Freshman boys team at one of the huge publixs

[Anonymous]

How difficult is it to make?

[Anonymous]

That’s a tough question to answer since there are lots of levels in basketball, and everybody thinks their team is at least a b+.

My kid’s large public (state champion) high school had 90 kids show up for freshman/JV tryouts (30 spots) and 100 kids show up for varsity tryouts (15 spots).

DS played travel basketball as a starter for an AAU team that played in the top division of large tournaments (4-5 divisions usually, 30 or so teams in each) and won about 60% of their games. Coaches said he was on the bubble between JV and freshman team. He ended up on the freshman team and had a great year. HTH.

Note that he also did green days and played summer league, so coaches knew him.

[Anonymous]

I would say pretty hard, even the freshman team. At our very large fcps, my ds did not make the freshman team. Basketball was his second sport, he had played winter FCYBL for 2 years but didn't do year round. We were surprised to be honest as I guess we were under the impression that the freshman team had a low bar. Nope! The only one player on the team who had not done AAU/travel level basketball was 6'3. (He did not really play though). He has heard no one makes JV if they got cut for freshman so isn't going to try out again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That’s a tough question to answer since there are lots of levels in basketball, and everybody thinks their team is at least a b+.

My kid’s large public (state champion) high school had 90 kids show up for freshman/JV tryouts (30 spots) and 100 kids show up for varsity tryouts (15 spots).

DS played travel basketball as a starter for an AAU team that played in the top division of large tournaments (4-5 divisions usually, 30 or so teams in each) and won about 60% of their games. Coaches said he was on the bubble between JV and freshman team. He ended up on the freshman team and had a great year. HTH.

Note that he also did green days and played summer league, so coaches knew him.

Is this FCPS? Just wondering.

[Anonymous]

In our large public it doesn’t seem over the top hard. They also let 15 boys on the team though which is a ridiculous size for a basketball team.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In our large public it doesn’t seem over the top hard. They also let 15 boys on the team though which is a ridiculous size for a basketball team.

Thats rough b/c only the best 5-6 will get to move up to JV even.

[Anonymous]

My son who had played AAU basketball for two years did not make the freshman team at our FCPS school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In our large public it doesn’t seem over the top hard. They also let 15 boys on the team though which is a ridiculous size for a basketball team.

Thats rough b/c only the best 5-6 will get to move up to JV even.

This. My son's year, two great freshmen made JV. The next year, the same two stayed on JV another year. Only 3 seniors graduated, so only a few kids could move up to Varsity. Only 4-5 kids from his freshman team made JV. JV has freshmen, sophomores, and juniors.

[Anonymous]

Sooo even if they manage to make the team, they have to be freaking amazing to even move up to JV next year? Damn.

[Anonymous]

Well, think about it. A 3000 student high school has 1500 boys. Say 13 boys on Varsity, 13 on JV, 13 on Freshman. A kid has to be one of the 39 best basketball players out of 1500 boys. Basketball is almost universally played. Its not a niche sport.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son who had played AAU basketball for two years did not make the freshman team at our FCPS school.

Because he’s competing with players like my son who started playing on (good to great) AAU teams at age 10. And played year round by age 12.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son who had played AAU basketball for two years did not make the freshman team at our FCPS school.

Because he’s competing with players like my son who started playing on (good to great) AAU teams at age 10. And played year round by age 12.

Are there really 13-14 elite aau freshmen at every big HS?

[Anonymous]

There are at least 5-6 usually

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are at least 5-6 usually

Yep add in a few really tall kids and a few hard workers at the end of the bench and thats a typical freshman team

[Anonymous]

Publix the grocery store?