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Mtnbiker

Posted 10:37 pm, 11/07/2009

with basketball you'd still be on the team

with gymnastics, not so much

bushkisser

Posted 10:36 pm, 11/07/2009

if you went to try out for the olympic basketball team, but you spring your ankle and couldnt try out, , Would you be on the olympic team ? Well heck no you wouldnt! Same thing ! Whats the differance? You couldnt try out! Ole, Rules are made to be broken for certain ones, thats what you are saying right? How can you make the team with a 0 performance? I know it is bad, it was a bad time for it to happen, I guess it is somebody elses time to be the best player for a while, lmao ! Theirs no question about it This needs to be looked into by the school board!

bigmomma05

Posted 10:22 pm, 11/07/2009

I agree that coaching would have to be a hard thing to do. I would not want to be the one to tell the kids they did not make the team. I know of the kid who has the broken leg through my son and watching him in rec ball. He is a good ball player and I hate to see someone throw off on the kid because he has a hurt leg and was not able to try out. Like I said my son did not make the team and he says that the kid with the hurt leg is a better player than him and he hopes that the kid gets to play. I think that the person who posted this has poor sportsmanship and should be considerate of others. just be proud of your son that did not make the team and keep encouraging him to practice. This is whatt I am doing with my son.

kscottbailey

Posted 8:05 pm, 11/07/2009

I have to say, that's the dumbest thing I've heard yet in this thread, Bushkisser. You're really saying that if the best player on the basketball team sprains his ankle in the last football game, and can't attend tryouts, that he shouldn't make the team? That just goes to show that you've clearly never been a coach, and probably never played sports.

BushKisser

Posted 7:55 pm, 11/07/2009

I will have to say, "if you cant try out, you shouldnt make the team" That should be the bottom line, and these coaches should be taken a good look at by the adminstration!

kmcneil1

Posted 5:43 pm, 11/07/2009

I happen to know both the coaches at Central Middle School and know them to be fair and considerate people. Coahing jobs aren't easy and if anybody thinks they can do a better job- then go ahead and volunteer your time and see how much "flack" you can take. I understand this young man although injured has a repuation of being a very good basketball player who also played AAU traveling ball. Why not put this young man on the team with this kind of reputation and talent. He was was put on the team as an alternate player and if he doesn't heal right away he may not even see any playing time on the court . As for the coach giving postive reinforcement, isn't that their job as coach to be positive to all players whether good or bad? Or would parents rather have a coach tell your son/daughter that they suck? Coaching isn't easy- you get complaints if you lose too many games or if you play the same players to have a winning season because your "little Johnny" didn't get enough playing time. My hat is off to the Central Middle School coaches and to all the coachs at all the Middle and High Schools ! Also, remember "youngguns" Michael Jordan didn't make his basketball team at first either !!!!. Your child may excel at something other then sports and you need to reinforce his God given talents not complain because he didn't make a team !!!!

bigmomma05

Posted 2:03 pm, 11/07/2009

Just to let everyone on here know that my son tried out for this team. He was the second tallest to try out. He is 6'1 and he did not make this team. My son tryed out only because I wanted him to. He had the hopes of making the team because this is his last year in the middle school. He played football for the middle school and wanted to try and play as many sports as he could. I am pround of my son for putting forth the effort to try even if he did not make the team. I agree you are right if this kid who has a hurt leg did make the team and did not even try out. That is not fair but I am sure the coach had his reasons for this. I had spoke to the coach the last nite of try outs and he seemed to really nice and had concerns for the ones who would not make the team. He told me that he hoped that the kids that did not make the team would go on to rec ball and not give up. Life is not fair and neither are sports sometimes but I am proud of my son even if he didnot make the team. He went out there and tried his best and for the ones on here causing all the comotion I feel my son has more sportsmans ship than some of you

whitehawk

Posted 09:11 am, 11/07/2009

Just wondering if YOUNGGUNS youngster wasn't chosen because he was using a brain crutch?

kscottbailey

Posted 07:28 am, 11/07/2009

To those who still claim it's "not fair" that a kid who was hurt and couldn't go through tryouts made the team, please answer my scenario. I was the tallest kid (5'11") and best player when I was in junior high. If I had broken my ankle in football, and was still in a cast through the first part of basketball season, are you guys REALLY saying the coach should have cut me in favor of a kid who wasn't as good, JUST because I couldn't participate in tryouts?

brushymtnc

Posted 01:32 am, 11/07/2009

Loser
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

YanksHeels1

Posted 01:07 am, 11/07/2009

Nice post Bushkisser.

BushKisser

Posted 12:29 am, 11/07/2009

That is one of the reasons the people spoke when they voted down the middle schools! And the commissioners and Lowes home improvement built them anyway, while Lowes left town and left the poorest people in the county to pay for them.
these students that are in middle school have 4 basketball teams, thats 20 students that will be a starter on A Wilkes county basketball team.
Where as if we had Fairplains, Mavorain falls, Union, CC Wright, Mt Pleasant, Millers creek, Union Towbship, Mountain view, Roaring river, Boomer, N Wilkesboro, Wilkesboro, Trap Hill, and Mullberry, we would still have 70 starting basketball players at this age, and we would have around 200 students activiely envolved in Elem. School Athletics. vrs the 50 we have now! That makes 150 students that we took out of the program, that may find something else to do with their time, like drugs, or stealing or something ! But i guess the commissioners knew better ! We wanted new schools yes, but not middle schools, the larger cities if they had did their research had already found out at the time we built them, that middle schools were not working out, and they have already started going back to 1-8 and then high school!

Natural_Disaster

Posted 12:14 am, 11/07/2009

Thats a good way to look at it little river...i agree.

ABSHER3

Posted 12:07 am, 11/07/2009

he might have just been put on there for the heck of it...or like someone else suggested he may just be the "manager"

little river

Posted 12:02 am, 11/07/2009

Middle school is at best a difficult time for most students and yes, not being selected for the basketball team is hurtful. They feel rejected and unaccepted but it doesn't last very long. My daughter tried out for the basketball team and was the only student not selected. The coach only wanted twelve players and thirteen went out for the team. I well remember the tears and how unfair it seemed, but the hurt only lasted a couple of days. In the greater picture of life it seems small but at the time it hurts. Just assure the student that liked and many others did not make the team. Tell them how proud you are of them for making the effort and encourage them to try again next year. Its all part of growing up.

Natural_Disaster

Posted 11:21 pm, 11/06/2009

I acutally agree that its wrong to put a kid on the team if they have a cast on their leg and cant try out. First of all, even if the kid played last year, they should still have to try out again, as everyone else. Second of all, if their leg has been broken, after the cast comes off, they will have to spend time getting their muscles back in shape, etc. So if this kid was put on the team to play...he will more than likely drag the first few practices and possibly during the games, if he even gets his cast off that quickly. Its not fair to the other kids who didnt make the team, and its not fair to the team members who need someone able to give 100% during practices and games.
Life may not always be fair, but that doesnt mean people should give up on trying to be fair. What is that teaching the kids?

baratone09

Posted 10:58 pm, 11/06/2009

The same thing happen at West Middle It is who you are and how much money Mom and Dad makes But i have never cared for Mr Church

youngguns

Posted 10:46 pm, 11/06/2009

I am sorry if I have hurt anyones feeling and yes I was hurt (more so than my son) that he did not make the team. But can you mysteriousyoungman say that it was fair that this kid made the team when he never even tried out ? I am sorry but I do not think this was fair

mysteriousyoungman

Posted 10:37 pm, 11/06/2009

Youngguns, it seems no one agrees with you or thinks you have a case. You're just one of those parents, supportive though you are, that sees their kid as the one who should get because they deserve it. Did no one teach you that very simple lesson, "Life is not fair and it never will be."

youngguns

Posted 10:24 pm, 11/06/2009

I was not saying that the coach at the middle school is a bad person or that he takes bribes. I have heard good things about the coach and I know that his job of picking the boys to play would have been hard because I feel that he would have liked for all the boys to have had a chance. All that I was saying is -How does a boy with a hurt leg even make the team without being able to tryout for the team? Is it not required that each student to get out their and tryout? And how did he pass a physical to play with a hurt leg?