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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rec basketball will never be perfect.  Despite the best efforts to balance the teams (pre-draft evaluations, requiring parents to note practice day conflicts, etc) you will always have kids who have game conflicts (especially when the league won't tell you before the season what days games are). Our 5GG team got destroyed this year b/c our 2 best players had conflicts for between half and 3/4 of the games.[/quote]

Rec games are on Saturdays or Sundays. If your kid has conflicts for most Saturdays or Sundays, its unfair to the other players and coach to sign your kid up to play.[/quote]

Please, we are talking about rec basketball. Most kids have all kinds of priorities weekends that create conflicts. Most kids are happy just having the opportunity to play with their friends and if some of their friends don't make all the games...well, welcome to life when you have to balance priorities.

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Sorry, disagree. Rec sports are important to the kids and coaches who play them. Princess Larla dropping in twice all season for fun is obnoxious.[/quote]

We are talking rec basketball, not CYO, not travel and not AAU. REC. it is about fun and playing with your buddies. Your coaches comment is hilarious in how naive it is. Most rec coaches are fine with travel kids practice participation becaue they know they don't have to explain  what 5 out is  or what a diamond and 1 press or any number of things a tec coach has to repeatedly tell/coach rec only kids.

Are you upset said travel players take your kids playing time but isnt at practice.. Sorry that's what rec is about. Playing with your friends. If you don't like it, coach your own team and don't let travel players on it. Good luck with that.[/quote]

Wow, no, that's not what rec teams are for the kids who aren't travel players. If this is the attitude that travel families are going to have "this is just for fin, it doesn't matter", then travel players shouldn't be allowed on rec teams. Way to ruin the experience for all the other kids. Your snooty a-hole of a kid doesn't belong.[/quote]

So when I say "travel" players, I'm not restricting this to just travel basketball players but kids that play travel sports from hockey to lacrosse to soccer, etc. Sorry for the confusion. The divisions are set up so that the more competitive and athletic kids play against each other in the top division. These are all kids that play other travel sports but might not be quite good enough to play travel or AAU basketball. While less athletic kids play against kids of comparable level. This way you don't have the really good athletes tool on less athletic kids. This way it is fair competition.

Arlington does restrict travel players to 1 a team and certain restrictions on playing time. So as I said, in Arlington, Rec is for playing with your friends against comparable skilled teams. Arlington can get away with this because they have up to 4 divisions of 8 teams and a waiting list of kids wanting to play.[/quote]

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