Basketball HB, under Hart, he says will embrace the next stage of exerting a lot more energy, especially in schools.
"Our coaches are parents with a car and they sit on the sidelines to do their best."
Trass says the goal is to entice 200 parents to equip them with the necessary tools to become apt coaches with the sporadic input of former and current Hawks to consolidate that process.
"It's really cool that Kirstin Daly-Taylor is coaching the Bay rep girls. It's amazing that someone played professionally and went to the Olympics is involved with them," he says, revealing past elite players Jo Richards and Carley Glock help ex-Tall Fern Daly-Taylor.
Buying the former Wairere Bowling Club at Whitmore Park in Napier to establish a headquarters three years ago was pivotal in their success.
With eight staff they have no qualms should anyone leave because they have the infrastructure to absorb any vacuum.
The move to grassroots four years on the platform of a changed mission and vision worked wonders.
"We bought 30 portable hoops and we broke down big courts to smaller ones," he says, revealing that in turn boosted youngsters' low-scoring games from seven or so to 27 points.
"It's great because kids can play football and not touch the ball in a game but in basketball everyone can score."
A key sense of satisfaction is derived from watching children from lower socio-economic background flourish.
"We're into building basketball in partnership with our communities," he says, impressing the results are evident in Tall Fern Josie Stockill and US university-bound Khaedin Taito already staging clinics here.
With the code spending $100,000 annually in hiring venues, Trass believes establishing an inflatable dome court or a hard variety next to its HQ on adjacent Napier City Council-leased land is viable.
"If nothing comes out of the council then it's a reasonable proposal," he says, after the push for a velodrome seems to have overshadowed basketball's campaign.
A four-court dome, complete with lighting and heating, will cost $1.5 million.
"The upkeep of a dome is cheaper than a standard building and has a 20-year life guarantee," he says, claiming an upgrade will only cost $40,000.
"The other good thing about domes is they are transportable and relocatable."
Trass, who in the 1970s became the first fulltime basketball employee in the country at Hutt Valley, arrived here to become the marketing manager for the then Brierley-owned newspapers before lecturing business studies at the eastern Institute of Technology for 12 years.
When growing up his mother impressed the need to acquire education because sport didn't pay but a grinning Trass says that's not true anymore.
"Steven Adams [Oklahoma City Thunder player] earns more money than [All Black] Daniel Carter and Co."
He feels regrets in sport are inevitable, especially in a minor code where a handful of dedicated staff go beyond the call of duty to serve a community.
"I won't regret the knife-edge management of finances."
It saddens him that despite subsidising costs a significant number of talented youngsters slip through the cracks because even then it's a bridge too far for parents to fork out money for tourneys and competitions.
The surge in poor sideline behaviour rankles with him.
"It's disappointing when parents go over the top to become abusive.
"You have pillars of community who suddenly go crazy and do stupid things," says Trass, adding in the US 65 per cent quit organised sport at 13 and 80 per cent of that is due to parent ugliness.
"We've got to let our kids play and enjoy what they are doing."
