Arlington travel tryouts?

[Anonymous]

The county travel team should be prioritized over other sports *during the winter season*. Yes, kids have football winding down that bleeds over for a week. But it is almost universally accepted that kids should be prirotizing their county team practices and games during that season.

Maybe your son is just such a super star that the normal courtesies and expectations didn't apply, or maybe you were oblivious.

[Anonymous]

I honestly can’t even imagine being such a busy body that I would have ever known which kids on my kid’s team missed x number of practices for whatever reason. That’s between the player, coaches, and (sometimes) the parents. The rest of the team’s parents should consider minding their own business.

[Anonymous]

As a former FCYBL coach and parent, I will side with the "prioritize FCYBL" comments for most of the reasons above. We made that clear before tryouts -- once basketball season starts, basketball is your priority. If you regularly miss practice, that WILL affect your playing time. If you weren't willing to prioritize basketball, our teams weren't for you, and we have a great rec league for you.

I don't understand why some parents can't grasp this. Your kids will have to make choices the rest of their life, and those choices will have consequences. You can't do everything you want to how and when you want to do it. You're doing your kids a disservice by not teaching them this, even in 5th grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This isn't that surprising. In the winter of 2020-21, when the decision not to play basketball was made it caused a huge rift in the organization. Lots of the more organized directors left (along with coaches) and the organization has been a walking disaster since. The replacements have been very much driven by the old school political correctness which has transformed into "equity."

Two other tidbits:
1) The 7th and 8th grade teams are basically set. There was no announcements of open gyms for those grades unlike the 5th and 6th grade. Take that for what you will.

2) At least on the boy's side, unless your kid is really tall, he better play Arlington Storm baseball because both Storm and ATB are heavily intertwined with each other. Lots of hand shake deals to get kids on ATB from Storm baseball for boys that have no earthly right to be on the ATB team. And this is coming from a parent that has had 2 sons play or are playing in ATB right now. I would have done almost anything to get them out of this environment but Arlington kids are ineligible from playing on other Fairfax team.

As for coaching with the assumption everything stays the same. The 5th grade A coach is very good. Can really develop talent. 5B coaches are okay. The 6A coach is terrible. He's probably worse than his dad who got fired as HC from Georgetown. The 7A coach is okay nothing to write home about. Seems to always get inside his own head. I'm assuming the 7B coach will move up to 8B because that's the only way his kid (and a couple of his friends) will make the team. He is the epitome of a Dad coach. 8A coach is decent and can build for HS.

So is this basically Cyclones basketball 2.0? How disappointing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a former FCYBL coach and parent, I will side with the "prioritize FCYBL" comments for most of the reasons above. We made that clear before tryouts -- once basketball season starts, basketball is your priority. If you regularly miss practice, that WILL affect your playing time. If you weren't willing to prioritize basketball, our teams weren't for you, and we have a great rec league for you.

I don't understand why some parents can't grasp this. Your kids will have to make choices the rest of their life, and those choices will have consequences. You can't do everything you want to how and when you want to do it. You're doing your kids a disservice by not teaching them this, even in 5th grade.

Hope you attained that desperately needed validation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As a former FCYBL coach and parent, I will side with the "prioritize FCYBL" comments for most of the reasons above. We made that clear before tryouts -- once basketball season starts, basketball is your priority. If you regularly miss practice, that WILL affect your playing time. If you weren't willing to prioritize basketball, our teams weren't for you, and we have a great rec league for you.

I don't understand why some parents can't grasp this. Your kids will have to make choices the rest of their life, and those choices will have consequences. You can't do everything you want to how and when you want to do it. You're doing your kids a disservice by not teaching them this, even in 5th grade.

Hope you attained that desperately needed validation.

Wow and yikes. That coach volunteered tons of his free time for the benefit of other people's kids.

Its incredibly obnoxious for parents to overbook their kids on sports and activities and take volunteers' time for granted. Don't go into a season planning not to honor your time commitment. Teach your kids better manners than that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As a former FCYBL coach and parent, I will side with the "prioritize FCYBL" comments for most of the reasons above. We made that clear before tryouts -- once basketball season starts, basketball is your priority. If you regularly miss practice, that WILL affect your playing time. If you weren't willing to prioritize basketball, our teams weren't for you, and we have a great rec league for you.

I don't understand why some parents can't grasp this. Your kids will have to make choices the rest of their life, and those choices will have consequences. You can't do everything you want to how and when you want to do it. You're doing your kids a disservice by not teaching them this, even in 5th grade.

Hope you attained that desperately needed validation.

Its frustrating when everyone disagrees with you, huh? You fully expected no one would have an issue with little Larlo missing lowly county team practices to practice with his "prestigious" AAU team and just popping in for county games. After all, everyone is busy, right?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As a former FCYBL coach and parent, I will side with the "prioritize FCYBL" comments for most of the reasons above. We made that clear before tryouts -- once basketball season starts, basketball is your priority. If you regularly miss practice, that WILL affect your playing time. If you weren't willing to prioritize basketball, our teams weren't for you, and we have a great rec league for you.

I don't understand why some parents can't grasp this. Your kids will have to make choices the rest of their life, and those choices will have consequences. You can't do everything you want to how and when you want to do it. You're doing your kids a disservice by not teaching them this, even in 5th grade.

Hope you attained that desperately needed validation.

Its frustrating when everyone disagrees with you, huh? You fully expected no one would have an issue with little Larlo missing lowly county team practices to practice with his "prestigious" AAU team and just popping in for county games. After all, everyone is busy, right?

That PP isn't even talking about low end rec (where kids miss all the time - I coach rec) but select where it has been told to kids you can't miss practice.

And, like I said. Kid misses practice and gets reduce playing time I support. But, wait until you come across the kid that misses practices (because he has AAU or baseball or lax or something else) and doesn't see his practice time reduced. That's the one the will drive you nuts.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As a former FCYBL coach and parent, I will side with the "prioritize FCYBL" comments for most of the reasons above. We made that clear before tryouts -- once basketball season starts, basketball is your priority. If you regularly miss practice, that WILL affect your playing time. If you weren't willing to prioritize basketball, our teams weren't for you, and we have a great rec league for you.

I don't understand why some parents can't grasp this. Your kids will have to make choices the rest of their life, and those choices will have consequences. You can't do everything you want to how and when you want to do it. You're doing your kids a disservice by not teaching them this, even in 5th grade.

Hope you attained that desperately needed validation.

Its frustrating when everyone disagrees with you, huh? You fully expected no one would have an issue with little Larlo missing lowly county team practices to practice with his "prestigious" AAU team and just popping in for county games. After all, everyone is busy, right?

That PP isn't even talking about low end rec (where kids miss all the time - I coach rec) but select where it has been told to kids you can't miss practice.

And, like I said. Kid misses practice and gets reduce playing time I support. But, wait until you come across the kid that misses practices (because he has AAU or baseball or lax or something else) and doesn't see his practice time reduced. That's the one the will drive you nuts.

But WHY would that drive you nuts? If it’s a competitive team as you seem to think it is, why on Earth should face time at practice trump performance on the court? (And why are you monitoring what the other kids are doing?). This is some middle-manager thinking.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As a former FCYBL coach and parent, I will side with the "prioritize FCYBL" comments for most of the reasons above. We made that clear before tryouts -- once basketball season starts, basketball is your priority. If you regularly miss practice, that WILL affect your playing time. If you weren't willing to prioritize basketball, our teams weren't for you, and we have a great rec league for you.

I don't understand why some parents can't grasp this. Your kids will have to make choices the rest of their life, and those choices will have consequences. You can't do everything you want to how and when you want to do it. You're doing your kids a disservice by not teaching them this, even in 5th grade.

Hope you attained that desperately needed validation.

Its frustrating when everyone disagrees with you, huh? You fully expected no one would have an issue with little Larlo missing lowly county team practices to practice with his "prestigious" AAU team and just popping in for county games. After all, everyone is busy, right?

That PP isn't even talking about low end rec (where kids miss all the time - I coach rec) but select where it has been told to kids you can't miss practice.

And, like I said. Kid misses practice and gets reduce playing time I support. But, wait until you come across the kid that misses practices (because he has AAU or baseball or lax or something else) and doesn't see his practice time reduced. That's the one the will drive you nuts.

But WHY would that drive you nuts? If it’s a competitive team as you seem to think it is, why on Earth should face time at practice trump performance on the court? (And why are you monitoring what the other kids are doing?). This is some middle-manager thinking.

Should be game time. Not practice time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As a former FCYBL coach and parent, I will side with the "prioritize FCYBL" comments for most of the reasons above. We made that clear before tryouts -- once basketball season starts, basketball is your priority. If you regularly miss practice, that WILL affect your playing time. If you weren't willing to prioritize basketball, our teams weren't for you, and we have a great rec league for you.

I don't understand why some parents can't grasp this. Your kids will have to make choices the rest of their life, and those choices will have consequences. You can't do everything you want to how and when you want to do it. You're doing your kids a disservice by not teaching them this, even in 5th grade.

Hope you attained that desperately needed validation.

Its frustrating when everyone disagrees with you, huh? You fully expected no one would have an issue with little Larlo missing lowly county team practices to practice with his "prestigious" AAU team and just popping in for county games. After all, everyone is busy, right?

That PP isn't even talking about low end rec (where kids miss all the time - I coach rec) but select where it has been told to kids you can't miss practice.

And, like I said. Kid misses practice and gets reduce playing time I support. But, wait until you come across the kid that misses practices (because he has AAU or baseball or lax or something else) and doesn't see his practice time reduced. That's the one the will drive you nuts.

But WHY would that drive you nuts? If it’s a competitive team as you seem to think it is, why on Earth should face time at practice trump performance on the court? (And why are you monitoring what the other kids are doing?). This is some middle-manager thinking.

Should be game time. Not practice time.

Understood. The question remains. Is this a competitive team or isn’t it? If it is, shouldn’t the best competitors be the ones to compete, not necessarily the kids with the best work ethic, most dedication, and/or most practice time?

If your kid was on their high school math team and studied hard every day, went to every coaching session, and generally worked their butt off to be pretty good at math, should they make the “A” team over the kid that didn’t do all of that work but also consistently got the questions correct in the fastest time?

When we say “competitive” we mean playing to win, correct?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As a former FCYBL coach and parent, I will side with the "prioritize FCYBL" comments for most of the reasons above. We made that clear before tryouts -- once basketball season starts, basketball is your priority. If you regularly miss practice, that WILL affect your playing time. If you weren't willing to prioritize basketball, our teams weren't for you, and we have a great rec league for you.

I don't understand why some parents can't grasp this. Your kids will have to make choices the rest of their life, and those choices will have consequences. You can't do everything you want to how and when you want to do it. You're doing your kids a disservice by not teaching them this, even in 5th grade.

Hope you attained that desperately needed validation.

Its frustrating when everyone disagrees with you, huh? You fully expected no one would have an issue with little Larlo missing lowly county team practices to practice with his "prestigious" AAU team and just popping in for county games. After all, everyone is busy, right?

That PP isn't even talking about low end rec (where kids miss all the time - I coach rec) but select where it has been told to kids you can't miss practice.

And, like I said. Kid misses practice and gets reduce playing time I support. But, wait until you come across the kid that misses practices (because he has AAU or baseball or lax or something else) and doesn't see his practice time reduced. That's the one the will drive you nuts.

But WHY would that drive you nuts? If it’s a competitive team as you seem to think it is, why on Earth should face time at practice trump performance on the court? (And why are you monitoring what the other kids are doing?). This is some middle-manager thinking.

Should be game time. Not practice time.

Understood. The question remains. Is this a competitive team or isn’t it? If it is, shouldn’t the best competitors be the ones to compete, not necessarily the kids with the best work ethic, most dedication, and/or most practice time?

If your kid was on their high school math team and studied hard every day, went to every coaching session, and generally worked their butt off to be pretty good at math, should they make the “A” team over the kid that didn’t do all of that work but also consistently got the questions correct in the fastest time?

When we sa

y “competitive” we mean playing to win, correct?

What you aren't getting about children's basketball is that even the kids who are amazing athletes need to attend practice so they understand all the plays/offenses/defenses/presses the coach plans to call during the game.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
THIS is why some of the better players in Arlington avoid ATB in favor of year-round AAU teams. My son, a former div-1 ATB player, prefers to play AAU and winter house league basketball in DC or MD on very competitive teams.

ATB is, mostly, dominated by NA and daddy. It doesn't have a great reputation in LA. They scoff at ATB.

[Anonymous]

Tryout page recently updated but still no registration link.

https://arlingtontravelbasketball.sportngin.com/page/show/8218123-register-tryouts

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As a former FCYBL coach and parent, I will side with the "prioritize FCYBL" comments for most of the reasons above. We made that clear before tryouts -- once basketball season starts, basketball is your priority. If you regularly miss practice, that WILL affect your playing time. If you weren't willing to prioritize basketball, our teams weren't for you, and we have a great rec league for you.

I don't understand why some parents can't grasp this. Your kids will have to make choices the rest of their life, and those choices will have consequences. You can't do everything you want to how and when you want to do it. You're doing your kids a disservice by not teaching them this, even in 5th grade.

Hope you attained that desperately needed validation.

Its frustrating when everyone disagrees with you, huh? You fully expected no one would have an issue with little Larlo missing lowly county team practices to practice with his "prestigious" AAU team and just popping in for county games. After all, everyone is busy, right?

That PP isn't even talking about low end rec (where kids miss all the time - I coach rec) but select where it has been told to kids you can't miss practice.

And, like I said. Kid misses practice and gets reduce playing time I support. But, wait until you come across the kid that misses practices (because he has AAU or baseball or lax or something else) and doesn't see his practice time reduced. That's the one the will drive you nuts.

But WHY would that drive you nuts? If it’s a competitive team as you seem to think it is, why on Earth should face time at practice trump performance on the court? (And why are you monitoring what the other kids are doing?). This is some middle-manager thinking.

Should be game time. Not practice time.

Understood. The question remains. Is this a competitive team or isn’t it? If it is, shouldn’t the best competitors be the ones to compete, not necessarily the kids with the best work ethic, most dedication, and/or most practice time?

If your kid was on their high school math team and studied hard every day, went to every coaching session, and generally worked their butt off to be pretty good at math, should they make the “A” team over the kid that didn’t do all of that work but also consistently got the questions correct in the fastest time?

When we say “competitive” we mean playing to win, correct?

It’s also a kids’ team, not the NBA. Some of the value is in learning how to be part of a team, which means showing up to practice. They also have to cut so many kids at tryouts, the ones who make it should prioritize it or else let someone else have their spot.