Anonymous wrote:Also IG post says dad is coach at Katherine Johnson Middle School.

FCPS Middle Schools don't have official basketball teams or basketball coaches. The guy is not an FCPS employee. He put together a team, called it the Middle School Team, and they played a few games so he could claim his kid was the Star of the Middle School Team.

Anyways, it really doesn’t matter y’all. My son plays for a DC AAU team and the Nova94 teams are not that competitive. I mean they do okay when they play in lower class divisions but they’re not elite level in the grand scheme of things. There is always going to be a better kid, better teams. And those teams are going to be stacked. Fair or not, that’s life.

Also IG post says dad is coach at Katherine Johnson Middle School.

Wait, I’m confused. The star kid looks Asian but the coaches look black. Is Coach B not the coach for both teams?

Come on, someone must have been to these tryouts. We want the details!

Anonymous wrote:Has anything been reported to the FCYBL? Is this specific to the Boys 7th Grade A team only?
I've been suspecting sham tryouts for a while but everyone seems to think it's common practice. If you make the team in 5th Grade, chances are you'll remain unless you get bumped--which those boys all did. Why have tryouts at all? ???

I don't know anything about how McLean basketball works, but it sounds like some of the "A" players from last season were cut from the "A" team to make room for some of the new coach's AAU players. And the roster being smaller than last season--last year's A team players probably moved down to the B team. Which meant many of last year's B team kids lost their spots, most likely, since FCYBL said no league could have three teams this season.

Silver lining is the McLean B team will probably be much stronger than the other D2 teams...

The usual situation is, there's a kid who made the team previous years, the coach knows him, he's practiced and played with the team for previous years etc. So an unknown or new kid coming in to tryouts has to be significantly better to take that kid's spot, if the leagues let parent coaches make the decisions and the parents move up with the team each year. So it's not a sham tryout so much as a kid has to be definitely better to make the team then the kids from the last season. And after the handful of great players on each team, even in the larger leagues there isn't really a huge difference between the 6th best kid at tryouts and the 20th best kid at tryouts.

Has anything been reported to the FCYBL? Is this specific to the Boys 7th Grade A team only?
I've been suspecting sham tryouts for a while but everyone seems to think it's common practice. If you make the team in 5th Grade, chances are you'll remain unless you get bumped--which those boys all did. Why have tryouts at all? ???

Anonymous wrote:I'm side-eyeing the judgment of any coach who would run the score up 80-5 or whatever for a preseason tournament. You already won, dude. Get your bench some playing time.

Agree with this. Nothing is worse than a coach that many points ahead who keeps playing his own star kid. Tacky.

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Anonymous wrote:He doesn't just want to win FCYBL games. He wants to completely demolish every other team to prove how amazing his kid is-he is obviously campaigning for private high school team recruitment. The scores don't have an asterisk that say *kid is playing on secretly stacked AAU team*. It will just look like his kid is a superstar scoring 70 points a game.

Is this the same guy who coaches the Samba Boyz SYC soccer team?

I don't know anything about that. Are they 7th graders?

Anonymous wrote:He doesn't just want to win FCYBL games. He wants to completely demolish every other team to prove how amazing his kid is-he is obviously campaigning for private high school team recruitment. The scores don't have an asterisk that say *kid is playing on secretly stacked AAU team*. It will just look like his kid is a superstar scoring 70 points a game.

Is this the same guy who coaches the Samba Boyz SYC soccer team?

I'm side-eyeing the judgment of any coach who would run the score up 80-5 or whatever for a preseason tournament. You already won, dude. Get your bench some playing time.

Basketball is so whack.

You don't have to live in Loudoun County to play on the Loudoun County Elite team. You don't have to live in McLean to play on the McLean Select team. You can just call any old team the Whatever FCPS Middle School team.

Oy, FCYBL is gong to have a lot of headaches this season with this division.

The player in question is obviously very good! I don't understand the need to be shady and dance around the rules and carpetbag an AAU team into McLean when he could just play for his regular zip code team and have competitive games every week. It's not fun for either team when the teams aren't competitive in a game. (Guess it is fun for the dad to watch his kid's team demolish the competition?)

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Anonymous wrote:He doesn't just want to win FCYBL games. He wants to completely demolish every other team to prove how amazing his kid is-he is obviously campaigning for private high school team recruitment. The scores don't have an asterisk that say *kid is playing on secretly stacked AAU team*. It will just look like his kid is a superstar scoring 70 points a game.

Any kid who gets pissed off enough can crowd the superstar every time he's landing after a jump shot or layup and totally derail the private school plan

The rest of us normal parents and coaches aren't insane like this guy. No one would tell their kid to do that.

It's not about anyone telling a kid anything. It's about a kid getting angry off enough that they are on a court losing by 70 and the other team is still playing starters. Middle schoolers don't like being embarrassed.

Yes, the ugliest situations I have seen in sports have been when one team is way way better but keeps running up the score and tempers flair (between the adults sometimes too).