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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"What you have to do is direct everyone's efforts toward being sure those kids help the high school win in 8 or 10 years. That means learning to win now and shaping the team to develop their talents. "

Because if the high school loses what exactly happens? There is an obesity epidemic because of children dropping out of sports due to coaches like you who only focus on the best kids. That is a national issue. Whether a high school team wins or loses is not a national issue or even a local one.[/quote]

It's a pretty huge issue where I live. Just the other day the old-timers at the bar had a 45-minute debate over whether John Yates should have gone to the 4-corners against Martinsville from the get-go in the '76 state championship (which Martinsville won by 8 with a score in the low 60s). Of course, you were probably playing NBA 15 on PlayStation rather than appreciating the history of the game.

It's also a pretty huge issue to college basketball recruiters. A lot more kids are getting scholarship money to play basketball then they are to "fight obesity".

Plus, there's nothing stopping these other kids from skipping that fourth cheeseburger at McD's after school, or saying "you know what, I think I'll have some vitamin water rather than the Big Gulp". But, you know, it's not trophies for participation that lead to failure--it's coaches like me who push kids to get better and to support the stars. Got it -- loser.[/quote]

Got it, yes. You clearly are trolling us. You have to be. You job as 8-9 year old rec coach is NOT to prepare them to be high school stars. Your job is to teach ALL of them how to play the game. That's why it is called a REC league.

And coaches like you do not have the crystal ball you think you have, or the ability to "spot" talent. Last year, my son was with a different coach who emphasized teamwork and he excelled. He is a very good player. Now he is with this new dips hit coach who has had mostly the same kids for three years and he play sonly them because he thinks like you do. And so all the other kids are suffering.

Arghhh. And I did coach. I coached AAU girls for years. And no one with half a brain thought like you, "Coach.[/quote]

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