BTHL Survey - Return #28

Received: April 03, 2002 11:04pm

    1. Your Position: Team Official (Coach/Mgr/Scheduler)
      • If other, please identify: No response
    2. Your Association/Team: Easton Youth Hockey
    3. If representing a team:
      • Your age classification: PeeWee
      • 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:
    6. Scheduling:
      1. Overall, how would you rate the Scheduling, when games scheduled, length of season, etc? Good
      2. Did you attend the September 15, 2001 Scheduling Meeting in Dayton? Yes
      3. When are your team tryouts/selections held?
        Early June
      4. If there were a perfect date for the Scheduling Meeting, when would it be? Sept 15 is fine
      5. Other comments on Scheduling:
        No real problems except people who expect us to travel 3 hours for a 7am game... Maybe some guidelines on acceptable times?
    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? Strongly Opposed
      2. Please provide us with your opinion, especially if you have strong feelings one way or another.
        Smaller programs do not necessarily have AA programs, even if kids are 2nd year. IT's a matter of skill/ability, not age.
      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: Unchanged
    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? Yes
      5. Other comments on the tournament:
        Move the site occasionally -- Louisville is NOT centrally located relative to most BTHL teams.
    9. BTHL Home Page:
      1. How would you rate it? Excellent
      2. What have you liked about it?
        Up to date information, Stats, Standings
      3. What could be improved?
        "Forum" is useless - stats are also unless everyone uses them.
      4. Other comments:
        Not all of us use "Microsoft" products -- make the site vendor neutral - If you don't know how, ask for help.
    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? Yes
      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) Yes
      5. Other comments regarding communication:
        The stats and standings reports need to be made mandatory, and be completed within 3-4 days of the games.
    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? Yes
      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. Maybe, contact me at a later date
      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?
        Call for volunteers during the scheduling meeting, or just after - while the people are there.
    12. Any general / other comments:
      The ref's in Dayton are really, really biased -- No ref should be an officer of one of the associations playing... There are THREE different associations there -- let him ref the OTHER associations games. They should at least TRY to look impartial - sitting with the team between games and chatting up the coaches is not impartial.
    13. Your Name/Address/Phone/e-mail (optional):
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