FCYBL-is this allowed?

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Anonymous wrote:I believe the Reston 7th Grade Boys D1 is mostly or entirely Nova Cavs AAU players. I recognized most of them from when they played my son's team in the summer. The problem with collecting all the good players for your AAU team and then playing in the FCYBL is there aren't enough good players left for the other teams to give you any good competitive games.

Nope. I know a kid who isn’t affiliated that organization and probably their best player.

Very true. 100% this happened with Reston. Have you seen their record/scores? Totally unfair.

I don’t get how this is fun or useful for that team to play in a league with no competition.

Those kids live in Reston. They are just better than the other teams.

They have a huge advantage if they play together year round. This league isn’t meant for AAU teams.

Most AAU players play county. Some of the better teams are all one AAU team, but some of the best are zip codes that happen to have very good AAU players from different teams

If teams are formed in October naturally and follow the zip code requirements and just happen to have bunch of really good kids who play year-round, that's one thing (although would still argue year-round basketball-only focus isn't what county league designed to provide). But full AAU teams - or super teams of couple AAU teams combined - with kids who play together year-round is well beyond mission of county league. And FCYBL is promoting this by not doing simple zip code certification they've always done...

Not sure what these AAU or AAU-hybrid teams get out of it. They dominate teams made up of kids who just started playing together couple months ago and win every game by 30-40 points. Great. As a coach, would worry that those kids would get lazy or develop bad habits that would be costly when they "re-hit" the AAU circuit...

Maybe they should not allow zip code exceptions, that's how these teams are able to do this.

I think they should get rid of the zip code limitations. A kid should be good as long as they live in the county.

That would be the opposite to the whole purpose and existence of the league.

Either that or keep the kids in their own school pyramid.

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Zip code rules force kids to play for teams and coaches they prefer not to if given the choice, especially if there is only one club fielding a team in a zip code . Just get rid of them.

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Anonymous wrote:Zip code rules force kids to play for teams and coaches they prefer not to if given the choice, especially if there is only one club fielding a team in a zip code . Just get rid of them.

I thought most zip codes had two teams to choose from.

The zip code rules prevent nutjobs from forming unfair super teams.

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Anonymous wrote:Zip code rules force kids to play for teams and coaches they prefer not to if given the choice, especially if there is only one club fielding a team in a zip code . Just get rid of them.

I thought most zip codes had two teams to choose from.

The zip code rules prevent nutjobs from forming unfair super teams.

That’s not happening. But, we have nut job run organizations that talented kids don’t want to play with (like CYA).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Zip code rules force kids to play for teams and coaches they prefer not to if given the choice, especially if there is only one club fielding a team in a zip code . Just get rid of them.

I thought most zip codes had two teams to choose from.

The zip code rules prevent nutjobs from forming unfair super teams.

Yes, if the league actually enforced the rules.

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Anonymous wrote:Zip code rules force kids to play for teams and coaches they prefer not to if given the choice, especially if there is only one club fielding a team in a zip code . Just get rid of them.

I thought most zip codes had two teams to choose from.

The zip code rules prevent nutjobs from forming unfair super teams.

That’s not happening. But, we have nut job run organizations that talented kids don’t want to play with (like CYA).

Dude, I'm sorry your kid didn't make the CYA teams. They are all terrible this year so obvious they are not choosing the best available and why would you want your kid on a bad team anyway? Every zip code has multiple options or your kid can make a team as an out of zip exception. Not sure why you are so obsessed with CYA.

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Anonymous wrote:Zip code rules force kids to play for teams and coaches they prefer not to if given the choice, especially if there is only one club fielding a team in a zip code . Just get rid of them.

I thought most zip codes had two teams to choose from.

The zip code rules prevent nutjobs from forming unfair super teams.

That’s not happening. But, we have nut job run organizations that talented kids don’t want to play with (like CYA).

Dude, I'm sorry your kid didn't make the CYA teams. They are all terrible this year so obvious they are not choosing the best available and why would you want your kid on a bad team anyway? Every zip code has multiple options or your kid can make a team as an out of zip exception. Not sure why you are so obsessed with CYA.

To be fair, number of CYA teams are doing well/fine this year (incl. girls side) - about the same as other organizations. Most organizations have teams rise/fall each year due to new players etc. Arlington is the only one that's consistently good across all divisions because they pull from a lot more kids.

And zip code exceptions provide each team the ability to add player or two from outside zip. But keeps aau/super teams from being formed and ruining the competitiveness of the league. But they only work when the league actually ENFORCES them. This honor system stuff is not working...

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I just looked and a cya boys team lost a game 3-58.

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Anonymous wrote:I just looked and a cya boys team lost a game 3-58.

Oh, please. That has to be a typo.

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Anonymous wrote:Zip code rules force kids to play for teams and coaches they prefer not to if given the choice, especially if there is only one club fielding a team in a zip code . Just get rid of them.

I thought most zip codes had two teams to choose from.

The zip code rules prevent nutjobs from forming unfair super teams.

That’s not happening. But, we have nut job run organizations that talented kids don’t want to play with (like CYA).

Dude, I'm sorry your kid didn't make the CYA teams. They are all terrible this year so obvious they are not choosing the best available and why would you want your kid on a bad team anyway? Every zip code has multiple options or your kid can make a team as an out of zip exception. Not sure why you are so obsessed with CYA.

Maybe their kid is really good and would make the team significantly better?

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Anonymous wrote:I just looked and a cya boys team lost a game 3-58.

Oh, please. That has to be a typo.

Sadly, it is not a typo.

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Anonymous wrote:Zip code rules force kids to play for teams and coaches they prefer not to if given the choice, especially if there is only one club fielding a team in a zip code . Just get rid of them.

I thought most zip codes had two teams to choose from.

The zip code rules prevent nutjobs from forming unfair super teams.

Look at the eastern part of the county, zip codes may have multiple clubs, but a lot are either defunct or not fielding teams. Some only have one, so if your kid doesn't want to play for a yeller or a dad coach who insists there kid is the star, those kids are SOL.

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Isn't that why each team gets two zip code exceptions, though? A kid who is a good player can get on a nearby team.

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Anonymous wrote:I just looked and a cya boys team lost a game 3-58.

Oh, please. That has to be a typo.

Sadly, it is not a typo.

I hope the league enforced their own rule and suspended that coach for a game. That's absurd.

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The league isn’t enforcing any rules this year so I guess not.