Comments on: Technical Foul

By: Christian

Christian — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:03:19 +0000

@Prophet Very good points that seem to be unspoken issues-

By: Prophet8

Prophet8 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:15:23 +0000

Then you have issues with coaches living vicariously through one or two of thier players specifically, thus causing “coach hogging” and selfishness and not playing ALL their players to their full potential, i.e. putting older kids on their team to play younger teams in tournaments, SELFISH ! ! ! Can you tell I’m just a bit disgusted? As parents, we will have to change coaches in the best interest of our child and in fairness to the other talented players who are looked over on our childs team.

By: Stormn

Stormn — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:34:12 +0000

Colt: My problem isn’t with the wannabe coaches who take kids and throw them out to play. You will always find club teams who talent range from “excellent” to “what are you doing out there”. My problem are the serious programs who don’t let the kids be kids and live vicariously through them. Championships of NJB or AAU tournaments do not mean anything. What is important is the development that they can move on to jr. high, high school,and hopefully college basketball.

By: Colt

Colt — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:37:24 +0000

Club ball in itself is good, however it has gotten extremely watered down with coaches who aren’t developing players and teacheing them poor habits. It’s definitely not all of the club programs, but all it takes is a few bad apples to ruin the bunch.

By: Stormn

Stormn — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:18:59 +0000

Great story and very accurate. Club ball brings a lot of positives to our children. The learn the game at a progressed rate. They play against great competition and play in tournaments in town and out of town. However, the dedication required leads to the attraction of many overzealous parents who do not understand the importance sportsmanship, teamwork and respect. Too often I have seen parents of one club team getting personal over a rival club team. Too often I have seen parents overly hard on their children stressing winning at all costs. I have seen parents cheat by letting their kids play in division below their age group and lie about their son’s age.

What does it teach our children? That winning at all cost is the most important thing. It also teaches disrespect for you team mates and a sense of entitlement for the better players. The players start thinking they are stars and they act like it. Even though they may just be 10years old and are a long ways from being a star.

Club ball is has a lot of great benefits, but please parents, our glory days are over. Please do not try to relive them through our children. And more importantly for those parents who teach win at all costs…..It will be real sad if your child’s glory days occurred when he was 10 years old.

By: PositiveJay

PositiveJay — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:39:37 +0000

Wow, that was very profound, i never thought about it that deeply,i just assumed that the person being negative was a loser,but that article is 100 percent correct, and sometimes we should look at the man in the mirror before being critical of others,well done!

By: proud parent

proud parent — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:41:16 +0000

I applaud you for this article! So many times I hear parents in the background talking badly about other players. How are our children suppose to learn about good sportsmanship and being a team player if they hear their own parents or other parents talk badly about another player. We need to encourage our children after every game, after every practice, whether they can play or not, “good job!” or “good game!” especially the younger ones. We as parents should be more aware in using constructive critcism with our own children and not demean or disrepectfully discourage them, no matter what age.