Doctoral Research Archive

Integrity of the Game vs. Economic Impact – The Oklahoma Business Plan

Kenneth R. Crawford, M.S. Sport Administration

Ongoing Research (2001–2025)

This private portal is a comprehensive repository of research, data, and case studies supporting the doctoral dissertation examining financial practices, governance, and transparency within Oklahoma youth sports. It draws on 25 years of investigative work and firsthand experience operating and consulting municipal sports complexes.

Executive Summary

• Analysis of USSSA Baseball & Softball Event Financials (2001–2025) Download Executive Summary
• Taxpayer-Owned Facility Oversight & Director Payments | Download Executive Summary
• Instrument of Transfer Land Violations (Lions Club, Shawnee) | Download Executive Summary
• Sales Tax Campaigns and Voter Misrepresentation | Download Executive Summary
• IRS & Attorney General Filings with Supporting Case Numbers | Download Executive Summary
• Case Studies from Moore, Shawnee, Choctaw, Tulsa, Seminole, Chickasha, and Bixby | Download Executive Summary

📂 Case Study Library

• Lions Club Ballfields (Shawnee) – Instrument of Transfer land misuse | Download Executive Summary
• Buck Thomas Complex (Moore) – Oversight of MYBA tournament fees | Download Executive Summary
• Brian Crawford Memorial (Seminole) – 501(c)(3) model and college partnership | Download Executive Summary
• Bouse Sports Complex (Choctaw) – Municipal contract abuse and turnover | Download Executive Summary
• Savage Park, Hilti Park & LaFortune Park (Tulsa) – Little League lease oversight & city / county management | Download Executive Summary
• Chickasha Sports Complex – Municipal Control, Director Conflict, and Financial Displacement | Download Executive Summary
• Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Proposal – Abandoned model vs. revived framework | Download Executive Summary

Each case includes site-specific financial summaries, land use history, and reform proposals. Request access to full case files here.

📂 Doctoral Lecture Library

• Instrument of Transfer | Download Executive Summary
• City of Shawnee Records Request
• City of Moore, OK Records Request
• Pottawatomie County Records Request

Elected Officials

• Senator Shane Jett: Integrity of the Game Attorney General Ruling Interpretation Request (2-2-2023)

• Oklahoma Govenor Kevin Stitt Email Request (2-7-2023)

• Commissioner Melissa Dennis Pottawatomie County Inquiry (5-19-2023)

• Oklahoma Govenor Kevin Stitt Response (12-18-2023)

• Senator Shane Jett: Integrity of the Game Senator Shane Jett (2-16-2024)

• Office of Attorney General State of Oklahoma Citizens Complaint Oklahoma Youth Sports (2-23-2024)

• Office of Attorney General State of Oklahoma Case Number Citizens Complaint CC 2024-127  (April 27, 2024)

• Senator Shane Jett: Legislative Proposal Reforming Youth Sports Governance and Ensuring Transparency in Oklahoma (9-14-2024)

• IRS Form 211 Whistleblower Submission Package (11-17-2024)

Lions Club Ballfields

• Lions Club Ballfields Shawnee, Oklahoma (1998)

City of Shawnee, Oklahoma

• Mayor Ed Bolt & Kenneth Crawford Text Discussions (2020-2024)

• City of Shawnee: Records Request (8-28-2024)

• City of Shawnee: Records Request (Fee of $11,283.00): Cause Excessive of the Essential Function of the Public Body (3-12-2025)

• Constituant Evaluation of Andrea Weckmueller Behringers Tenure as City Manager (2024)

• Evolution of the Shawnee Regional Park Project (2002-2004)

• Financial Analysis 4.25% Rate: A Holistic Legal and Community Impact Study (2005-2006)

• Records Request #24-327 : Processor, Grower, and Dispensary Categories (9-30-2024)

• Systematic Digitization of Historical Meeting Minutes for Enhanced Governance Transparency (March 3, 2025)

• Legal and Civic Narratives in Shawnee: A Research Update (March 5, 2025)

• Municipal Financial Data Extraction and Local Governance (March 6, 2025)

City of Shawnee, Oklahoma Financial Statements

• Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR): In-depth Analysis Summary (2005-2006)

• City of Shawnee, Oklahoma: FY10 Audited Financial Statements (2010)

• City of Shawnee, Oklahoma: Reports Related To Financial Statements Single-Audit (2014-2015)

• City of Shawnee, Oklahoma: Reports Related To Financial Statements Single-Audit (June 30, 2019)

Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma

• Commissioner Melissa Dennis Pottawatomie County Inquiry (5-19-2023)

• Pottawatomie County Court Clerk Audit Report 2006: NotebookLM Podcast

• Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma County Audit-2006-2015: NotebookLM Podcast

• Pottawatomie County Operational Audit 2008-2010, 2016, 2017: NotebookLM Podcast

• Pottawatomie County Treasurer Statutory Report October 2019: NotebookLM Podcast

• Pottawatomie County Facilities Authority Audit 2022: NotebookLM Podcast

• Pottawatomie County Development Authority Audit 2023: NotebookLM Podcast

• Pottawatomie County Health Board Fiscal Audit 2013-2023 Fiscal Audit: NotebookLM Podcast

• Fiscal Governance in Focus: Advanced Insights into Pottawatomie County Audit Reports (2006–2015)

• Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma Financial Audit 2018-2023: NotebookLM Podcast

• Pottawatomie County Financial Audit: Briefing Document (FY 2018-2023)

• Pottawatomie County Board of Commissioners Estimate of Needs Financial Statements Audit (2013-2024): NotebookLM Podcast

• Records Request: Pottawatomie County Annual School Election 2.14.2012 (9-4-2024)

• Records Request: Pottawatomie County Open Records Request 3.2.1999 (9-4-2024)

• Pottawatomie County Assessment Property Record Card Tax Year 2026: Pottawatomie County Records Request (1-31-2025)

• Baseball Heaven Partnership TIF District Development: Pottawatomie County Commissioners

Instrument of Transfer

• No.10739 47 Instrument of Transfer: Pottawatomie County Records Request

• Exposing Discrepancies in Shawnee’s 1947 Instrument of Transfer Land

• Airport Property: Legal, Fiscal, Holistic and Interdisciplinary Review of Shawnee’s Airport Property Management

• Public Stewardship, Economic Transparency, and the Instrument of Transfer Land in Shawnee, Oklahoma

• City of Shawnee Municipal Oversight Instrument of Transfer Land: Analysis and Recommendations

• Pottawatomie County Assessment Property Record Card Tax Year 2026: Pottawatomie County Records Request (1-31-2025)

• Instrument of Transfer: War Assets Administer and City of Shawnee Land Deals, Finances, and a Sports Complex Investigation: NotebookLM Podcast

📂 Instrument of Transfer Land Lease Agreements

• Inflatables
• YMCA
• OBU Land Sale
• Little Theatre Land Sale

Brown Derby

• Brown Derby Legacy Lease Evolution and Land Ownership

Dace Dockery

• Dace Dockery Property Lease Agreement (July 1 2014)

Lions Club Ballfields

• Shawnee Lions Club Ballfields Aerial Photo

Martin Structures

• Shawnee Airport Authority Lease Agreement: Davis Martin Structures (July 1, 2014)

• Davis Martin Structures Lease Memo (July 2, 2014)

Oklahoma Baptist University (OBU)

• Oklahoma Baptist University (OBU) Bond Sale: Resolution No. 6268 and Regional Banking Research

• OBU 25 Year Lease: Doctoral Lecture Research

Pitt Stop

Shawnee Little Theatre

• Shawnee Little Theatre Inc: Appraisal Motion (8-23-2006)

• Shawnee Little Theatre Inc: Appraisal Motion (8-23-2006)

Shawnee Expo Center

• Shawnee Expo Center SCCDA: An In-Depth Analysis (2025)

• Sips Downtown Cafe LLC

Sips Downtown Cafe LLC: City of Shawnee Memorandum (2-14-2013)

• Lease Agreement Drive Thru Coffee Shop (July 1, 2013)

• VanMeter-Lease-Memo Coffee Shop (June 26, 2013)

• YMCA

• Shawnee YMCA Lions Club Lease (August 2013)

• Shawnee YMCA Memo Regarding Lease Lions Club Ballfields (August 14, 2013)

• Shawnee Lions Club Ballfields Aerial Photo

• Troy & Dollie Smith Family YMCA: Dockery Park, Lions Club Park, Milstead Park and Lilac Park in the City of Shawnee Lease Agreement (July 1, 2014)

• Young Men’s Christian Association of Shawnee, INC (YMCA) Memorandum Exercising the Right to Extend the Lease for Fifty (50) years (Feb 19, 2014)

⚖️ Legal Filings & Ethical Reports

• Oklahoma Attorney General Complaint: State-level filing with detailed claims on public corruption (Filed: 2024-04-17, Citizen Complaint CC-2024-127) | Download Attorney General Complain
• IRS Whistleblower Form F-211: Federal filing citing revenue abuse via 501(c)(3) entities (Filed: 2024-12-11 Claim Number: 2025-002158) | Download Executive Summary
• Florida AG vs USSSA: Civil suit settlement (sealed), originally filed to investigate RICO-based financial conduct
• 1st Complaint: 2023-08-27, CASE NO. 6:23-cv-1637-RBD-RMN) | Download Florida AG vs USSSA
• 2nd Amended Complaint: Updated Filed: 2024-04-17, CASE NO. 6:23-cv-1637-RBD-RMN) | Download 2nd Amended Complaint: Florida AG vs USSSA

These filings underpin the case for state-level reform in Oklahoma and national replication of the oversight model built through this dissertation.

Legal Filings & Ethical Reports

• Pre-Draft Flowchart: Integrity of the Game vs Economic Impact (Politics); The Oklahoma Business Plan (2016-2024)

• Pre-Draft: Financial Analysis & Organizational Dynamics: USSSA Tournament Fee Study (Savage Park)

• Pre-Draft: Financial Transparency and Governance in Youth Sports: A Case Study of USSSA and Oklahoma (9-4-2024)

• Pre-Draft: Financial Transparency and Impact of Umpire Compensation Models in Oklahomas Youth Sports USSSA (9-5-24)

• Pre-Draft: Integrity of the Game vs USSSA Area Directors (2016-2024)

• Pre-Draft: Integrity of the Game vs USSSA Facilities (2016-2024)

• Pre-Draft: Integrity of the Game vs Economic Impact (Politics); The Oklahoma Business Plan (2016-2023)

🧪 Research Methodology

• Over 20,000 manually validated tournament entries from USSSA public records
• Financial modeling of team entry fees, umpire costs, and gate revenue by facility
• Use of FOIA/Open Records Act to obtain city budgets, contracts, and sales tax votes
• Economic Impact Revenue generated by Facility, Municipality, County or State
• Replicable model for other states to audit youth sports eco-system and economic impact model

Integrity of the Game vs Economic Impact (Politics): The Oklahoma Business Plan

• Literature Review Economic Impact

• Oklahoma Sports Facilities Market Analysis (2021)

•  Investigation Review Into the Economics and Practices of Oklahoma Youth Sports (10-26-2023)

• Outline: Integrity of the Game vs Economic Impact (Politics): The Oklahoma Business Plan (9-2-2024)

• Pre-Draft Research (2016-2024): Integrity of the Game vs Economic Impact (Politics); The Oklahoma Business Plan (1133 Pages)

• Integrity of the Game vs. Economic Impact: Stakeholder Review & Peer Evaluation Package (5-5-2025)

• Advancing Youth Sports Financial Transparency (March 8, 2025)

•  Reflections on The Journey (March 9, 2025)

• Event Data Integration and Tournament Analysis (March 9, 2025)

• Data Integration and App Update (March 10, 2025)

• Expanding Research Boundaries: USSSA Data Community Collaboration and Facility Accountability (March-11-2025)

• USSSA Data Integration & Public Engagement Insights (March 12, 2025)

•  Enhancing Governance Transparency Through Historical Record Integration and Driving Innovative Community Partnerships for Impactful Nonprofit Initiatives (March 12, 2025)

• Integrity of the Game vs Economic Impact (Politics); The Oklahoma Business Plan: Research Reflections and Progress (March 20, 2025)

• Municipal Finance & Infrastructure Research (March 23, 2025)

• NotebookLM Podcast: Oklahoma Youth Sports: Oversight and Financial Integrity

• Peeling Back the Layers: Quantifying the True Economic Impact of Youth Sports: End-To-End Methodology Constructing a Robust, Transparent Dataset 

• Integrity of the Game vs Economic Impact (Politics); The Oklahoma Business Plan Podcast Series (5-5-2025)

Doctoral Documentation

• Airport Property Transfers Decision (CS 2006-11-20)

Youth Sports Documentation

• Analyzing Financial Transparency in Youth Sports: A Case Study of USSSA Directors Team Entry Fees and Economic Impact (9-3-24)

• Chapter X: Legal Oversight Fiduciary Duty and the Erosion of Public Accountability in Youth Sports Facilities

Baseball Heaven Documentation

• Baseball Heaven: 24 Team Event 1 Quad 4 Fields (2023)

• Baseball Heaven: 56 Team League 1 Quad 4 Fields 2023

• Baseball Heaven: Arvest Bank Proposal (9-12-2024)

• Baseball Heaven: A Field of Dreams and Faith 2025

• Baseball Heaven: Indoor Event Center

• Baseball Heaven: Proposal April 10

• Baseball Heaven: The Road To Williamsport

• Baseball Heaven: Loves Country Store Family Grant Package (9-13-2024)

• Baseball Heaven: MLB Players Association Grant Package Proposal (9-13-2024)

• Baseball-Heaven: Transforming Adversity Into Legacy (3-15-25)

Oklahoma Little League Documentation

• Southwest Regional Little League vs Oklahoma Little League 2024 (Email: Caleb)

• Southwest Regional, Oklahoma Little League, City of Moore Transcript / Discussion (2024)

Moore, OK

• Prepared Financial Statements Moore Youth Baseball Association (MYBA) For the period ended December 31, 2021

• Oklahoma Little League (Moore OK): Data Analysis Research Project “Integrity of the Game, The Oklahoma Business Model

• Buck Thomas Park Field Dimensions (2023)

• Pre Draft: Moore Youth Baseball Association (MYBA) Tournament Analysis Fall 2023

• Pre Draft: Economic Impact Research: MYBA, Lincoln County Baseball and Shootout Baseball Analysis

• Pre Draft: Integrity of the Game vs Buck Thomas Complex Moore, OK (2016-2023)

• Pre Draft: Integrity of the Game vs Matt Purser – Buck Thomas Complex Moore, OK (2016-2023)

Brian Crawford Memorial

• Brian Crawford Memorial 501c3 Tax Exempt Status

• Brian Crawford Memorial Memorandum of Agreement

• BCMSC-SSCEF Balance Request Documentation

• Mee Hoge Retainer Letter (5-4-2023)

• Expanding Community Partnerships for the Brian Crawford Memorial Scholarship: A-Strategic Discussion Community Foundations of Oklahoma (3-12-2025)

Brian Crawford Memorial Sports Complex

• BCM Sports – Sport Structure Proposed (11-19-2021)

BCM SPORTS INC

• BCM Sports: Not for Profit Certificate of Incorporation

• BCM Sports: League Economic Impact (2016-18)

American Legion

• BCM Sports: OK Kids and American Legion

Commissioners Land Office State of Oklahoma

• Commissioners Land Office of the State of Oklahoma (4-29-2023)

Crawford Consulting Enterprises

• Crawford Consulting Enterprises: State of Oklahoma Certificate of Limited Liability Company

My Own Prison

• Picking Up The Pieces

Shootout Baseball

• Pre Draft: Economic Impact Youth Baseball Shootout Baseball (2-2-2023)

Lincoln County OK Kids Baseball

• Integrity of the Game vs Lincoln County OK Kids (2019-2022)

• Pre-Draft: Lincoln County Baseball Association (OK KIDS) Study

Tri-County Basketball

• Integrity of the Game vs Tri-County Basketball (2016-2023)

📬 Contact & Support

To request access to restricted case files, submit an official inquiry, or support the project:

• Email: kenneth@bcmsports.net
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All content on this page is part of an active doctoral dissertation. For educational and academic purposes only. Do not cite without permission. © Kenneth R. Crawford.