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<blockquote data-quote="j&#039;nuh" data-source="post: 817804" data-attributes="member: 55446"><p>I agree a lot with this post: change has to come from the grassroots and youth upwards, otherwise the national team suffers, and everyone gets angry about it.</p><p></p><p>I disagree that the quota system will not achieve anything though. I think it will, although I also think that the government has gone about things in the wrong way.</p><p></p><p>Any change in any organisation costs money. It will be expensive for SARU to effectively reinvent their youth system in order to rebalance the opportunities in the sport. They will need to buy land, infrastructure, new staff. They will need to build excellence programs in new schools. They will need to offer more scholarships. Their current setup is the process that they have arrived at after years of development. They may need to stop funding these successful programs to re-divert funds into riskier programs. There is absolutely no interest on SARU's behalf of creating a more egalitarian society: to get the same results that they are already getting, they will need to invest more heavily than they currently are. (I think that the SA government should have helped here.) This is why I cannot believe that SARU will ever, of their own volition, make fundamental changes to their systems. If left alone, I think that they will make token gestures to keep people happy, which is somewhat understandable. </p><p></p><p>The quota system forces SARU to make these changes, to adapt or suffer. I would be surprised if the quota system hasn't had a profound effect on the inner workings of SARU. It would be sheer incompetence on SARU's part if it hadn't.</p><p></p><p>However, I think the time scales were completely wrong. SARU needed to be given the time to have had a generation of players go completely through the new system. I'd have given them a 10-15 year grace period before the quotas came in. It would have been reasonable to have expected SARU to have made the necessary changes and seen the benefits of it by that point.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="j'nuh, post: 817804, member: 55446"] I agree a lot with this post: change has to come from the grassroots and youth upwards, otherwise the national team suffers, and everyone gets angry about it. I disagree that the quota system will not achieve anything though. I think it will, although I also think that the government has gone about things in the wrong way. Any change in any organisation costs money. It will be expensive for SARU to effectively reinvent their youth system in order to rebalance the opportunities in the sport. They will need to buy land, infrastructure, new staff. They will need to build excellence programs in new schools. They will need to offer more scholarships. Their current setup is the process that they have arrived at after years of development. They may need to stop funding these successful programs to re-divert funds into riskier programs. There is absolutely no interest on SARU's behalf of creating a more egalitarian society: to get the same results that they are already getting, they will need to invest more heavily than they currently are. (I think that the SA government should have helped here.) This is why I cannot believe that SARU will ever, of their own volition, make fundamental changes to their systems. If left alone, I think that they will make token gestures to keep people happy, which is somewhat understandable. The quota system forces SARU to make these changes, to adapt or suffer. I would be surprised if the quota system hasn't had a profound effect on the inner workings of SARU. It would be sheer incompetence on SARU's part if it hadn't. However, I think the time scales were completely wrong. SARU needed to be given the time to have had a generation of players go completely through the new system. I'd have given them a 10-15 year grace period before the quotas came in. It would have been reasonable to have expected SARU to have made the necessary changes and seen the benefits of it by that point. [/QUOTE]
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