FCYBL Awards
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Anonymous
| I was wondering if your kids wins the MVP or All League, is there a ceremony this year to attend on the championship game weekend? |
Anonymous
| Every year, there is a ceremony before the championship game for each division. |
Anonymous
| Lots of politics |
Anonymous
| It’s great for the teams the refuse to have a D1 team, and instead have 2 teams in D2 and vote for each other players. |
Anonymous
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Notice how many coaches’ kids are selected every year?’ LOL
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Anonymous
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On our team, the coach’s kid was by far the best player and deserved the award. So I have no issue with that. Last year, when we were on another team, the coach didn’t even nominate his son as he was just an average player on the team.
So yeah, lots of politics. But sometimes the kid if the coach is indeed the best in the team… |
Anonymous
FCYBL process is actually pretty fair (in this instance). Coaches nominate players yes, but rest of division coaches have to vote on the selections (most deserving, 2nd most etc.). So consensus across the division usually prevails - all my years doing it, most times results were pretty accurate around better kids in the division. As I recall, top 5 teams could nominate for MVP and all teams could only nominate 2-3 players for consideration. |
Anonymous
Yeah but the problem arises when the coach don’t nominate the right kids. There is a kid at PVI right now, who was clearly the best player on a championship 8th grade Gainesville squad 2 or 3 years ago and he wasn’t nominated by his coach as one of the top players on his team. I saw some other kids in the division that were slighted too, but I just couldn’t what happened with the Gainesville kid. He should’ve been the MVP of the whole league. |
Anonymous
Based on the award winners and coaches names looks like most of the kids nominated were coaches own kids for my kids division... |
Anonymous
| Definitely happened last year for us - Coaches kids got the awards. |
Anonymous
Same situation several years ago when my son played in fcybl (tho he did earn an award one year). He quit at 7th grade due to A team vs B team politics and switched to a year round AAU team. Better competition for him too. |
Anonymous
| The coaches vote for each others kids! |
Anonymous
So the have a gentleman’s agreement |
Anonymous
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We only had about 60% of the all-star winners show up at the award ceremony! Shocked that these parents/players did not even care. What is the point of MVC even - he was missing too! |
Anonymous
For many, it's a long drive to a short ceremony if your kid's team isn't playing in the championship game. |