FCYBL-is this allowed?

[Anonymous]

Maybe the Mclean A team kids who were cut got spots on the other team they could try out for in their zip code. Whatever that team is (Great Falls? Arlington? I have no idea)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has anything been reported to the FCYBL? Is this specific to the Boys 7th Grade A team only?
I've been suspecting sham tryouts for a while but everyone seems to think it's common practice. If you make the team in 5th Grade, chances are you'll remain unless you get bumped--which those boys all did. Why have tryouts at all? ???

I don't know anything about how McLean basketball works, but it sounds like some of the "A" players from last season were cut from the "A" team to make room for some of the new coach's AAU players. And the roster being smaller than last season--last year's A team players probably moved down to the B team. Which meant many of last year's B team kids lost their spots, most likely, since FCYBL said no league could have three teams this season.

Silver lining is the McLean B team will probably be much stronger than the other D2 teams...

My son plays on a team that has played the McLean B team several times over the past few years. What's strange is that the B team this year seems substantially weaker than the B team last year. So that makes no sense.

Tournament game.

How do you know? Have you scrimmaged them? The season hasn't started yet... ?

[Anonymous]

to the PP above (quoting got messed up)

- we know from a tournament game.

So who is the AAU coach? It's not Concepcion? The FCYBL lists two assistant coaches.

[Anonymous]

Preseason tournament games are iffy bc you don’t know who is out of town but if the whole team was weak, yeah.

Assistant coach for McLean-AAU coach last name starts with B. His kid is the one who plays on all the teams.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Preseason tournament games are iffy bc you don’t know who is out of town but if the whole team was weak, yeah.

Assistant coach for McLean-AAU coach last name starts with B. His kid is the one who plays on all the teams.

Their full names aren’t on the site. How would I find the AAU team and his name?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Preseason tournament games are iffy bc you don’t know who is out of town but if the whole team was weak, yeah.

Assistant coach for McLean-AAU coach last name starts with B. His kid is the one who plays on all the teams.

Their full names aren’t on the site. How would I find the AAU team and his name?

Just go to Nova page and see from there.

https://instagram.com/nova94feet?utm_medium=copy_link

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Preseason tournament games are iffy bc you don’t know who is out of town but if the whole team was weak, yeah.

Assistant coach for McLean-AAU coach last name starts with B. His kid is the one who plays on all the teams.

I know that prick

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Preseason tournament games are iffy bc you don’t know who is out of town but if the whole team was weak, yeah.

Assistant coach for McLean-AAU coach last name starts with B. His kid is the one who plays on all the teams.

I know that prick

So he is a coach from Nova 94 feet and not from McLean?

[Anonymous]

The head coach for Nova 94 Feet-AAU, last name B____. Is the same person who is the new assistant coach for McLean Select A team. This guy also apparently was the head coach for CYA AAU team last spring/summer. He has a bunch of social media accounts.

[Anonymous]

So much side stepping when details have been explicit. So the issue is Tom Ball brought over his AAU team (Nova94) to play for McLean A?
Where are the pictures that everyone is comparing?

I am only curious because I am trying to learn the ropes of AAU/Select basketball for my own child who just made the team this year (McLean Select) and is interested in playing on an AAU team---

[Anonymous]

This guy coached two years ago in FCYBL, for a Division Three Herndon 5th grade team. (Did they get rid of division 3 for 5th grade??)

My son’s team was pretty terrible and beat that team handily according to the website. I don’t remember this guy or his kid at all though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So much side stepping when details have been explicit. So the issue is Tom Ball brought over his AAU team (Nova94) to play for McLean A?
Where are the pictures that everyone is comparing?

I am only curious because I am trying to learn the ropes of AAU/Select basketball for my own child who just made the team this year (McLean Select) and is interested in playing on an AAU team---

No, Tom ball is the McLean B team coach. He doesn’t seem to be involved in the A team at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This guy coached two years ago in FCYBL, for a Division Three Herndon 5th grade team. (Did they get rid of division 3 for 5th grade??)

My son’s team was pretty terrible and beat that team handily according to the website. I don’t remember this guy or his kid at all though.

They got rid of D3 for every grade except 8th grade boys for whatever reason this year.

Also no 5th grade pool play this season so that whole age group is going to be unbalanced all season. I don’t know why they would get rid of pool play, the system worked well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So much side stepping when details have been explicit. So the issue is Tom Ball brought over his AAU team (Nova94) to play for McLean A?
Where are the pictures that everyone is comparing?

I am only curious because I am trying to learn the ropes of AAU/Select basketball for my own child who just made the team this year (McLean Select) and is interested in playing on an AAU team---

Assuming this is the team
https://www.instagram.com/p/CW2HCTRNF-f/?utm_medium=copy_link

[Anonymous]

Yep. Now compare with a recent photo on the nova 94 feet Instagram.