than the other state based leagues. I would rate both well ahead of the other state leagues from what i've seen, perhaps with the exception of some of the stuff the SBL do.

The Big V & SEABL have to try and be professional as they are both competing for the same $$$ & clubs!

Lets face it every other state based comp (ABL/SBL/QBL/Waratah) could take a leaf out of both Big V & SEABL's book as even if you don't like SEABL cause they are too serious are Big V because they poke fun at themselves at least they are both having a crack, which is less than can be said for the other leagues.

Some of the other leagues don't even have media articles or promotions etc to help build a community or brand so if you don’t play ball you wouldn’t even know that they are on!

Tiger Watcher, I like SEABL's stuff, its just vanilla thats all. And a lot of BigV's stuff when they are taking the piss is good, just sometimes it gets a little corny and lowbrow.

Cost of a SEABL program would be between 200k-300k including support staff.