What's up with youth sports in DC? Janney ES?
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Anonymous
| Are there actually good players at Janney now? Why don’t they play for Team Takeover or one of the good DC AAU teams? Most of those kids probably won’t play basketball in high school. |
Anonymous
You aren't kidding. The parents are oblivious to how embarrassing this mentality is. It's 10 and 11 year-olds |
Anonymous
They are only 10 and 11 and no one is getting an NIL contract that plays on that team. That isn't the point. It has nothing to do with the kids. |
Anonymous
| Well, Janney is the feeder school for Northwest Little League. So there’s that. |
Anonymous
To me as a longtime basketball parent and former ES coach, talking about the “best” elementary school seems absolutely laughable. Really anything much before freshman year of high school is meaningless. I know two kids who were “ranked” in the top 50 nationally in middle school (also ridiculous) who didn’t make their HS varsity team. Other kids who were among the slowest and most awkward in ES were dunking in games by 8th grade. Bragging about your kid’s elementary school basketball success really makes you seems like 1) you know nothing about basketball, and 2) you really don’t have much meaningful to be proud of. |
Anonymous
That’s what’s so appalling. Most of these parents don’t know enough about basketball to even know what good AAU teams are, and they don’t have kids or relatives who played in college so they don’t understand typical player development (hint: the kids who will be 6’6”+ aren’t usually the fastest most aggressive kids in ES). Basically, they don’t know enough to be embarrassed at how absurd their behavior is. The thing that I find really interesting about DMV basketball culture among kids and parents who WILL end up playing on TV and getting NIL money is that they tend to be incredibly gracious and supportive. I’ve seen parents in the stands from both teams at HS games between top teams take real joy when kids (ESPECIALLY kids who didn’t have reputation or look the part) played well. And, I’ve seen a lot less of idiot parents who don’t know the rules screaming at refs for making correct calls. |
Anonymous
And this here just illustrates the points being made on this thread. |
Anonymous
| It is a toxic culture at that school. Embarrassing for the adult coaches. I saw them play a game a couple weeks ago and one of the coaches was Nodding his head holding up his hands making the money signal with every score.....up 20. To me, in that situation it is "taunting". Grow up. I also just looked up NW Little League to see what the other poster was eluding to. My god....... |
Anonymous
Yeah.....if you are up 20 in an elementary school game (and insurmountable lead at that age from my experience) and you are doing that.....it's taunting plain and simple. What is wrong with these people? |
Anonymous
"Karens raising Karens". HAHAHAHA. I need to steal that one!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 |
Anonymous
| Janney Girls Basketball is a good program with many positive results for the kids past and present. The kids practice and play hard and the volunteer coaches are great. I would rather a team respect my kids' team enough to play basketball rather than to play keep away or some other garbage because they are way better. There is a difference of opinion where you respect the team and keep playing or you pull up and run out the clock to appear like you are not embarrassing the other team. I have been on both sides and trust me I rather my kid's team be beaten by the better team in basketball than the other team play keep away and the crowd is laughing because that is more embarrassing in my opinion. It is a show of respect for the game and competition, but I acknowledge the other opinion. Each their own. |
Anonymous
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I sent two boys thru Janney and the anti Janney stuff that comes up on DCUM is frankly completely bonkers and disconnected from reality and largely I think driven by unhinged & insecure private school parents (or a singular parent) who bailed from DCPS at some point because of their personal insecurities and has a strange ax to grind.
Having said that there both of my kids played on the boys basketball team at Janney and there has long been a weird intensity/ego problem among the coaches and parents of the girls team that has been really puzzling but assuming they are from parents of the girls team a couple of the posts in this thread are consistent with the entire strange win at any costs/ the end justifies the means mentality. There was a scrimmage last year between the boys and girls team at Janney that was just bizarre - one of the girls coaches was the ref and the calls were so lopsided in favor of the girls that the game more resembled a WWE event than a basketball game and then the ref started throwing the boys out of the game for saying anything about the calls - I'm not sure a single call went against the girls the entire game which is saying something because they were very physically aggressive. This all spilled over into the classrooms the following two weeks because the girls were running their mouths about winning and the boys were extremely angry about the way the game had been played to the point where the boys coach had to spend the good part of a practice telling the boys that they had to be the bigger party and accept there was nothing to do and move on and that the coaches wouldn't tolerate any reports about the boys further arguing about the game. Needless to say the 2nd scheduled scrimmage was cancelled so this particular team has issues getting along within their own school. |
Anonymous
Non-Janney parent here. This is interesting insight as it confirms something I suspected.....that perhaps this isn't an issue with Janney in general as I have never seen the disrespectful approaches at any of the boys games I have seen. For example, I went to both the girls and boys games last year when our school played Janney and I was fascinated at the different level of adult intensity with the girls vs the boys. The gym at Janney is a tinder box as well and unfortunately when it is that small of a space and that physical, it doesn't resemble basketball. It goes to the lowest common denominator. We always do Boys vs Girls scrimmages at our school and they work really hard against eachother and its usually a pretty close game but luckily never seen the craziness described above! That's wild. Good for the boys coaches for teaching life lessons. Life is not always fair. You need to be able to move on. This is what I love about sports....these types of lessons |
Anonymous
I am not sure anyone is expecting a team to convert to "monkey in the middle" to run out the clock. But if you are up 20-0, maybe have your players use their weak hand and develop an ability to dribble with their left hand (for most)? Maybe try a different defense (example: man-to-man) instead of pressing the other team and trapping at half court to the point where they can't even get a shot off? Maybe put your bench in earlier? Maybe practice a new play. There are dozens of ways to improve your players in lopsided games without humiliating another team 44-0. If those coaches DON'T know how to do these things to develop their players while being respectful , then they are in fact not "great coaches". I have coached ES, Middle School and High School for 22 years and it is absurd this is even a conversation at the ES level. We are talking 9-11 year olds. I agree with your "to each their own" comment as I think once you get to Middle and High School, this becomes harder to prevent (I guess also there are higher scoring games too). But for ES, I don't think its the same...... |
Anonymous
| If the Girls beat the Boys blame the referee, LOL. Now that is funny! The Girls team was better and they won. I don't see anything wrong with that. |