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Anonymous wrote:Obviously, height is important in basketball. But on my son's private school team there are a surprising number of very skilled shorter kids on the team. My son is a legit 6-2 (meaning he is about as tall as many basketball recruits in the DMV who claim they are 6-4), and he was taller than all but a few kids on the team last year. Granted, he is not at PVI, but this is a real team. All of these super-skilled little guys are serious AAU players, and most of them them do not play much on varsity, but they are on the varsity. The local publics are loaded with shorter players (say 6-1 and under). Many teams have no size at all, probably because almost all the bigs have been recruited to the private schools.

Isn't it much easier to make most private school basketball teams vs. public school teams? A 3000 student public high school has a lot more kids trying out than a 400 student private school.

Not exactly.

Some will have small class sizes and bad varsity teams.


But MANY recruit like crazy. So many have amazing teams that would destroy most public HS. Sideell, Gonzaga, Bullis, SJC, Occinel, Macnamara, Blue Ridge, Paul6, Eoiscopal, etc….


Even though these school have small classes, they will pull out the best kids from Public school to play their teams.

So if your kid is 14, 6’8 and plays on an EYBL team, they will be at Gonzaga, Bullis, Paul 6 etc. no way they stay in public.

Anonymous wrote:A freshman playing fall league JV is very unlikely to make Varsity freshman year at a large public HS. If he was A-MAZ-ING, which you have to be to get on Varsity as a freshman, the coaches would want him playing on the fall league Varsity team.

But he'd make it as a sophomore is the point

A freshman playing fall league JV is very unlikely to make Varsity freshman year at a large public HS. If he was A-MAZ-ING, which you have to be to get on Varsity as a freshman, the coaches would want him playing on the fall league Varsity team.

Anonymous wrote:My kid's very large FCPS public has a freshman fall team that was basically open signup--many of those kids will not make the freshman team. No one on the freshman fall league team will make JV.

The JV team was also open to any sophomores and they put one 9th grader on that team-he will make the JV team when he tries out. Most kids have the self awareness by sophomore year not to participate if they aren't a returning player or have a good chance of making the team. No one on this team will make Varsity.

The Varsity team is all returning Varsity players and kids very likely to move up to Varsity, if there is room for them.

False. A freshman playing JV has future chances of making Varsity.

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Anonymous wrote:So is it possible to move up a level from placement on fall league?

Possible yes if he/she is that one kid that improved or grew a lot.

A kid isn't going to improve a lot or grow a lot from August-end of October. Fall league teams aren't even coached and are basically just pickup games.

My kid's very large FCPS public has a freshman fall team that was basically open signup--many of those kids will not make the freshman team. No one on the freshman fall league team will make JV.

The JV team was also open to any sophomores and they put one 9th grader on that team-he will make the JV team when he tries out. Most kids have the self awareness by sophomore year not to participate if they aren't a returning player or have a good chance of making the team. No one on this team will make Varsity.

The Varsity team is all returning Varsity players and kids very likely to move up to Varsity, if there is room for them.

Anonymous wrote:So is it possible to move up a level from placement on fall league?

Possible yes if he/she is that one kid that improved or grew a lot.

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Anonymous wrote:Do kids typically know in the fall what team they'll make?

You mean kids trying out for their local public HS basketball teams?

Yes. I was wondering since public schools in NOVA go in a fall league and players are split between jv, freshman and varsity.

No. The fall league is an extended tryout. Several kids got cut from my son's varsity fall league team, and one was added who the coach didn't know about--he had recently moved to the area. Football players don't participate in fall league either, so that is always an added uncertainty.

Is this a VA public school? The HS coaches aren't supposed to be coaching the teams in fall league. (Let alone cutting kids). MD or DC might have different rules I dont know

Anonymous wrote:So is it possible to move up a level from placement on fall league?

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Its possible but extremely unlikely.

Our FCPS public hs lets kids participate on 9th and JV fall league teams and attend fall league green days who will definitely not make the JV or freshman teams. The Varsity fall league team is invite only,

The boys doing fall sports (football, cross country, volleyball) can't participate, so its hard to judge where your kid stands when a lot of the other competition isn't playing fall league.

The only kids who will FOR SURE make the teams are (1) the kids returning who were on varsity last year and (2) any 10th graders who played on the JV or Varsity teams as a freshman.

Everyone else is fighting for spots. My ds's program also has a few transfers who seem to be slated to take Varsity spots as well. Basketball roster math is brutal.

So is it possible to move up a level from placement on fall league?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do kids typically know in the fall what team they'll make?

You mean kids trying out for their local public HS basketball teams?

Yes. I was wondering since public schools in NOVA go in a fall league and players are split between jv, freshman and varsity.

No. The fall league is an extended tryout. Several kids got cut from my son's varsity fall league team, and one was added who the coach didn't know about--he had recently moved to the area. Football players don't participate in fall league either, so that is always an added uncertainty.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do kids typically know in the fall what team they'll make?

You mean kids trying out for their local public HS basketball teams?

Yes. I was wondering since public schools in NOVA go in a fall league and players are split between jv, freshman and varsity.

Anonymous wrote:Do kids typically know in the fall what team they'll make?

You mean kids trying out for their local public HS basketball teams?

Do kids typically know in the fall what team they'll make?