Anonymous
Post 02/24/2025 14:06     Subject: FCPS Basketball
McLean is the worst. Most of those girls don’t even live in McLean.
Anonymous
Post 02/21/2025 18:32     Subject: FCPS Basketball
Anonymous wrote:Vienna notoriously tries to break the rules in county select. They are terrible.


Worse than McLean on the boys side?
Anonymous
Post 02/21/2025 13:38     Subject: FCPS Basketball
This is why a girl can’t break into a county team in Vienna. You have to have somehow hooked up with the right team at second grade.
Anonymous
Post 02/21/2025 13:35     Subject: FCPS Basketball
Vienna notoriously tries to break the rules in county select. They are terrible.
Anonymous
Post 02/21/2025 12:58     Subject: FCPS Basketball
Anonymous wrote:Girls county basketball can be a real mess. I have a DD on a 5th grade team, and we were doing great until we played the Vienna 5th grade teams (Vienna has two teams, and they are in first and second place). Both teams are basically AAU teams that have played together for years. They use their two zip code exceptions to bring in AAU girls that are almost too good for their age groups. It is completely one sided when the zip code exceptions go to AAU players.


All zip code exceptions go to aau players, hon.
Thats the way the league is.
Anonymous
Post 02/21/2025 12:40     Subject: FCPS Basketball
Girls county basketball can be a real mess. I have a DD on a 5th grade team, and we were doing great until we played the Vienna 5th grade teams (Vienna has two teams, and they are in first and second place). Both teams are basically AAU teams that have played together for years. They use their two zip code exceptions to bring in AAU girls that are almost too good for their age groups. It is completely one sided when the zip code exceptions go to AAU players.
Anonymous
Post 02/20/2025 01:51     Subject: FCPS Basketball
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:+1 that 2 years on JV is not promising.


I don’t get it. Isn’t JV typically grades 9 and 10?


Basketball (alongside Football and Volleyball) is a sport that offers a Freshmen team in addition to JV and Varsity (at least in FCPS). Because of this, you only generally see Freshmen on JV teams if they're sufficiently advanced that the program believes that they may be able to contribute to success at the Varsity level as a sophomore

In other sports that do not offer a Freshmen team, 2 years (or even 3) on the JV level is not considered to be as underwhelming.


But why would they need to contribute to varsity as a sophomore rather than as a junior? What is the point of putting sophomores on varsity unless you don’t have a sufficient number of good juniors and seniors?


In the situation I’m describing, the sophomores are markedly better than enough of the juniors and/or seniors that they can help the team win by that age. And the head coach foresees that when the player is a freshman.


This still doesn’t answer the question, nor does the response of the PP above you.

It makes literally no sense to write a kid off if he isn’t markedly better than most of the juniors or seniors until he is a junior or senior. One would think this would be obvious.


Then we’re talking about two different situations.
Anonymous
Post 02/19/2025 08:21     Subject: FCPS Basketball
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Is there a site where they keep the scores/standings for the middle school fcps?


Basketball is not a MS sport in FCPS.


For some schools it is this year, and I meant for the schools that do have it this season. Surely they are keeping track of thing somewhere?


Our school had a "basketball team" that played a few very casual games in fall. It was certainly nothing like an actual school sport and I highly doubt anyone is tracking scores-why would they? They are completely meaningless.
Anonymous
Post 02/18/2025 20:38     Subject: FCPS Basketball
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:+1 that 2 years on JV is not promising.


I don’t get it. Isn’t JV typically grades 9 and 10?


Basketball (alongside Football and Volleyball) is a sport that offers a Freshmen team in addition to JV and Varsity (at least in FCPS). Because of this, you only generally see Freshmen on JV teams if they're sufficiently advanced that the program believes that they may be able to contribute to success at the Varsity level as a sophomore

In other sports that do not offer a Freshmen team, 2 years (or even 3) on the JV level is not considered to be as underwhelming.


But why would they need to contribute to varsity as a sophomore rather than as a junior? What is the point of putting sophomores on varsity unless you don’t have a sufficient number of good juniors and seniors?


In the situation I’m describing, the sophomores are markedly better than enough of the juniors and/or seniors that they can help the team win by that age. And the head coach foresees that when the player is a freshman.


This still doesn’t answer the question, nor does the response of the PP above you.

It makes literally no sense to write a kid off if he isn’t markedly better than most of the juniors or seniors until he is a junior or senior. One would think this would be obvious.
Anonymous
Post 02/18/2025 16:17     Subject: FCPS Basketball
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Is there a site where they keep the scores/standings for the middle school fcps?


Basketball is not a MS sport in FCPS.


For some schools it is this year, and I meant for the schools that do have it this season. Surely they are keeping track of thing somewhere?
Anonymous
Post 02/18/2025 16:15     Subject: FCPS Basketball
Anonymous wrote:Is there a site where they keep the scores/standings for the middle school fcps?


Basketball is not a MS sport in FCPS.
Anonymous
Post 02/18/2025 16:09     Subject: FCPS Basketball
Is there a site where they keep the scores/standings for the middle school fcps?
Anonymous
Post 02/14/2025 15:36     Subject: FCPS Basketball
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:+1 that 2 years on JV is not promising.


I don’t get it. Isn’t JV typically grades 9 and 10?


Basketball (alongside Football and Volleyball) is a sport that offers a Freshmen team in addition to JV and Varsity (at least in FCPS). Because of this, you only generally see Freshmen on JV teams if they're sufficiently advanced that the program believes that they may be able to contribute to success at the Varsity level as a sophomore

In other sports that do not offer a Freshmen team, 2 years (or even 3) on the JV level is not considered to be as underwhelming.


But why would they need to contribute to varsity as a sophomore rather than as a junior? What is the point of putting sophomores on varsity unless you don’t have a sufficient number of good juniors and seniors?


In the situation I’m describing, the sophomores are markedly better than enough of the juniors and/or seniors that they can help the team win by that age. And the head coach foresees that when the player is a freshman.
Anonymous
Post 02/14/2025 15:35     Subject: FCPS Basketball
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:+1 that 2 years on JV is not promising.


I don’t get it. Isn’t JV typically grades 9 and 10?


Basketball (alongside Football and Volleyball) is a sport that offers a Freshmen team in addition to JV and Varsity (at least in FCPS). Because of this, you only generally see Freshmen on JV teams if they're sufficiently advanced that the program believes that they may be able to contribute to success at the Varsity level as a sophomore

In other sports that do not offer a Freshmen team, 2 years (or even 3) on the JV level is not considered to be as underwhelming.


But why would they need to contribute to varsity as a sophomore rather than as a junior? What is the point of putting sophomores on varsity unless you don’t have a sufficient number of good juniors and seniors?


For players likely to be very good as juniors or seniors, skipping the freshman team and playing JV is a way to play better competition sooner and develop faster. Then playing varsity as a sophomore they train every day against varsity players. The downside is a lot of time on the bench as sophomores.
Anonymous
Post 02/12/2025 17:41     Subject: FCPS Basketball
Girls is a totally different situation then boys.
Absurdly easy to make girls teams compsred to boys.