GurlzBBallFan

My daughter will not be able to attend the August 23rd open gym. Will there be additional open gyms in the future? I've heard many good things about the program and would like to at least get her to an open gym before the team is selected. She is in 8th grade.

Made me think of the old CSN&Y song. "Teach your children well." There are many things that can fall into this same line of thinking such as coaches tempers setting bad examples, profanity and poor conduct from coaches and parents alike, lack of commitment by players, families and coaches, lack of focus on making the kids better, or quitting in the middle of season or even at a national event.

She is just a 15 year old kid and everyone needs to let it go. If you have proof she was recruited, report it or just let it go.

I applaud TN AAU for wanting to do more within TN. More SRT's would be nice and I like the idea of allowing more teams from sub-state to advance to state. However, we must be careful not to allow the state tourney to be lessened or de-valued by allowing less than qualified teams into tourney. Some sub-states in some age groups may have another few teams that can compete but some sub-states are not even full or have a big drop off in competition after the first two teams. Also, some teams will not register for AAU regardless, choosing to play just locally while others like to just trophy hunt and complain about no competition. Some of the younger teams have many kids from the same school playing and this is fine too. In summary, no matter what TN AAU does some teams will still not participate for their own reasons. Just my 2 cents worth.

Congratulations to Clifford Coleman of TN Team Pride on another great coaching job. Congrads to all the girls for working hard and representing TN well. Also, congrads to TN Elite on a great job as well.