Cupps running point for Reeds team?
Yeah but he’s been only okay. Its been Reed Sheppard and the Cincinnati commit. Bronnie’s team might have chemistry issues only because they added a bunch of 5 stars/no way near the familiarity that Sheppard’s team has with eachother
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Remember when Pitino said Cupps/ Sheppard team ran the best offense he has ever seen in AAU. kinda cool
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Announcers saying colleges should watch Midwest Basketball Club to learn how to play.
https://twitter.com/LesisMoreSports/status/1552103988249731072
https://twitter.com/connorobrien23/status/1552112742877765634
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“There’s Omaha, he’s from Iowa” sounds like an outtake from Forrest Gump:
https://twitter.com/jeffborzello/status/1552076323165769731?s=21&t=mIvmJK02qsWdi8OrIFQBBg
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If this happens and then Kentucky bounces early again they will burn Calipari at the stake.
https://mobile.twitter.com/JackPilgrimKSR/status/1552263311336554496
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Oh lord…this is like KU getting Snoop for their midnight madness…
When snoop was questioned about his less than family oriented entertainment(dancers were apparently working the pole) he responded with “When you request Snoop…you get Snoop”
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Lol. A lot of these end of summer camps popping up
https://mobile.twitter.com/JJAndrews2026/status/1551966451883556864
That’s a lot of money. I’ve joked around with parents with kids getting into sports: there are two good outcomes: (1) the kid is amazing or (2) the kid is terrible. Having a kid who is pretty good at sports seems like a money pit.
(this is 50% TIC, I know there are good outcomes / life lessons / blah blah, that come from sports even if the kid isn’t Mary Lou Retton. But you know what else has life lessons? Library books! )
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Too many people (parents) think $$$s make their kids good. Could talk about this all day ha
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Agreed. I always though a hard one is for parents of kids who are D3 caliber athletes. 99.9% chance the kid will never get a pro tryout but society more or less expects the parents support them to the same level as if they were Olympic swimmers. Makes for a hard balance between supporting dream chasing and practicality.
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Had a buddy who went to a D-III school and knew a guy on the football team taking roids. He was like, really? You’re risking your health to get swole for your D-3 team? Maybe he just wanted to get swole…
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Having kids of various ages and athletic ability I always expose(d) them to all sports. Then you watch from far. If you have a kid who starts working on a sport or two or three on their own thats where you push but not force.
My 7 year old daughter now spends all her day doing something called cart wheels and the splits and other gymnastic stuff all on her own. She keeps asking to go to gymnastics, I am still waiting for the right time…
Edit: the number 1 gift you can give your kids is confidence. I was lucky as my dad was unbelievable at that with me
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I feel bad for parents of high level teen gymnasts, figure skaters and snowboarders who are good enough for national competitions, but not good enough to place in those competitions.
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Or you could be Billy Wagner. Go To a small D 3 school in Va (ferrum) become a 7 time all star and one of the best closers ever in the mlb lol
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Oh yea I advocate playing as may sports as possible at the local level. But when we start talking about travel it gets different. A lot of sports are running you $10k+ per kid these days to play at a competitive travel level. Is that worth it if your kid isn’t a D1 scholarship athlete level? You can gain a lot of the life lessons and bonding just from high school sports. Guess a lot depends on how much discretionary spending you have as a family.
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You can’t get the aau tourney experience with just associations or high school sports.
Showcases etc.. the out of town trips with teammates and chilling in the hotel with kids that become life long friends. Just can’t beat it. It’s worth every penny in my opinion.
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Basically those sports are dominated by upper middle class kids and most of those families already did college savings planning, so a scholarship is just a windfall. I think the goal of a lot of those parents is to improve the application profile enough to help the kid get into a top school, not necessarily to play sports in college.
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