Anonymous
Post 03/20/2026 16:57     Subject: CYA AAU tryouts
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The freshmen and JV coaches at our fcps school stay cool and collected. They are all around awesome.


I've seen enough basketball coaches now and from what I've seen if you as a coach are not upset/disappointed with your players when they are performing poorly, it usually means one of the following:

1. The talent doesn't exist on the team - so what is there to get upset about, OR
2. You are coaching for the wrong reasons (only looking out for your own players' son/daughters development and not overall team success), OR
3. The coach doesn't want to "piss off" a star player by educating them about player mistakes (the star player should seek out feedback)

I'm sure there are other reasons but these came to mind immediately..


Such nonsense. A coach is an adult and should act like one. Stop coddling and excusing these pathetic man babies. Sorry your kids have had such losers as coaches.


I'm noting what I've observed in the 15 years now of going through multiple teams and coaches for all my kids. Watching March Madness now ... would love to see actual examples of D1 coaches that you describe. If you're only focusing on REC/HOUSE, then we're not in the same league. You can have the soft-spoken coaches
Anonymous
Post 03/19/2026 18:14     Subject: CYA AAU tryouts
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The freshmen and JV coaches at our fcps school stay cool and collected. They are all around awesome.


I've seen enough basketball coaches now and from what I've seen if you as a coach are not upset/disappointed with your players when they are performing poorly, it usually means one of the following:

1. The talent doesn't exist on the team - so what is there to get upset about, OR
2. You are coaching for the wrong reasons (only looking out for your own players' son/daughters development and not overall team success), OR
3. The coach doesn't want to "piss off" a star player by educating them about player mistakes (the star player should seek out feedback)

I'm sure there are other reasons but these came to mind immediately..


Such nonsense. A coach is an adult and should act like one. Stop coddling and excusing these pathetic man babies. Sorry your kids have had such losers as coaches.
Anonymous
Post 03/18/2026 13:50     Subject: CYA AAU tryouts
Give me a break. There’s a difference between being “upset or disappointed,” and completely losing your cool so much so that you get almost thrown out or thrown out of the game. Don’t give men an excuse to blow up and act like it’s because they have more at stake.
Anonymous
Post 03/18/2026 12:43     Subject: CYA AAU tryouts
Anonymous wrote:The freshmen and JV coaches at our fcps school stay cool and collected. They are all around awesome.


I've seen enough basketball coaches now and from what I've seen if you as a coach are not upset/disappointed with your players when they are performing poorly, it usually means one of the following:

1. The talent doesn't exist on the team - so what is there to get upset about, OR
2. You are coaching for the wrong reasons (only looking out for your own players' son/daughters development and not overall team success), OR
3. The coach doesn't want to "piss off" a star player by educating them about player mistakes (the star player should seek out feedback)

I'm sure there are other reasons but these came to mind immediately..
Anonymous
Post 03/11/2026 19:38     Subject: CYA AAU tryouts
The freshmen and JV coaches at our fcps school stay cool and collected. They are all around awesome.
Anonymous
Post 03/11/2026 11:43     Subject: CYA AAU tryouts
Anonymous wrote:I would like to know where you find cool, calm, collected coaches for basketball? Which team/org? Its basketball, not tennis.


Our PPA Premier hoops coach is actually quite cool, calm and collected. He got a little fired up on a few bad calls last tourney, but he is a breath of fresh air compared to all the yelling dads.
Anonymous
Post 03/11/2026 09:14     Subject: CYA AAU tryouts
The 10th grade will have a decent coach. Young guy with no kid on the team and has been around basketball most of his life
Anonymous
Post 03/11/2026 08:52     Subject: CYA AAU tryouts
I would like to know where you find cool, calm, collected coaches for basketball? Which team/org? Its basketball, not tennis.
Anonymous
Post 02/28/2026 20:16     Subject: CYA AAU tryouts
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:They have two coaches: BP and QS. Don't take an offer to play for a team coached by QS. He coached CYA travel and was awful.


CYA isn’t a good basketball organization. You may luck up and get on a decent team but chances of that aren’t good.

I wouldn’t judge a coach by how well he did at CYA. It’s just not fair if that’s what you have to work with.


Rephrase: He had a super short fuse and was a bad coach.
Anonymous
Post 02/28/2026 12:08     Subject: CYA AAU tryouts
Anonymous wrote:They have two coaches: BP and QS. Don't take an offer to play for a team coached by QS. He coached CYA travel and was awful.


CYA isn’t a good basketball organization. You may luck up and get on a decent team but chances of that aren’t good.

I wouldn’t judge a coach by how well he did at CYA. It’s just not fair if that’s what you have to work with.
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2026 10:29     Subject: CYA AAU tryouts
They have two coaches: BP and QS. Don't take an offer to play for a team coached by QS. He coached CYA travel and was awful.

Anonymous
Post 02/27/2026 08:09     Subject: CYA AAU tryouts
Anonymous wrote:NP- you don't need the details from pp. There is only one meaningful way basketball coaches are "nuts", way too intense, screaming at kids, screaming at refs, getting thrown out of games, running terrible practices, not showing up, etc.

FWIW, every coach I have seen mentioned on here as "nuts" who I later saw coach in real life? I agreed with the label.

They could mean a lot of things when they used the term. I’m a new commenter and I want to know what is meant,

I was actually considering taking my kid to a tryout and would like to make a more informed decision.
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2026 07:40     Subject: CYA AAU tryouts
NP- you don't need the details from pp. There is only one meaningful way basketball coaches are "nuts", way too intense, screaming at kids, screaming at refs, getting thrown out of games, running terrible practices, not showing up, etc.

FWIW, every coach I have seen mentioned on here as "nuts" who I later saw coach in real life? I agreed with the label.
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2026 01:45     Subject: CYA AAU tryouts
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:CTS is in the Fairfax/Chantilly area. They will offer a better experience than CYA


They have two coaches. One is nuts. Those aren't good odds.

How is one nuts?
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2026 15:41     Subject: CYA AAU tryouts
Anonymous wrote:CTS is in the Fairfax/Chantilly area. They will offer a better experience than CYA


They have two coaches. One is nuts. Those aren't good odds.