FCYBL-is this allowed?

[Anonymous]

LOL. This team is suspect because they have SO MANY parent volunteers. Good lord. We are still begging for a scorekeeper and building supervisor, and they have a whole army ready to go.

https://www.leagueathletics.com/TeamsContacts.asp?org=FCYBL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Speaking of following rules, once your son starts playing AAU you’ll discover age/grade rules don’t matter in the local and many national tournaments and leagues because no one asks or checks. Your team following the rules will find themselves playing against boys a head taller and 20 pounds heavier. Or when your team makes a playoff game, they are suddenly facing a “big” team of players from the older team while the appropriate age group boys sit on the bench. (But you can’t complain since no one is carrying team birth certificates since never asked for them.)

That's why people like this league. It's local, it's fun, and they used to enforce rules so you wouldn't run into those cheater teams.

Did they say anything at the coaches meeting about ineligible players or checking rosters? There was a player a few years ago who was playing on two teams in the same age group (one D1, one D2) and the league didn't catch it so it's not like they are carefully checking anything in normal years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LOL. This team is suspect because they have SO MANY parent volunteers. Good lord. We are still begging for a scorekeeper and building supervisor, and they have a whole army ready to go.

https://www.leagueathletics.com/TeamsContacts.asp?org=FCYBL

Holy crap. My son's team doesn't even have an assistant coach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually, he posted an instagram photo with his son. His son is on the team. He lives in Maryland. No idea where the kid lives.

Looks like he's not with the mom. She probably lives in a correct zip code. I guess.

But three coaches and NONE of them live in the correct zip codes? OK. Totally legit "McLean" team.

Easy there. It's hard enough to find coaches, not to mention good coaches. People whine on this board constantly about "daddy coaches". Honestly, it's not the worst idea for an AAU program to encourage their coaches to moonlight with FCYBL teams to identify and recruit players for their AAU programs. My older daughter played for 3 years with an "out of zip" coach, who she eventually played AAU for. Win-Win.

[Anonymous]

Its very amusing that the biggest red flag is having a phalanx of parent volunteers ready to go---not the AAU team *exactly* matching the McLean travel team, not the 80-5 scores at games against other D1 teams, not the number of enormously tall kids coming from two zip codes, not the random coaches from nowhere near McLean, not the kids schlepping from Centreville.....****the most suspicious thing is having so many parents signing up to help out. Its unnatural!*****

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually, he posted an instagram photo with his son. His son is on the team. He lives in Maryland. No idea where the kid lives.

Looks like he's not with the mom. She probably lives in a correct zip code. I guess.

But three coaches and NONE of them live in the correct zip codes? OK. Totally legit "McLean" team.

Easy there. It's hard enough to find coaches, not to mention good coaches. People whine on this board constantly about "daddy coaches". Honestly, it's not the worst idea for an AAU program to encourage their coaches to moonlight with FCYBL teams to identify and recruit players for their AAU programs. My older daughter played for 3 years with an "out of zip" coach, who she eventually played AAU for. Win-Win.

FCYBL teams rarely have a hard time finding coach volunteers. Leagues usually have many candidates for each coaching spot...because it guarantees your kid a place on the team, and its hard to make a team with 50 boys competing for one slot.

[Anonymous]

agree. It’s rec that has to beg for coaches. Travel has a huge perq in that your kid makes the team automatically. Leagues have coaches fighting to be chosen for the head coach a lot.

[Anonymous]

So a kid can sign up for two teams and no one would know?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So a kid can sign up for two teams and no one would know?

Are you asking for a friend?

[Anonymous]

If no one is checking anything, then a kid could be on ten different rosters and no one would know or apparently care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL. This team is suspect because they have SO MANY parent volunteers. Good lord. We are still begging for a scorekeeper and building supervisor, and they have a whole army ready to go.

https://www.leagueathletics.com/TeamsContacts.asp?org=FCYBL

Holy crap. My son's team doesn't even have an assistant coach.

Not different than CYA, Fort Hunt, Springfield, Turnpike teams. You guys are reaching. Maybe volunteer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL. This team is suspect because they have SO MANY parent volunteers. Good lord. We are still begging for a scorekeeper and building supervisor, and they have a whole army ready to go.

https://www.leagueathletics.com/TeamsContacts.asp?org=FCYBL

Holy crap. My son's team doesn't even have an assistant coach.

Not different than CYA, Fort Hunt, Springfield, Turnpike teams. You guys are reaching. Maybe volunteer.

What makes you think the people posting here don't volunteer?

[Anonymous]

In that age group of 26 teams.
Almost all the teams have fewer than 4 staff (coaches + volunteers. Many have 1-2 total.

The Turnpike team has 6.
Ft Hunt has 6.
Springfield has 7.
CYA has 11.

The McLean A team has 13.
by comparison, the McLean B team has 5.
(In case the argument is that McLean parents are simply more civic-minded then the rest of northern va).

Draw whatever conclusions you want but those are the facts.

[Anonymous]

Certainly fits the narrative of an existing team that has played together for a long time.

[Anonymous]

I think it's weird that the McLean 7th grade team A coach is also coaching the Burke 8th grade A team.

http://www.burkebasketball.org/Bulletins.asp?MyTeam=704357&org=burkebasketball.org