Any scholarship awards not applied for within one year from high school graduation and/or receipts have not been turned in for college expense reimbursement will be returned to the Texas High School Bass Association’s general account.

Hope this answers your questions. Yes we have assets as far as equipment(trailers and equipment to run 3 events per weekend including live release tanks).

Correct, any scholarship money not collected is returned to the general account after 1 year of graduation. So if you are a freshman the money is placed aside until 1 year after graduation and then it is returned to the general account. It is then to be used for equipment such as trailers, scales, etc…to run these events. Whatever is left from that is put into the account to be used for the payout at that years events.

Ya’ll have a good day. Continue on if you will.


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One of the easiest ways to have a “non-profit” is to keep the earnings and call them salaries.

I’m hoping one of the captains posts a video to YouTube wirh pro tips on how to avoid being struck by lightning while continuing to fish through a thunderstorm. Someone earlier on here said there was skill to it, looking forward to some tips

It seems we are awful worried what others may do. If you want to fish in lightning then go right ahead- no one is forced to.

There was one person earlier in this thread that mentioned there was a skill to dodging lightning bolts while fishing in a thunderstorm, do you have any pro tips, grandbassslayer, how do they do it up in Oklahoma?

hmmm

I’ve almost been hit before- I get the heck off the water, but I could care less what anyone else does

Okay. I want to kind of sum up this 12 page thread. THSBA is a 501 (c) charitable entity setup to schedule and manage high school bass fishing tournaments. They have no certification through the schools or the state ie. UIL. They collect money from the entrants and sponsors and award scholarships based upon a team’s finish. If the scholarship award is not used within a year it goes back to their general fund. Looking at their 990 filings they award about $1 in $3 dollars that they take in to scholarships. I could not identify in their 990 filings how much of that $1 was actually returned to the general fund that was not used by an awarded team in the one year time frame. I’m sure it is a significant amount since a lot of these kids don’t go to college. WOW SOMEONE FIGURED OUT HOW TO MAKE MONEY OFF FISHING. That’s is not the point of this thread. It’s about the fact that money was factored into the decision to continue an event that had the potential to cause harm to its teenage participants. If you don’t think that it was a monetary decision to not postpone this tournament then you don’t live in the same capitalist country that I do.

I figured Starling would be along to explain it.

I will give him credit, he has stuck to his guns for someone that is not being paid.


The best part is only a couple of people are being paid and they have used the premiss to "help the kids" to get others to volunteer their time to do most of the work.

That is the real life definition of "work smarter, not harder".

he’s around

Who ever is the TD and failed to cancel this event or delay it till storms moved out should never be near a high school tournament. Putting kids lives at risk should never happen.

Gimme a break- I missed the part where the boat captains and kids were forced to go fish. If anything it’s a teaching moment for the kids- personal responsibility, doing the right thing even if it doesn’t benefit you, etc.

This thread is better than the FFS sonar ones and BM threads

Ultimately, its the boat captains and parents responsibility,,,,,IMO