I will explain it one more time. I said the programs are treated differently by the coaching staffs not the school administrators. Some coaches (baseball) will play the talented players no matter what their grade. Making a team stronger. Some coaches(basketball last year) played 11 seniors to pacify parents not to build a program. Hurting the program for a couple years.
Absolutely correct. Badin has maybe 2 basketball only players on the varsity roster. I would assume most parents and coaches realize this also. So if you are in that position you don’t make decisions like last year. They ran kids off because juniors didn’t want to play jv again when they were more talented than a lot of the 11 seniors. Then you have sophomores not getting a lot of time on jv because sophomores are stuck at the jv level because of the log jam they created at the varsity level. I will give Kreke credit for playing underclassmen up this year. Helped by the fact numbers were down.
Totally agree. One of the major reasons Alter has been elite for many many years is they have, for the most part, basketball only guys. A great athlete like a Doug Penno is capable of pulling off both but they are rare.
I actually didn't say "least" talented, I said lesser talented. Not really butthurt about the coaching, just feel the guy is a solid coach. JMO
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Really. Every yahoo who claims to know basketball says, “We should be running and pressing.” You should play a style that gives you a chance to beat the best teams on your schedule. The other teams will take care of themselves. Your talent dictates style of play. He’s playing with last year’s JV team. No one else in the League is doing that. Bytheway, only a poor coach loads up an average team with all seniors. A big chunk of this year’s problems falls squarely on last year’s coach. If your team is really good, at the very least, most of the guys off the bench should be underclassmen. And, I like Weisgerber also, but that was a mistake. Maybe he looked at it differently knowing it was his last year.
Slight correction to your thesus about Alter. The VAST majority of Alter hoopsters through the years have been multisports guys. This year's early schedule benefitted from a lumpy football season and a 2nd round exit. Every year for the last 20+ m/l had a late start bc of football and thus early season practices are often shorthanded. The basketball only athletes are the exception and generally pertain to the occasional 6'5" plus guy. Even the players who reached the NFL doubled...Can point to one team, in specific, where 8 of 10 guys went football in college, 1/2 D1. Also people outside the program don't really appreciate how significantlyk the UD pipeline has benefitted Alter sports, particularly basketball. First D1 title virtually every kid had a dad who played for Dayton of whom 3 played in the NBA. This is now in its 3rd generation. Bazelak and Uhl fit the pattern. Just opinion but also think Dayton area skews to hoops more than other parts of the state.
Badin has won two gcl titles. 1996 & 2008. It’s right there in the link. GCL in 1996 and GCL central in 2008.
Of course, stand corrected.
They also went up to state twice, think it was 97 and 98? The league was insanely good from the mid 90's through early 2000's. I think they had a run of like 15 years with someone going to the final four during that time. The D-2 Regional was often referred to as the GCL Invitational with 3 teams in it alot of years.
Coulter is a joke. He wins with great players. He’s a pathetic in-game coach. He is despised by Alter fans, and is a detriment to Alter basketball.
Exactly, there were ton's of kids at Alter that were multi-sport. Honestly, that is part of the reason why they are successful.
That’s stupid. Basketball is a skill game. If you want to be good at it you had better be in the gym and not on the football field. Also, Coulter is a very good coach. Their half court offensive stuff is really good. His teams improve every year, even in the years that they didn’t have great success.
Please don't coach children.
So exactly what age should kids pick to specialize in one sport now a days? 4,5,6 years of age. I will make sure when I get home today to tell my son and daughter to pick a sport and quit the rest.
Explain overbooking? They schedule more games than allowed?
Nicely saying, Thurgood either straight up canceled because they didn't want to play or they are still having the trend in DPS of disorganization and un-professionalism...
wonder why thurgood voted for trotwood dunbar and ponitz ahead of alter.......really makes you wonder......
Same reason all those schools and Cincy teams concluded together to vote each other the highest seeds last year for the Covid-shortened season seedings for the playoffs last year to screw over the actual good teams. Alter curb stomped Trotwood and Dunbar last year in football. Massie massacred Thurgood.wonder why thurgood voted for trotwood dunbar and ponitz ahead of alter.......really makes you wonder......
Surely it's not about talent or style... Alter took Princeton to the woodshed Saturday by 30.wonder why thurgood voted for trotwood dunbar and ponitz ahead of alter.......really makes you wonder......
Nice paradox considering it's February. Talk inclusion, walk exclusion. Gore the other guy's ox. Sad bit of sportsmanship.