FCPS Basketball

[Anonymous]

Are teams predetermined before tryouts? Or can there be true surprises?

[Anonymous]

What do you mean by a "true surprise"?

The coaches generally know their talent pool, through last year, green days, etc.

Some (despicable) coaches recruit transfers so it might be a "surprise" to returning players that they are getting bumped for a new kid.

[Anonymous]

I feel like you are asking whether your 9th or 10th grade might make Varsity or JV instead of the freshman team.

[Anonymous]

I am asking if people expected to make Varsity will make Varsity or will some get kicked out? Will people who thought were making JV make Varsity etc. Will they actually be considering performance at tryouts or is that just performative?

[Anonymous]

For the guys, competition is fierce. No one should expect anything

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am asking if people expected to make Varsity will make Varsity or will some get kicked out? Will people who thought were making JV make Varsity etc. Will they actually be considering performance at tryouts or is that just performative?

There will be more good players at tryouts than participated in the fall league teams or fall green days, because some players also do football, cross country, etc.

Has your son been playing fall league and if so, what team is he playing on?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For the guys, competition is fierce. No one should expect anything

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This, especially if as pp mentioned, the coach is a jerk and tries to recruit transfers to take up spots. There are only 12 spots per team so the math is simple. If a kid was planning on moving up to Varsity from JV, he's competing for just a handful of spots against kids who played Varsity last year, kids the coach talked into transferring to play for him, any 9th grade superstars, and all the other 10th-11th graders who want to play.

Boys basketball is the most difficult sport to make at our large FCPS HS. Most other sports find a spot for returning players. Our coach ruthlessly cuts upperclassmen who have been program players since 9th.

[Anonymous]

I only know boys side. Girls side is much easier to make the teams.

Tryouts are only important for the kids who haven't been participating in fall program.

The coaches already know FTMP who from fall workouts/league they are cutting and who is going onto 9th, JV and Varsity. There may be a little uncertainty as to who will get the last few spots on the JV bench and who from the rising freshman group will just be cut altogether from the program.

There aren't usually any complete unknowns who show up and dazzle, even at the 3000 kid high schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I only know boys side. Girls side is much easier to make the teams.

Tryouts are only important for the kids who haven't been participating in fall program.

The coaches already know FTMP who from fall workouts/league they are cutting and who is going onto 9th, JV and Varsity. There may be a little uncertainty as to who will get the last few spots on the JV bench and who from the rising freshman group will just be cut altogether from the program.

There aren't usually any complete unknowns who show up and dazzle, even at the 3000 kid high schools.

I thought the freshman team moved up and became the JV team, and the JV players moved up to Varsity ????

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I only know boys side. Girls side is much easier to make the teams.

Tryouts are only important for the kids who haven't been participating in fall program.

The coaches already know FTMP who from fall workouts/league they are cutting and who is going onto 9th, JV and Varsity. There may be a little uncertainty as to who will get the last few spots on the JV bench and who from the rising freshman group will just be cut altogether from the program.

There aren't usually any complete unknowns who show up and dazzle, even at the 3000 kid high schools.

I thought the freshman team moved up and became the JV team, and the JV players moved up to Varsity ????

Some Varsity and JV are staying on from the previous year, so there aren’t enough spots for everyone to move up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I only know boys side. Girls side is much easier to make the teams.

Tryouts are only important for the kids who haven't been participating in fall program.

The coaches already know FTMP who from fall workouts/league they are cutting and who is going onto 9th, JV and Varsity. There may be a little uncertainty as to who will get the last few spots on the JV bench and who from the rising freshman group will just be cut altogether from the program.

There aren't usually any complete unknowns who show up and dazzle, even at the 3000 kid high schools.

I thought the freshman team moved up and became the JV team, and the JV players moved up to Varsity ????

Some Varsity and JV are staying on from the previous year, so there aren’t enough spots for everyone to move up.

Is two years on JV a negative? It doesn't look like my son is moving up based on fall league placements. He's a sophomore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I only know boys side. Girls side is much easier to make the teams.

Tryouts are only important for the kids who haven't been participating in fall program.

The coaches already know FTMP who from fall workouts/league they are cutting and who is going onto 9th, JV and Varsity. There may be a little uncertainty as to who will get the last few spots on the JV bench and who from the rising freshman group will just be cut altogether from the program.

There aren't usually any complete unknowns who show up and dazzle, even at the 3000 kid high schools.

I thought the freshman team moved up and became the JV team, and the JV players moved up to Varsity ????

Some Varsity and JV are staying on from the previous year, so there aren’t enough spots for everyone to move up.

Is two years on JV a negative? It doesn't look like my son is moving up based on fall league placements. He's a sophomore.

So he was a freshman on JV last year and he's playing on the JV fall league team now as a sophomore?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I only know boys side. Girls side is much easier to make the teams.

Tryouts are only important for the kids who haven't been participating in fall program.

The coaches already know FTMP who from fall workouts/league they are cutting and who is going onto 9th, JV and Varsity. There may be a little uncertainty as to who will get the last few spots on the JV bench and who from the rising freshman group will just be cut altogether from the program.

There aren't usually any complete unknowns who show up and dazzle, even at the 3000 kid high schools.

I thought the freshman team moved up and became the JV team, and the JV players moved up to Varsity ????

Some Varsity and JV are staying on from the previous year, so there aren’t enough spots for everyone to move up.

Is two years on JV a negative? It doesn't look like my son is moving up based on fall league placements. He's a sophomore.

Different coaches are different. Some want kids to get minutes on JV rather than not play on varsity, other just take the best for varsity

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I only know boys side. Girls side is much easier to make the teams.

Tryouts are only important for the kids who haven't been participating in fall program.

The coaches already know FTMP who from fall workouts/league they are cutting and who is going onto 9th, JV and Varsity. There may be a little uncertainty as to who will get the last few spots on the JV bench and who from the rising freshman group will just be cut altogether from the program.

There aren't usually any complete unknowns who show up and dazzle, even at the 3000 kid high schools.

I thought the freshman team moved up and became the JV team, and the JV players moved up to Varsity ????

Some Varsity and JV are staying on from the previous year, so there aren’t enough spots for everyone to move up.

Is two years on JV a negative? It doesn't look like my son is moving up based on fall league placements. He's a sophomore.

So he was a freshman on JV last year and he's playing on the JV fall league team now as a sophomore?

Yes. He was disappointed by the fall league placement and does not expect it to change for tryouts/the season. He carries the JV fall league (scores more than 25pts/game)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I only know boys side. Girls side is much easier to make the teams.

Tryouts are only important for the kids who haven't been participating in fall program.

The coaches already know FTMP who from fall workouts/league they are cutting and who is going onto 9th, JV and Varsity. There may be a little uncertainty as to who will get the last few spots on the JV bench and who from the rising freshman group will just be cut altogether from the program.

There aren't usually any complete unknowns who show up and dazzle, even at the 3000 kid high schools.

I thought the freshman team moved up and became the JV team, and the JV players moved up to Varsity ????

Some Varsity and JV are staying on from the previous year, so there aren’t enough spots for everyone to move up.

The pattern I have observed over multiple years at our very large FCPS is that the freshman who started for the freshman team move up to JV--as well as a few bench players who are either very tall OR very motivated hard worker grinder types (in the coaches mind: good practice players). So maybe @7 move up to JV out of 13/14 from the team. The rest are cut.