Rumor has it that there will be wholesale changes once BSA take over soon

I'm not sure if this has been discussed before but is/was there anything in the tender process to say that existing contracts with players and coaches need to be honoured.

For example if the new owners decided they didn't want player X or coach Y, can they sack them or do they have to honour existing contracts?

Does anyone know how long each player and the coaches have been signed for?

87766, what got basketball into this situation was the fact a multimillion $$ sporting business was governed by mums and dads who lacked the know how and/or stakeholdership to run such an organisation.

Junior basketball / clubs have very little to do with the debt of BSA. Alot of those with 2nd agendas see this as an opportunity to bring in quick changes to suit themselves under the guise that local basketball needs RESTRUCTURE.

Managements NUMBER 1 priority needs to be to support the controllers in offloading the 36ers then take a calm, rational, long term, strategic approach to looking at what will be their core business IE Developing grassroots basketball across the state - which from what I have seen does not appear to happening. "Basketball people" stuffed up the 6ers now that is out of our are hands we are gonna stuff up junior/senior district basketball. Bring on SOCCER!!

Barry Richardson wasn't a mum or a dad he was a business man brought in to restructure basketball of South Oz into the current BASA format. He was hired as a general manager he wasn't a 'basketball' person. It was under his direction that basketball owned Apollo and sold it to build the dome.

Many basketball people who have come to work for BASA over the years have come from a professional background.

The notion of mums and dads running it is so misleading and an easy blame.

we are in debt, because of the dome and the reasons are many and varied if dunlap hadn't cut so many players like smyth on a no cut contract, if we didn't pay the coaches and arm and leg, if we hadn't incurred two salary cap breach fines MAYBE we might have had to pay off more than interest only payments on the dome over the past decade.

Higgins, and Sanders, and now Daw are not basketball dads but business men brought in manage a business.

cause Goitre when you continue to rob peter to pay paul, you eventually become unstuck

87776, I know what you are saying but you miss my point.

Who did the management answer to? Who puts the board in place and holds them accountable? Who were the "shareholders" in BASA?

IMO: The shareholders did not have the skills, time, knowledge, vested financial interest to ask the right questions, hold management accountable and offer strategic support of a multi Million $$, professional sporting organisation. BSA's issues come from this and not the debt of some local clubs to BSA or the structure of local basketball as some people would like us to beleive.

they were still probably paying out contracts plus if the sixers and lightning both lose money they were paying them.

plus they were paying for wayville (and pasadena?)

PLus my biggest bug bear the big salaries paid to 'fairy tale' Phil and his intrepid offsider

Goitre,

Your level of respect is disturbing if for no other reason that as a fan, you are probably not alone.

The Dome was built on the basis that the then BASA management believed they would be able to supplement the basketball activities at the Dome with other activities.

There were a few activities organised in the first year included a week long circus.

Unfortunately the then government had to protect the Government owned Adelaide Entertainment Centre and forced BASA's hand by not allowing concerts. IMO This decision BY THE THEN STATE GOVERNMENT is the reason the Dome debt has never been able to be pad off. I find it ironic that the government act as saviours of a situation they themselves helped cause.

To suggest the BASA staff would be incapable of hosting concerts or other activities at the Dome is purley insulting of the current management. The people there now are all hard working and capable staff members who do not deserve your attitude due to previous managements.

The current staff IMO could have brought the fanbase back as has been shown by their appointment of Isaac to run the sixers website once again.

Remember the powerbase and current CEO are very different to that of 8 months ago.

Wayville is a small issue and the coaching salaries have already been dealt with so I suggest you remove the chip of your shoulder and look forward instead of blaming the current management for past mistakes.

The point everyone is trying to make is that even with the concert concession and government support this figure is nowhere near the amount that could have been generated had the Dome been open to use for Entertainment purposes as well as basketball.

IMO everyone else is right, you are not.

The audit report and recommendations are available Lockstock. This highlights where BSA loose its money. The 36ers and Dome have been a noose around BSAs kneck. 36ers/dome have potential to succeed under private ownership by high networth, networked, talented and knowledgable individuals. EG: Eddy Groves, Mark Cowen and now hopefully the Shahins.

"Barry Richardson wasn't a mum or a dad he was a business man brought in to restructure basketball of South Oz into the current BASA format. He was hired as a general manager he wasn't a 'basketball' person. It was under his direction that basketball owned Apollo and sold it to build the dome."


That last sentence is a very, very interesting one. It seems to contradict some of your points in earlier sentences.