BTHL Survey - Return #19

Received: April 02, 2002 12:21am

    1. Your Position: Team Official (Coach/Mgr/Scheduler)
      • If other, please identify: No response
    2. Your Association/Team: Louisville Youth Hockey Assn
    3. If representing a team:
      • Your age classification: Bantam
      • Your level: A
    4. Overall, how would you rate your experience with the BTHL? Good
    5. How would you rate the overall competition within the division during regular season play? Excellent (well balanced)
      • Additional comments:
        The Bantan A Bluegrass was very competitive. Columbus started the season dominating most teams. By Christmas... Indy became the dominating force. By the end of the season, no team wanted to face Louisville in the tournament
    6. Scheduling:
      1. Overall, how would you rate the Scheduling, when games scheduled, length of season, etc? Poor
      2. Did you attend the September 15, 2001 Scheduling Meeting in Dayton? Yes
      3. When are your team tryouts/selections held?
        April (Core Selection) Final Tryouts... Mid August This year will probably only hold August Tryouts
      4. If there were a perfect date for the Scheduling Meeting, when would it be? 1st weekend in Sept. is fine
      5. Other comments on Scheduling:
    7. Age groups/divisions:
      1. Our intent is to maintain our current system of allowing 6 "2nd year" players to roster with "A" teams for next year. We also intend to grant exceptions to that rule in situations where there is a limited pool of participants or if the team is 2nd or 3rd in line to select players. How would you describe your position on this rule? Moderately in favor
      2. Please provide us with your opinion, especially if you have strong feelings one way or another.
      3. We have a tradition of seperating our given divisions geographically when we reach a total of 10-12 teams. Would you like to see that break point go: Higher
    8. Tournament:
      1. How would you rate the end of season Tournament? Good
      2. Plans are already underway for next year's tournament. One possible change being considered is the replacement of consolation games with a consolation bracket for 1st round losers. (Please refer to sample brackets linked from "News" section on our website) Would you be in favor of this change? Yes
      3. Consideration is being given to the addition of a "Bronze Medal" game for the two losers in the Semi-Final games. If your team were in that position would you want to participate in such a game? Yes
      4. Plans for the Tournament were discussed at the September Scheduling Meeting and were discussed at subsequent BTHL Board meetings. Updates were posted on the BTHL Web page with brackets, game times, hotel information, fees, etc.
        • Did you check the Web page for updates? Yes
        • Do you think you were sufficiently kept informed about the tournament? No
      5. Other comments on the tournament:
        Lvl Bantam A finished with 5th best record. Received the 6th seed... had beaten every team in the league at least once. Finished the regular season very strong. Won the lower bracket but never had a chance to play for the championship. The players were very disappointed
    9. BTHL Home Page:
      1. How would you rate it? Excellent
      2. What have you liked about it?
        I thought the Web Master did a great job of updating the site. Game results were usually posted within 24 hrs.
      3. What could be improved?
        All teams should report game results within 72 hrs. If games are canceled, the web site should be notified. One team had already finished regular season play and another team was showing 10 games to play on the first of February.
      4. Other comments:
        Post more USA Hockey Tournaments on the web site. We had a really hard time trying to find out of town tournaments. We only played in three... Nashville, Cleveland and of course, Silver Stick.
    10. BTHL Administration:
      1. We've eliminated most mailings this year. Is the website sufficient to keep you informed with what's going on in the BTHL? Yes
      2. Have you seen/read the minutes of the BTHL Board Meetings? No
      3. Have you seen/read the BTHL Rules & Regulations? Yes
      4. Woud you be in favor of making submission of game stats mandatory? (goals, assists, saves, penalties) Maybe
      5. Other comments regarding communication:
        Most teams do not want to post their stats because they are afraid it will draw attention to thier key players.
    11. Volunteers:
      1. We would like to add "Level Directors" to help enforce Roster compliance and resolve scheduling issues during the season. With enough volunteers we hope to have seperate individuals responsible for each age group and possibly each division. Would you be willing to volunteer for such a position? No
      2. Returning officers for the 2002-03 season are filling most board positions. However, please indicate if you might be interested in filling a board position, volunteers will not be turned away. Committees are always in need. Not interested
      3. If interested please provide a phone# or some other way to contact you: No response
      4. The BTHL is run solely with volunteers from member organizations. In some cases, board members don't have players in the league. Do you have any suggestions on how the BTHL can better identify volunteers for board positions and committees?
    12. Any general / other comments:
      What the possibility of holding a few "BTHL Invitational Tournaments"? Some possible dates would be 1)Season opener... late October. 2) Thanksgiving weekend... warm-up for Silver Stick 3) Christmas Break Send an invitation to all MId Am / Midwest organizations. There are plenty of BTHL organization asking to hold the year end tournamnet... why not ask them to host one of these others.
    13. Your Name/Address/Phone/e-mail (optional):
      Forrest Holger 2511 Eastwood Circle Crestwood Ky 40014 (502)243-3263 fho1242286@aol.com
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