Aw Doug you know we all love you.. I did apologize for the hater comment… come on.

I will state this again for everyone. The THSBA board members are all 100% volunteers. We do pay the tournament directors and our office lady. Beyond that we do not collect any monetary reimbursement from the association.

Growing pains, you would think it would be over with the growth. When we go into our summer meeting all we know is what the numbers were last season. We have no idea how many new schools are joining before the first event so all we can do at that point is try to adjust and over the years I feel like we have. When we hit 300 boats a few years back at Lewisville we were taking off by boat numbers and we immediately started trailering events the next event. Then come the following season we split that division. So it is very hard to determine what we are going to have once season starts. Believe it or not we still get 10-25 new schools ever year.

Do I get upset at times , yes and the simple answer is this. There are 3 of us still here that started the THSBA 10 years ago with a small group of kids and schools. For many years we did the tournaments ( me, Tim and Steve Holland) off a flat bed trailer and gave gift cards to everyone. Every expense was on us not the THSBA. So we have been doing this from the get go. My son graduated after the first season, Tim’s son graduated after the 2nd season and Steve has never had his own kids in the association he had started a HS and JR program at Kaufman and that’s how this all started. So I do take offense when people come on here and say we are getting rich, etc..etc.. I do get upset when people that do not know what all we talk about on a weekly basis come on and say we need to do this , we need to do that. Are we perfect. Nope and I apologize for that. We do care and we will try the best we can to make the changes needed to continue on.

This weekend alone we awarded over $60,000 in scholarships and prizes with this season being over $600,000

To see the smiles and high fives from parents and kids all weekend and seeing Seniors that have been with us for the past 4 years makes it all worth it.

I’m not the English major so forgive my grammar and punctuation..

That’s all I have to say. You all continue and carry on and have a great day.

[quote=Douglas J][quote=N2Bass][quote=J.P. Greeson][quote=N2Bass]That limits entries.

I fully expect to see some of the bigger trails to start "high school divisions" in Texas.

There is a market to make some money.

And it's non profit! But just buy a $10 parking pass if you don't mind.

Just follow the select baseball model.

Millionaires to be had soon. I agree.

Parents will spend thousands for a Facebook brag.

Our poor fish are doomed.

Can you Share more recent financials then? The tax return shared a week or two ago showed board members being paid Edit: 2017 , and 33% of entry money being held over in cash at the end of the year. Of course, with only 1 year to look at that isnt enough to make a decision one way or the other.

I fully expect to see some of the bigger trails to start "high school divisions" in Texas.

There is a market to make some money.

MLF and Bassmaster already have high school divisions and host sanctioned tournaments in each state. Bassmaster has their own national tournament and MLF funnels into a national/world tournament hosted by TBF/SAF. It sounds crazy but they had a couple of teams from South Africa last year.

TTZ has a reduced entry fee for adult/youth team. Basschamps also permits adult/youth teams. The big bass formats also permit youth anglers, in fact I think a young man won the boat this year.