St James Academy

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Anonymous wrote:The coach is a convicted felon?

If that's true, it makes the parents sound like the parent of every child actor who was treated horrifically. As long as the kid has a chance at getting famous, the parents don't care what horrible situation the kid is in.

Awful.

It's exactly like that. I saw the info sessions last spring...so, so predatory towards families who are hungry (maybe even desperate) for the quick cash that an NIL deal could bring. And to the PP saying it's like European football academies, I'd like to see a comparison of the number of adults playing soccer professionally worldwide versus American football. And while we're at it, let's compare the catastrophic injury rates between the two.

Why?

Bethesda Soccer Club also has started an academy using the same group as St James. Does it somehow make Bethesda Soccer Club more valid? It’s the exact same virtual model.

St James offers basketball and other sports. It’s not just football.

It’s not for everyone. Some kids just don’t have the physical talent to make it and it’s okay. They are the to give it their best and get in the best situation to pursue their dreams.
But if you know you will play division 1 sports in college it’s a good place. Just make sure your kid gets the tools academically to make it through college.

Why bother?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The coach is a convicted felon?

If that's true, it makes the parents sound like the parent of every child actor who was treated horrifically. As long as the kid has a chance at getting famous, the parents don't care what horrible situation the kid is in.

Awful.

It's exactly like that. I saw the info sessions last spring...so, so predatory towards families who are hungry (maybe even desperate) for the quick cash that an NIL deal could bring. And to the PP saying it's like European football academies, I'd like to see a comparison of the number of adults playing soccer professionally worldwide versus American football. And while we're at it, let's compare the catastrophic injury rates between the two.

Why?

Bethesda Soccer Club also has started an academy using the same group as St James. Does it somehow make Bethesda Soccer Club more valid? It’s the exact same virtual model.

St James offers basketball and other sports. It’s not just football.

It’s not for everyone. Some kids just don’t have the physical talent to make it and it’s okay. They are the to give it their best and get in the best situation to pursue their dreams.
But if you know you will play division 1 sports in college it’s a good place. Just make sure your kid gets the tools academically to make it through college.

Why bother?

My son’s at a big 3. The academics and social scene are probably much better, but I’m sure he isn’t getting the athletic training he would at St James

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The coach is a convicted felon?

If that's true, it makes the parents sound like the parent of every child actor who was treated horrifically. As long as the kid has a chance at getting famous, the parents don't care what horrible situation the kid is in.

Awful.

It's exactly like that. I saw the info sessions last spring...so, so predatory towards families who are hungry (maybe even desperate) for the quick cash that an NIL deal could bring. And to the PP saying it's like European football academies, I'd like to see a comparison of the number of adults playing soccer professionally worldwide versus American football. And while we're at it, let's compare the catastrophic injury rates between the two.

Why?

Bethesda Soccer Club also has started an academy using the same group as St James. Does it somehow make Bethesda Soccer Club more valid? It’s the exact same virtual model.

St James offers basketball and other sports. It’s not just football.

It’s not for everyone. Some kids just don’t have the physical talent to make it and it’s okay. They are the to give it their best and get in the best situation to pursue their dreams.
But if you know you will play division 1 sports in college it’s a good place. Just make sure your kid gets the tools academically to make it through college.

I mean...what tools do you need to make it through a Power 4 school in the most popular majors. Honestly, you will probably have "tutors" doing your work for you.

Business, Kinesiology/Exercise Science, Psychology, Communication/Media, and Social Sciences

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The coach is a convicted felon?

If that's true, it makes the parents sound like the parent of every child actor who was treated horrifically. As long as the kid has a chance at getting famous, the parents don't care what horrible situation the kid is in.

Awful.

It's exactly like that. I saw the info sessions last spring...so, so predatory towards families who are hungry (maybe even desperate) for the quick cash that an NIL deal could bring. And to the PP saying it's like European football academies, I'd like to see a comparison of the number of adults playing soccer professionally worldwide versus American football. And while we're at it, let's compare the catastrophic injury rates between the two.

Why?

Bethesda Soccer Club also has started an academy using the same group as St James. Does it somehow make Bethesda Soccer Club more valid? It’s the exact same virtual model.

St James offers basketball and other sports. It’s not just football.

It’s not for everyone. Some kids just don’t have the physical talent to make it and it’s okay. They are the to give it their best and get in the best situation to pursue their dreams.
But if you know you will play division 1 sports in college it’s a good place. Just make sure your kid gets the tools academically to make it through college.

I mean...what tools do you need to make it through a Power 4 school in the most popular majors. Honestly, you will probably have "tutors" doing your work for you.

Business, Kinesiology/Exercise Science, Psychology, Communication/Media, and Social Sciences

Tutors can’t take tests for you can they?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The coach is a convicted felon?

If that's true, it makes the parents sound like the parent of every child actor who was treated horrifically. As long as the kid has a chance at getting famous, the parents don't care what horrible situation the kid is in.

Awful.

It's exactly like that. I saw the info sessions last spring...so, so predatory towards families who are hungry (maybe even desperate) for the quick cash that an NIL deal could bring. And to the PP saying it's like European football academies, I'd like to see a comparison of the number of adults playing soccer professionally worldwide versus American football. And while we're at it, let's compare the catastrophic injury rates between the two.

Why?

Bethesda Soccer Club also has started an academy using the same group as St James. Does it somehow make Bethesda Soccer Club more valid? It’s the exact same virtual model.

St James offers basketball and other sports. It’s not just football.

It’s not for everyone. Some kids just don’t have the physical talent to make it and it’s okay. They are the to give it their best and get in the best situation to pursue their dreams.
But if you know you will play division 1 sports in college it’s a good place. Just make sure your kid gets the tools academically to make it through college.

I mean...what tools do you need to make it through a Power 4 school in the most popular majors. Honestly, you will probably have "tutors" doing your work for you.

Business, Kinesiology/Exercise Science, Psychology, Communication/Media, and Social Sciences

Tutors can’t take tests for you can they?

What tests?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The coach is a convicted felon?

If that's true, it makes the parents sound like the parent of every child actor who was treated horrifically. As long as the kid has a chance at getting famous, the parents don't care what horrible situation the kid is in.

Awful.

It's exactly like that. I saw the info sessions last spring...so, so predatory towards families who are hungry (maybe even desperate) for the quick cash that an NIL deal could bring. And to the PP saying it's like European football academies, I'd like to see a comparison of the number of adults playing soccer professionally worldwide versus American football. And while we're at it, let's compare the catastrophic injury rates between the two.

Why?

Bethesda Soccer Club also has started an academy using the same group as St James. Does it somehow make Bethesda Soccer Club more valid? It’s the exact same virtual model.

St James offers basketball and other sports. It’s not just football.

It’s not for everyone. Some kids just don’t have the physical talent to make it and it’s okay. They are the to give it their best and get in the best situation to pursue their dreams.
But if you know you will play division 1 sports in college it’s a good place. Just make sure your kid gets the tools academically to make it through college.

I mean...what tools do you need to make it through a Power 4 school in the most popular majors. Honestly, you will probably have "tutors" doing your work for you.

Business, Kinesiology/Exercise Science, Psychology, Communication/Media, and Social Sciences

Tutors can’t take tests for you can they?

Not officially...but it happens. I don't know what to say. My kid works out with a kid that plays baseball at University of TN. The player was telling my son that he basically spends like 9am - 9pm training 6 days a week. My kid asked how he completes college work and takes tests and the answer was "we have people that take care of that for us".

That kid and like 1/2 the team expect to be drafted into the MLB (though of course an injury can derail your plans)...unlike other sports, the MLB drafts tons of players, and many that go after the 4th round won't get a huge signing bonus and relatively crappy Minor League pay...but they don't care for the opportunity to maybe get called up to the MLB.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The coach is a convicted felon?

If that's true, it makes the parents sound like the parent of every child actor who was treated horrifically. As long as the kid has a chance at getting famous, the parents don't care what horrible situation the kid is in.

Awful.

It's exactly like that. I saw the info sessions last spring...so, so predatory towards families who are hungry (maybe even desperate) for the quick cash that an NIL deal could bring. And to the PP saying it's like European football academies, I'd like to see a comparison of the number of adults playing soccer professionally worldwide versus American football. And while we're at it, let's compare the catastrophic injury rates between the two.

Why?

Bethesda Soccer Club also has started an academy using the same group as St James. Does it somehow make Bethesda Soccer Club more valid? It’s the exact same virtual model.

St James offers basketball and other sports. It’s not just football.

It’s not for everyone. Some kids just don’t have the physical talent to make it and it’s okay. They are the to give it their best and get in the best situation to pursue their dreams.
But if you know you will play division 1 sports in college it’s a good place. Just make sure your kid gets the tools academically to make it through college.

Why bother?

My son’s at a big 3. The academics and social scene are probably much better, but I’m sure he isn’t getting the athletic training he would at St James

What is your priority?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The coach is a convicted felon?

If that's true, it makes the parents sound like the parent of every child actor who was treated horrifically. As long as the kid has a chance at getting famous, the parents don't care what horrible situation the kid is in.

Awful.

It's exactly like that. I saw the info sessions last spring...so, so predatory towards families who are hungry (maybe even desperate) for the quick cash that an NIL deal could bring. And to the PP saying it's like European football academies, I'd like to see a comparison of the number of adults playing soccer professionally worldwide versus American football. And while we're at it, let's compare the catastrophic injury rates between the two.

Why?

Bethesda Soccer Club also has started an academy using the same group as St James. Does it somehow make Bethesda Soccer Club more valid? It’s the exact same virtual model.

St James offers basketball and other sports. It’s not just football.

It’s not for everyone. Some kids just don’t have the physical talent to make it and it’s okay. They are the to give it their best and get in the best situation to pursue their dreams.
But if you know you will play division 1 sports in college it’s a good place. Just make sure your kid gets the tools academically to make it through college.

Why bother?

My son’s at a big 3. The academics and social scene are probably much better, but I’m sure he isn’t getting the athletic training he would at St James

What is your priority?

My kid is good where he is. He didn’t reclass. Has high test scores and gets good grades. However, he would have a better opportunity of being successful in college sports if he were at St James.

[Anonymous]

I would not say that, the training at SJA for basketball is not that great. Sure they spend 1.5 hours - 2 hours practicing during the day, while your kids is in class, but for basketball it is not a lot of training, more so a practice, so if you kid is not in the starting 5, or top 7, they are just standing on the sidelines watching other kids play.

And you pay $35,000 for him to do so.

They have an hour of high performance training, which is good, but you can get that at any rec center or just by being a member of SJ.

[Anonymous]

If you want your kid to get really good training at a basketball Academy you are better off going to Gillion Academy in Springfield or Bethel Academy in Manassas. Gillon trains 4 hours a day and is very serious on the academic side. They even have live teaching days, SJA does not have any of that and they train for less time, but charge more than twice as much.

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Anonymous wrote:The SJA HS boys basketball coach is Book Richardson, he was a convicted felon, but Biden pardoned him. Walt Webb is running the post-grad team and the middle school program, which is really his twins, kids he knows and the owner's son. They only had a few outside kids enroll in the MS program. This is very different than Gillion and Bethel Academy.

Webb's twins are officially 7th graders, however I am pretty sure they are older than 12 years old. For some reason, the taller twin made the varsity or JV team.

$35,000 is a lot of money to pay for Daddy ball and a free online public school.

There is another MS coach who is Webb's buddy that has a son at SJA. Again, they brought on people they knew as SJA didn't bring in many other/outside kids from grades 5-8.

Webb has con artist ways, but is also a basketball coach with years of legitimate experience, which is how he gets away with the daddyball.

One of the 8th graders Webb brought in has been ranked number 1 in the country and somewhere within the top ten players in the country for his age group for years. He has always used his basketball connections to surround his twin sons with the best talent he could find and when he can’t find talent the right age, he has cheated and used older kids, and this is something he’s been doing atleast since the twins were 4 years old.

The twins are old enough to be 9th graders but are 7th graders so they should be good playing with 7th grade competition. Their father will make sure the taller one is the point guard and primary ball handler. He will try not to bring in anyone better and if he does, they won’t get much playing time at that position.

Wont surprise me if Webb doesn’t work out over there. If he’s coaching post grad in addition to middle school, he will try to have his middle school sons working out with the post grad team for sure. Will also try to sneak them into any unsanctioned games if he can get away with it. And the tall one will be the point guard on that post grad team.

I heard the taller twin got in during a HS practice session, when one of the HS on court players made a mistake. MS was there watching but instead of Book putting in a HS sub, Webb put in his son. Seems like Khryi would have gotten in before Webb's kid, but maybe Khryi is an actual 8th grader and has not reclassed?

[Anonymous]

He should have let the other twin stay in real school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The SJA HS boys basketball coach is Book Richardson, he was a convicted felon, but Biden pardoned him. Walt Webb is running the post-grad team and the middle school program, which is really his twins, kids he knows and the owner's son. They only had a few outside kids enroll in the MS program. This is very different than Gillion and Bethel Academy.

Webb's twins are officially 7th graders, however I am pretty sure they are older than 12 years old. For some reason, the taller twin made the varsity or JV team.

$35,000 is a lot of money to pay for Daddy ball and a free online public school.

There is another MS coach who is Webb's buddy that has a son at SJA. Again, they brought on people they knew as SJA didn't bring in many other/outside kids from grades 5-8.

Webb has con artist ways, but is also a basketball coach with years of legitimate experience, which is how he gets away with the daddyball.

One of the 8th graders Webb brought in has been ranked number 1 in the country and somewhere within the top ten players in the country for his age group for years. He has always used his basketball connections to surround his twin sons with the best talent he could find and when he can’t find talent the right age, he has cheated and used older kids, and this is something he’s been doing atleast since the twins were 4 years old.

The twins are old enough to be 9th graders but are 7th graders so they should be good playing with 7th grade competition. Their father will make sure the taller one is the point guard and primary ball handler. He will try not to bring in anyone better and if he does, they won’t get much playing time at that position.

Wont surprise me if Webb doesn’t work out over there. If he’s coaching post grad in addition to middle school, he will try to have his middle school sons working out with the post grad team for sure. Will also try to sneak them into any unsanctioned games if he can get away with it. And the tall one will be the point guard on that post grad team.

I heard the taller twin got in during a HS practice session, when one of the HS on court players made a mistake. MS was there watching but instead of Book putting in a HS sub, Webb put in his son. Seems like Khryi would have gotten in before Webb's kid, but maybe Khryi is an actual 8th grader and has not reclassed?

Khyri is the reason Webb’s AAU teams won national championships. He’s the reason Webb got the chance to coach at Takeover. Webbs using that kid. Webb is only worried about the development of his kids. He will probably separate from St James if they stop him from his daddyball tendencies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: He should have let the other twin stay in real school.

The taller one is decent, but if he has to play with kids his age and his dad isn’t rigging things to benefit him, he’s not that good either.

[Anonymous]

literally their family owns a shooting machine business. How could they not be good at shooting lol.