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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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.    [/quote]

Hope you attained that desperately needed validation.[/quote]

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?  [/quote]

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. [b]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[/b].[/quote]

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.[/quote]

Should be game time. Not practice time.[/quote]

Understood.  The question remains. [b] 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[/b]?

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? 
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[b]It’s also a kids’ team, not the NBA. [/b]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. [/quote]

Your bolded statement I agree with, which is why I think it’s awful to expect kids (and my involvement in this discussion started with talking about 10 year olds) to give up all of their other interests and activities because otherwise they’re “hurting” their team.  Like you said, they’re kids, it’s not the NBA.

But some of you seem to want kids on allegedly competitive (not everyone gets equal playing time) teams to get “credit” simply for showing up versus actually being better.  A kid could show up to every practice and “get” the plays, but not be capable of executing them.  Another kid might miss the practice where the play was taught and be caught up in two minutes of the coach explaining it to him.  In other words, some kids are just better at some things, and if it’s a competitive team a kid shouldn’t be penalized for missing practice now and then just because some other kids’ parents don’t think it’s fair that he is still better than their kids.  (assuming he has a real conflict, like another sport or band or a tutoring session - blowing off practices because he doesn’t feel like it that day is a different animal IMO).

Honestly, it sounds like some of you guys are the ones who are really struggling with the difference between competitive and rec.[/quote]

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