BEFORE BOUSE
Mission First
Brian Crawford Memorial and the annual Memorial tournament predated Bouse. Bouse was an organizational scaling event—not the origin of the mission.
BCM Sports
User-Group Case Study • Choctaw, Oklahoma
BCM SPORTS
Brian Crawford Memorial Sports
A longitudinal case study of nonprofit mission, municipal sports-facility operations, community programming, tournament networks, officials, financial responsibility and the evolution of statewide youth-sports research.
The Question This Case Study Tests
Can a community nonprofit operate a taxpayer-owned youth-sports complex without eventually being required to behave like a commercial sports business—and if it adopts commercial methods, does that necessarily mean the nonprofit has abandoned its mission?
Mission Drift
Open for testing: did operating pressures displace the founding purpose?
Mission Financing
Did commercial-like sports activity finance and expand the Memorial mission?
Hybrid Institutional Pressure
Did BCM retain its mission while responsibility, revenue rights and risk forced commercial operating behavior?
BCM Sports Only • 2016–June 2018
BCM Sports Snapshot
These scorecards isolate the Kenneth Crawford / BCM Sports records in the supplied Bouse reports. They intentionally exclude the larger outside-provider activity associated with Shootout Baseball, Midwest Sports Productions, Top Gun and other tournament directors.
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Calculated Team Entry Fees
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Teams
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Minimum Games
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Minimum Umpire Assignments
Calculated Team Entry Fees are analytical measurements derived from the research reports. They are not, by themselves, verified revenue, income, profit, compensation, taxable income, bank deposits or audited financial statements.
The Story
Before Bouse → During Bouse → After Bouse
2016–JUNE 2018
Operating Bouse
BCM became the municipal field/program operator, administering community programming inside a network of tournament producers, officials, municipal obligations and a separate concession structure.
AFTER BOUSE
Experience Becomes Research
The Bouse experience was followed by facility development, comparative research, Pre-Game dashboards, practitioner discussions, AI USSSA and the Hidden Valley research architecture.
Actual Bouse Sports Complex Images
The Place Where the Case Unfolded
Operating Architecture
One Public Facility. Multiple Roles.
BCM Sports
Municipal field/program operator; community programming; BCM/Memorial events; and gate/official responsibilities depending on event arrangement.
City of Choctaw
Owner of the taxpayer-funded Bouse Sports Complex and municipal contracting authority.
Separate Concession Operator
Concession activity was structurally separated from BCM's field/program operation.
Shootout Baseball / Rick Glasser
Outside tournament-provider relationship for baseball.
Midwest Sports Productions / Jeremy McDowell
Outside tournament-provider relationship for softball.
Eddie Woods / UIC Model
Officials recruitment, development, evaluation, assignment and management.
Association is not allocation. An event associated with Bouse, BCM and an outside tournament provider does not establish how every dollar was divided. Allocation requires independent contractual, settlement, banking or accounting evidence.
What Success Looked Like
What BCM Built at Bouse
Community League Programming
Recurring local and regional youth programming—not a tournament-only model.
Tournament Programming
BCM/Memorial events alongside specialized outside tournament providers.
Officials Development
Recruitment, training, evaluation, assignment and management through a UIC-centered model.
Regional Tournament Network
Shootout Baseball for baseball and Midwest Sports Productions for softball.
Operational Scale
Gate, leagues, tournaments, officials and municipal-usage responsibilities created a substantially larger operation.
Memorial Mission
The sports operation remained connected to the underlying Brian Crawford Memorial purpose.
A Critical Distinction
BCM Sports Activity ≠ All Bouse Activity
BCM Sports Only
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155 teams • 436 minimum games • 805 minimum umpire assignments in the Kenneth Crawford / BCM-directed report records.
Bouse Ecosystem During BCM
Bouse also hosted documented activity associated with Shootout Baseball, MSP/Top Gun and other directors. BCM operating the facility does not mean BCM received every team entry fee associated with events at Bouse.
Financial-Flow Architecture
Where Could a Family's Money Go?
Team Entry Fee
→ BCM or outside tournament producer, depending on the event.
Gate
→ Event operator under the applicable arrangement.
Concessions
→ Separate concession operator.
Facility Usage
→ City of Choctaw under the municipal relationship.
Officials
→ Umpire workforce as a core event-production expense.
Sanctioning
→ Applicable sanctioning/registration structure.
Association is not allocation. One taxpayer-owned complex can generate multiple simultaneous financial streams controlled by different actors.
Officials Workforce Sub-Case
Building an Officials Program
Eddie Woods / UIC Structure
BCM's operating history describes an officials system built around recruitment, training, evaluation, assignment and management.
From Local Problem to Statewide Research
Bouse staffing pressures → Pre-Game officials analysis → Jeremy McDowell practitioner discussion → Hidden Valley minimum umpire assignments → professional workforce research.
Financial Anatomy
Large Throughput. Small Year-End Residual.
2017
Total Income$324,625.06
Gate Income$214,950.40
Umpire Expense$123,707.00
Usage Fees$36,185.00
Donation Expense$125,050.00
Net Income$1,464.29
2018
Total Income$292,604.69
Gate Income$210,923.90
Umpire Expense$99,365.00
Usage Fees$18,435.00
Donation Expense$150,380.00
Net Income$158.66
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2017–2018 Donation-Expense Entries
Kenneth Crawford identifies these combined accounting entries as money donated/deposited into the Brian Crawford Memorial Fund. The page preserves the accounting label and stated destination separately.
Success, Challenge & Institutional Pressure
Commercial Methods ≠ Commercial Mission
Mission Drift
Open for testing. Did municipal facility operations gradually displace the founding charitable purpose?
Mission Financing
Strongly plausible. Did commercial-like sports operations finance and expand the Memorial mission?
Hybrid Institutional Pressure
Strongly plausible. Did BCM retain its mission while being required to behave commercially because responsibility, revenue rights and risk were fragmented?
How the BCM–Bouse Relationship Ended
Documented Municipal Record vs. Operator Account
Documented Municipal Record
The City RFP, BCM scope-of-services record and termination-for-professional-services document anchor the institutional chronology.
Operator's First-Person Account
Kenneth Crawford's recorded recollections provide context about operational challenges, relationships and his understanding of the departure. Those recollections are treated as testimony and remain distinct from documented City action or independently established motive.
Evidence rule: documented action may be stated as fact; motive and causation require independent support.
Documented Chronology
From Opportunity to Departure—and What Followed
PRE-BOUSE
Memorial, Tournament & Nonprofit Foundation
The Memorial mission and annual event history establish BCM before municipal facility operations.
2016
BCM Begins Operating at Bouse
BCM moves into recurring facility programming and develops outside tournament-provider and officials relationships.
2017
Operations Reach Scale
Financial and operating records show substantial gate, officials, municipal-usage and charitable-transfer activity.
SPRING 2018
Final BCM Operating Period
The spring Bouse report captures sanctioned activity before the governance break.
JUNE 2018
Departure from Bouse
The City termination document anchors the departure section. Interpretation of motive remains separate from the documented City action.
OCTOBER 15, 2024
Later Management Transition
City Council minutes document authorization for negotiations with OYBA, LLC dba Big Show Productions for management of City sports complexes.
Post-BCM Bouse History • 2018 Summer–2026
What Happened After BCM Left Bouse?
The departure of BCM Sports did not end sanctioned tournament activity at Bouse. The annual reports show a continuing and later expanding Bouse-related event network under changing directors and governance arrangements.
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2018 Summer Calculated Team Entry Fees
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2024 Reported Bouse-Related Activity
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2024 Teams
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2024 Minimum Umpire Assignments
Post-BCM Bouse-Related Calculated Team Entry Fee Trend
Later annual totals can include Bouse-associated multi-facility events. The chart represents the documented Bouse-related event network, not revenue occurring exclusively at Bouse.
| USSSA Season / Period | Calculated Team Entry Fees | Baseball | Softball | Teams | Min. Games | Min. Umpire Assignments | Facilities | Directors |
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| 2018 Summer | $6,960 | $2,470 | $4,490 | 41 | 115 | 203 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | $279,083 | $82,011 | $197,072 | 989 | 3,109 | 5,542 | 9 | 6 |
| 2020 | $218,238 | $85,725 | $132,513 | 753 | 2,539 | 4,391 | 10 | 6 |
| 2021 | $278,098 | $112,155 | $165,943 | 994 | 3,333 | 6,503 | 11 | 4 |
| 2022 | $306,376 | $78,750 | $227,626 | 831 | 2,901 | 5,674 | 7 | 3 |
| 2023 | $374,043 | $125,367 | $248,676 | 1,144 | 3,503 | 6,690 | 18 | 7 |
| 2024 | $442,022 | $133,046 | $308,976 | 1,269 | 3,496 | 6,687 | 13 | 7 |
| 2025 | $397,773 | $58,344 | $339,429 | 931 | 2,878 | 5,739 | 12 | 5 |
| 2026 | $410,382 | $30,723 | $379,659 | 820 | 2,847 | 5,619 | 9 | 5 |
Important scope qualification. Beginning in the post-BCM years, many records identify Bouse together with one or more satellite facilities. These annual totals describe the documented Bouse-related event network; they are not proof that every dollar, team, game or umpire assignment occurred exclusively on Bouse's physical fields. Association is not allocation.
SUMMER 2018
Immediate Governance Transition
The July 13–14, 2018 report records $6,960 in calculated activity, 41 teams, 115 minimum games and 203 minimum umpire assignments, with Missy Jennings identified as the tournament director.
2019–2024
Multi-Director Expansion
The reports identify a growing network of tournament directors and associated facilities. Big Show Productions becomes increasingly prominent in softball while Rick Glasser/Shootout Baseball remains a recurring baseball producer.
OCTOBER 15, 2024
Management Negotiations
Choctaw City Council minutes document authorization for the City Manager and City Attorney to enter contract negotiations with OYBA, LLC, doing business as Big Show Productions, for management of City sports complexes.
Post-BCM Annual Research Reports
Research Evolution
Bouse Became a Research Laboratory
Operational problems became research questions. Research questions became variables. Those variables ultimately became part of a statewide research architecture.
Operational Experience
Facility control • tournament directors • gate • concessions • officials • usage fees • community programming.
Pre-Game Phase
Exploratory dashboards • economic-impact models • officials analysis • comparative facility research • Jeremy McDowell practitioner discussion.
Hidden Valley 2001–2026
Structured reconstruction of events, teams, games, officials, directors, facilities, municipalities and calculated financial activity.
Primary Source Library
Read the Documents
Go beyond the summary. Review the underlying nonprofit records, BCM financial documents, City of Choctaw records, BCM-era Bouse reports and post-BCM annual research reports used to build this longitudinal case study.
BCM Sports User-Group Summary
Start with the concise user-group research overview.
Comprehensive Executive Summary V2
Read the deeper longitudinal BCM/Bouse analysis.
Primary Report
BCM Sports User Group Summary
Open PDFComprehensive Case Study
BCM Sports Bouse Comprehensive Executive Summary V2
Open PDFOrigins / Nonprofit
2010 Brian Crawford Memorial Complex 501c3 2010
Open PDFLongitudinal Memorial History
Brian Crawford Memorial Event Report 2001-2026
Open PDFBCM Financial Record
BCM Financial Activity 2017 Final
Open PDFBCM Financial Record
BCM Financial Activity 2018
Open PDFCity of Choctaw Record
Bouse Sports Complex Request For Proposal
Open PDFCity of Choctaw Record
Scope of Services and Responsibilities of BCM
Open PDFCity of Choctaw Record
Termination for Professional Services
Open PDFBCM-Era Facility Report
Bouse Sports Complex Facility Report 2016
Open PDFBCM-Era Facility Report
Bouse Sports Complex Facility Report 2017
Open PDFBCM-Era Facility Report
Bouse Sports Complex Facility Report 2018 Spring
Open PDFLater Governance Record
OYBA 2024-10-15 Regular Meeting Minutes
Open PDFPost-BCM Annual Facility Report
Bouse Sports Complex Facility Report 2018 Summer
Open PDFPost-BCM Annual Facility Report
Bouse Sports Complex Facility Report 2019
Open PDFPost-BCM Annual Facility Report
Bouse Sports Complex Facility Report 2020
Open PDFPost-BCM Annual Facility Report
Bouse Sports Complex Facility Report 2021
Open PDFPost-BCM Annual Facility Report
Bouse Sports Complex Facility Report 2022
Open PDFPost-BCM Annual Facility Report
Bouse Sports Complex Facility Report 2023
Open PDFPost-BCM Annual Facility Report
Bouse Sports Complex Facility Report 2024
Open PDFPost-BCM Annual Facility Report
Bouse Sports Complex Facility Report 2025
Open PDFPost-BCM Annual Facility Report
Bouse Sports Complex Facility Report 2026
Open PDFThe duplicate WordPress copies of the 2016, 2017 and 2018 Spring reports are intentionally omitted. Each underlying report is linked only once. The Post-BCM series now includes 2018 Summer through 2026.
Open Research Questions
What We Still Don't Know
Memorial Fund Transfers
The accounting entries and Crawford's identification of their destination are documented in the case record; underlying bank/fund records would provide an additional corroborating layer.
Post-BCM Tournament Deposits
Director names and calculated activity are documented. The USSSA dataset alone does not establish the destination account for tournament withdrawals.
Multi-Facility Allocation
Association is documented. Financial allocation among Bouse and satellite facilities is not established without independent evidence.
Municipal Decision-Making
Official City actions can be documented. Motive should not be inferred without supporting evidence.
Research Evolution
From Memorial Mission to Statewide Architecture
Brian Crawford Memorial→Annual Memorial Tournament→Chickasha→BCM Sports / Bouse→Seminole State / BCM Sports Complex→Comparative Facility Research→Pre-Game→AI USSSA→Hidden Valley 2001–2026
Methodological Expansion
Why a User-Group Profile Is Different
Facility Profile
Asks: What documented activity is associated with this sports facility?
Director Profile
Asks: What publicly documented activity is associated with this tournament director?
User-Group Profile
Asks: How does a community organization interact with facilities, municipalities, tournament producers, officials, families and financial streams over time?
BCM Sports serves as a prototype longitudinal User-Group Summary within the evolving Hidden Valley research architecture.
Methodology & Evidentiary Boundaries
What This Case Establishes—and What It Does Not
Supported by the supplied record
BCM's nonprofit history, documented financial statements, Bouse operating responsibilities, identified tournament-provider relationships, calculated report activity, City termination record and the later 2024 City Council management-negotiation action.
Not established by calculated data alone
Actual outside-provider receipts, profit, compensation, taxable income, bank ownership, allocation of multi-facility proceeds or ultimate disposition of funds without independent evidence.
Independent research notice. This page is an analytical publication for research, education, transparency and public-interest purposes. Calculated figures are research measurements, not audits, tax determinations, forensic-accounting conclusions, legal findings or allegations. Identification of an individual or organization does not itself imply wrongdoing or liability.