helping your kid deal with the politics of school sports

My nephew is dealing with some of this now. He was by far the best player within a grade level in either direction. Spends his entire summer travelling for AAU and starts for a top 10 national team but the varsity coach has been alarmingly obtuse in several shocking areas. Everyone else on his AAU team plays varsity for their schools and is starting to get scholarship offers and the varsity coach at his school has said in no uncertain terms he isn't interested in bringing up Frosh and Sophs and has made some laughably judgmental/criminal comments about him.

The program is such a joke. Went to State 3 of my 4 years there and the only time since (and its been a few moons) was the Sr year of an NBA player and they lost the 1st game by 30+ points. Anyone that wants to play ball goes elsewhere. A bunch of politicians on high dictating their weird morality over anything basketball related.

It means so much to so many people and yet the people running it know nothing about basketball and only include their circles and have weird justifications for all their BS.

[QUOTE=kunk75]judging by the way you type i am going to guess your academic career didn't extend beyond high school.[/QUOTE]

your on insidehoops retard the fck you expect :oldlol:

I had a similar issue in my first 2 years of high school. Got completely ****ed over because of politics. Transferred to the other school in town and got 1st team all league in my junior and senior years and went 4-0 against my old school. Felt amazing and made up for all the bullshit I went through.

update no one asked for but he wound up getting picked up by a very good aau team that plays on a national level and avg. 27/5/7 for the spring/summer season. he's settled in nicely at the catholic school and is playing for varsity as a soph this year/ getting cut from that bullshit team was one of the best things to happen to him.

[QUOTE=kunk75]update no one asked for but he wound up getting picked up by a very good aau team that plays on a national level and avg. 27/5/7 for the spring/summer season. he's settled in nicely at the catholic school and is playing for varsity as a soph this year/ getting cut from that bullshit team was one of the best things to happen to him.[/QUOTE]

If this is the truth then damn...how are people like this?

Happy for your son. Lots of advice to have him focus on his studies and to not take basketball to seriously but at the same time you don't want it to be one of those things that he holds a grudge over for a long time. Stuff like that can really eat away at a kid.