Forestville are partnered with South's domestic league. Sturt has rebranded its league but cant see it being any better than what they had this season

Each club should have its own domestic program, realistically

Basketball SA probably should step in and limit clubs to their own facilities or what their "catchment" area is to run these programs to allow for better diversity and promote the development of all clubs.

Issues arise when kids want to play with their friends and might be at other clubs, other areas, ect.

Norwood being aggressive in this space is smart, lower overheads, more income, greater profit.

We operate in a capitalistic environment; other clubs must improve to compete or risk losing.

We just had a thread on here not long ago about how Woodville is heading back to their 2010 era of exoduses again. BSA should help, but also allow some clubs to fail to some point.

WITH THAT SAID
I believe that with domestic, we should then be reducing the district. There should be a cap of 4 teams per age group at district. This would alleviate pressure for district competition to find refs and court hire, it would alleviate clubs trying to find coaches and could potentially be used as a risk prevention tool.

I believe Sturt ran this model from early 2000s to 2019ish and they saw great results over that time, arguably the best club in the state during that time period.

Thanks Grote
That is all very interesting
I agree that each club should be investing in a program that builds the local area through the pathways but was just interested that the club seem to be trying to out-do each other which I don't think is necessary in Adelaide.

Participation numbers are exceeding supply from what i can see

I am interested in Sturt, what model did they have between 2010 and 2019?
Do you mean restricting Sturt Sabre teams to four per age group & gender?

Eastern has Hills competition which is quite strong.

Domestic is run by the clubs - so they can do their own thing and build their own business etc.

Reason they compete is if they don't they will get out muscled.

My only reservation would be if clubs try to ensure domestic success and deny district opportunities.

Grote 12 - Sturt did not run this "capping" and their success with junior teams was from around early 2000s to 2018 ish.
Sturt probably started their domestic program in this time.

instead of just adding district team after team - directed newer players to a domestic comp.

Less infrastructure required than a district team - finding coaches, cheaper fees, less demand on quality of umpires, bench personnel, training venues, uniform purchase, commitment to 2 trainings a week.

I think all district clubs basically work along the same with their domestic > district pathway now.

I also seem to recall Sturt and Forestville started a domestic comp together initially

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Sturt and Forestville initially started a Sunday afternoon domestic competition as BSA would not allow Saturday comps as church used the facility. It was largely lower division teams instead of a Sunday practice session. So the kids played two game and practiced once. It fell over as Forestville decided that they could make more money charging district fees and not paying for the refs/infrastructure of the Sunday comp which was somewhat disappointing to these lower division team players and families.

But Sturt did start their own Saturday competition to stop the increase of district players as well as allow their own players a second fun game on Saturdays. But this was after having gotten to the point of 50+ district teams. Some players were lost to the club as they still wanted to play district and went to South of Forestville.

I feel Norwood has the correct model of creating Domestic clubs, which was Sturts goal, but was never followed through. Sturt were using Unley HS gym for a while as they had overflow from Pasadena, but this has diminished. Whilst the Norwood league is now putting pressure on other clubs to start their own comps to capture more kids into basketball outside of school times.

PS. Sturt also were running miniball at Pasadena for a while until BSA decided to give it to the high school and it fell down, and then BSA took over the running of the competition.

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