anyone know about the "Virginia Valor Fathers Day Fiesta" or the "FPYC Fathers Day Tournament"

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Anonymous wrote:Rec leagues ftmp are run on volunteer work If you have ideas to improve a league, you should volunteer. If you think all star teams should have tryouts, you could offer to organize and run them all. Or you could be an age group volunteer and set things up how you think is fair.

Simple question for you: why is this not an issue in rec basketball? Or rec flag football? Lacrosse? Any other sport you can think of? They’re all volunteer run as well. There is something very wrong with how these coaches and coordinators game the system for all stars and team rosters. And you think it’s easy to volunteer for a coordinator spot??? Those positions are taken waaaay in advance usually by someone specifically looking to game the system for their team. Rec basketball has a draft. Rec soccer you are at the mercy of a coordinator.

Rec basketball allstar coaches put their kids on the team.

Rec basketball has all stars? What tournaments are popular?

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Our rec basketball all stars is just one extra game for fun. No big deal.

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Anonymous wrote:Loudoun does well in All Stars because their rec leagues are very big=picking best players
from 20 teams vs smaller locales picking best
players from 5 teams... Being more organized is just cherry on sundae

Balanced by the cost keeps a lot of kids from signing up.
Lately they have been struggling to get players and e-mailing coaches after tryouts.
Doesn't help that they sign up two teams when they had a total of about 21 players for 9v9. They could have just dropped to one team and not sent out requests for more players.

Huh? Loudoun had a huge turnout this year for all star tryouts. 2014 and 2013 boys had over 60 kids each trying out. They were not in need of any additional players to form teams.

I don't know about this year, but 2011 and 2010 boys had problems the last few years. Our coach found out about one kid who made all-star and said ,'They're taking everyone now?'

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Anonymous wrote:Rec leagues ftmp are run on volunteer work If you have ideas to improve a league, you should volunteer. If you think all star teams should have tryouts, you could offer to organize and run them all. Or you could be an age group volunteer and set things up how you think is fair.

Simple question for you: why is this not an issue in rec basketball? Or rec flag football? Lacrosse? Any other sport you can think of? They’re all volunteer run as well. There is something very wrong with how these coaches and coordinators game the system for all stars and team rosters. And you think it’s easy to volunteer for a coordinator spot??? Those positions are taken waaaay in advance usually by someone specifically looking to game the system for their team. Rec basketball has a draft. Rec soccer you are at the mercy of a coordinator.

Rec basketball allstar coaches put their kids on the team.

Rec basketball has all stars? What tournaments are popular?

In Loudoun four different leagues get together after the season.

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Anonymous wrote:Our rec basketball all stars is just one extra game for fun. No big deal.

Yep this is what our league does. My child’s coach last year had the players vote on who should play in the game. I thought that was really cool

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Anonymous wrote:Our rec basketball all stars is just one extra game for fun. No big deal.

Yep this is what our league does. My child’s coach last year had the players vote on who should play in the game. I thought that was really cool

That would be great if all star soccer built their teams like that. Teams getting an equal number of players that their teammates voted in would remove the doubt and bs. It would also result in better stronger teams.

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Anonymous wrote:Our rec basketball all stars is just one extra game for fun. No big deal.

Yep this is what our league does. My child’s coach last year had the players vote on who should play in the game. I thought that was really cool

That would be great if all star soccer built their teams like that. Teams getting an equal number of players that their teammates voted in would remove the doubt and bs. It would also result in better stronger teams.

Letting coaches select the team is a perq of the job. It is a lot of work and hassle for a volunteer. Usually coaches want to select a good team. Frankly, there's not much difference between most decent rec players. If he selects his kid's friend over your kid, there is probably very little actual difference in skill.

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Anonymous wrote:Our rec basketball all stars is just one extra game for fun. No big deal.

Yep this is what our league does. My child’s coach last year had the players vote on who should play in the game. I thought that was really cool

That would be great if all star soccer built their teams like that. Teams getting an equal number of players that their teammates voted in would remove the doubt and bs. It would also result in better stronger teams.

Letting coaches select the team is a perq of the job. It is a lot of work and hassle for a volunteer. Usually coaches want to select a good team. Frankly, there's not much difference between most decent rec players. If he selects his kid's friend over your kid, there is probably very little actual difference in skill.

You must be one of those loser coaches picking your DC and their friends? How’ve your teams done in all star tournaments bub? …. That’s what I thought.

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Anonymous wrote:Our rec basketball all stars is just one extra game for fun. No big deal.

Yep this is what our league does. My child’s coach last year had the players vote on who should play in the game. I thought that was really cool

That would be great if all star soccer built their teams like that. Teams getting an equal number of players that their teammates voted in would remove the doubt and bs. It would also result in better stronger teams.

Letting coaches select the team is a perq of the job. It is a lot of work and hassle for a volunteer. Usually coaches want to select a good team. Frankly, there's not much difference between most decent rec players. If he selects his kid's friend over your kid, there is probably very little actual difference in skill.

I’m the PP who posted about the basketball coach letting the players vote. This coach had a younger kid who was on my kid’s team, and a much older kid who had already been through years of rec and travel bball. He had the perspective and wisdom that comes with being able to look back on those years of youth sports, and was coaching for all the right reasons. I am 99% sure his own kid did not play in the all star game. I wish we had more parents like this. It’s a sport for the kids. Parents seem to forget this.

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Anonymous wrote:Our rec basketball all stars is just one extra game for fun. No big deal.

Yep this is what our league does. My child’s coach last year had the players vote on who should play in the game. I thought that was really cool

That would be great if all star soccer built their teams like that. Teams getting an equal number of players that their teammates voted in would remove the doubt and bs. It would also result in better stronger teams.

Letting coaches select the team is a perq of the job. It is a lot of work and hassle for a volunteer. Usually coaches want to select a good team. Frankly, there's not much difference between most decent rec players. If he selects his kid's friend over your kid, there is probably very little actual difference in skill.

I’m the PP who posted about the basketball coach letting the players vote. This coach had a younger kid who was on my kid’s team, and a much older kid who had already been through years of rec and travel bball. He had the perspective and wisdom that comes with being able to look back on those years of youth sports, and was coaching for all the right reasons. I am 99% sure his own kid did not play in the all star game. I wish we had more parents like this. It’s a sport for the kids. Parents seem to forget this.

+ 100! This is sports for children. Not a perk for some sniveling slimy coach putting their kids for hard working talented kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Our rec basketball all stars is just one extra game for fun. No big deal.

Yep this is what our league does. My child’s coach last year had the players vote on who should play in the game. I thought that was really cool

That would be great if all star soccer built their teams like that. Teams getting an equal number of players that their teammates voted in would remove the doubt and bs. It would also result in better stronger teams.

Letting coaches select the team is a perq of the job. It is a lot of work and hassle for a volunteer. Usually coaches want to select a good team. Frankly, there's not much difference between most decent rec players. If he selects his kid's friend over your kid, there is probably very little actual difference in skill.

You must be one of those loser coaches picking your DC and their friends? How’ve your teams done in all star tournaments bub? …. That’s what I thought.

How will you get people to volunteer to coach the teams if their own kid doesn't get to play?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our rec basketball all stars is just one extra game for fun. No big deal.

Yep this is what our league does. My child’s coach last year had the players vote on who should play in the game. I thought that was really cool

That would be great if all star soccer built their teams like that. Teams getting an equal number of players that their teammates voted in would remove the doubt and bs. It would also result in better stronger teams.

Letting coaches select the team is a perq of the job. It is a lot of work and hassle for a volunteer. Usually coaches want to select a good team. Frankly, there's not much difference between most decent rec players. If he selects his kid's friend over your kid, there is probably very little actual difference in skill.

You must be one of those loser coaches picking your DC and their friends? How’ve your teams done in all star tournaments bub? …. That’s what I thought.

Who cares how they did? I'm sure they all had a great time, playing extra games with friends.

If you want to volunteer to run the all star program for all ages at your rec league (scheduling/supervising multiple tryouts for every age group, selecting teams, finding coaches, registering players, ordering shirts, scheduling all the practices, dealing with parents, getting all the paperwork in to the tournament etc), or coach an all star team, I guarantee you will get the gig. It is a lot of time so hope you aren't busy.

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where do they list the teams that played last year and results

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our rec basketball all stars is just one extra game for fun. No big deal.

Yep this is what our league does. My child’s coach last year had the players vote on who should play in the game. I thought that was really cool

That would be great if all star soccer built their teams like that. Teams getting an equal number of players that their teammates voted in would remove the doubt and bs. It would also result in better stronger teams.

Letting coaches select the team is a perq of the job. It is a lot of work and hassle for a volunteer. Usually coaches want to select a good team. Frankly, there's not much difference between most decent rec players. If he selects his kid's friend over your kid, there is probably very little actual difference in skill.

You must be one of those loser coaches picking your DC and their friends? How’ve your teams done in all star tournaments bub? …. That’s what I thought.

Who cares how they did? I'm sure they all had a great time, playing extra games with friends.

If you want to volunteer to run the all star program for all ages at your rec league (scheduling/supervising multiple tryouts for every age group, selecting teams, finding coaches, registering players, ordering shirts, scheduling all the practices, dealing with parents, getting all the paperwork in to the tournament etc), or coach an all star team, I guarantee you will get the gig. It is a lot of time so hope you aren't busy.

Volunteering is hard. You really have to make sure all those spreadsheets are entered in correctly.

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Anonymous wrote:where do they list the teams that played last year and results

Herndon cup keeps their results posted. Not sure why valor doesn’t.