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I was just surfing coacht when I came across this post on the aau boards. It's basketball season, is it not? Which means aau should be doing whatever baseball players do during basketball season, not asking school players to attend what sounds like mandatory tryouts for danged summer ball. I sure hope kids tell their coaches at school about this before they attend these "tryouts". Open gym tryouts are scheduled for Nov 17. 8u,9u & 10u from 2 pm -4 pm 11u,12u & 13u from 4 pm-6 pm The next open gym is Dec 1. Players interested in playing for Tn Team Pride in 2008 should attend all workouts. Open gym will be held at: Hooptown Basketball Academy 6910 Stroop Lane Murfreesboro, Tn 37129

I agree ridge, keep it in perspective. Seems to be a little animosity in the air, especially for junior high sports. If the guys play hard, and try to do their best, should be enough at this level to least escape criticism for a lack of talent. It's like the New York press around here! p.s. congrats MJ, make the most of the opportunity.

I go straight to baseball. Watching others playing for our ball just makes me sick, hard to watch any roundball for a while.

Out at Dickson Middle, in that great old wooden gym, the Dickson pep band loaded up in the balconey above the baseline and wore out some old tunes this past December when we played 'em there. It took several seconds before you could make out the song they were playing, but dang, they played it loud! Hard to hear youself think, much less talk in a huddle. I told some kids it reminded me of Hoosiers, and it did. And it was great.

No way anyone scores a 113 points unless they're allowed to score 113 points. Heck, put her on the dang foul line when she hits the 70 mark and is the only starter still on the floor. Doesn't take a political science major to figure out she's looking to break a record, whether you know what the record is or not. If she wants the record, and her knothead coach wants her to get it, they're gonna get at the line. One point at a time until every player on the team is a notch in the book. When we foul every player out, we forfeit. But we don't stand around and watch a "player" make a mockery of the game, with the blessings of a "coach".

Mt. Juliet hands down. That CD operator has a pretty good handle on the tunes.

I agree, worden. Kinda like trying to teach a pig to sing, it wastes your time and annoys the pig. Keep working to improve, hard work will garner positive results. The game is best played against the game. Opponents just fill the spots on the floor. Just work to beat the game and keep the faith.

Tournament opens Feb. 7, at West Wilson Middle with Mt. Juliet vs. Macon County @ 4:00 - Winner vs. WJ Baird Feb. 8 @ 4:00. The late game is Dickson Co. vs. West Wilson @ 6:30 - Winner vs. Sycamore Feb.8 @ 6:30. Feb. 10 is the 3/4 consolation @ 4:00 with the Championship game @ 6:30

Not really symantics, unless you consider completely changing the meanings of words. 2nd string has always meant second in line for duty. Second. Whether you choose to think of both quarterbacks as co-first stringers is irrelevant. Only one can play quarterback as a starter, the next one in line is second and the next, of course is third. Clausen is third, no matter how you slice it. Tennessee is really not a bad place to be a third string quarterback, unless you want to play.

Just wondering, have we ever had a four-overtime game on the corner before? Last night wasn't always pretty, but it will always be pretty dang satisfing. Good job, girls.

The TMSAA sectional is not an invitational tournament. Teams must be TSSAA member schools, which does eliminate non-member schools, but is is a qualification tournament. You must advance, as one of two teams, from your area/conference tournament. The James C Haile, TNT, is, I think, an invitational. Anyone can play, you gotta win to advance - but not to get in.

No team in the state loses a Clark and just goes along, business as usual. Major adjustments will be made, and there is nothing but confidence in those making the adjustments. The Mt. Juliet basketball family has seen trouble before and no doubt will see it again. But one thing remains constant, the goal this program shares thoughout the program. The team has always made the team the number one priority. From the young'uns to the seniors, the TEAM is what makes Mt. Juliet respected across the state. This past Saturday night Alysha Clark, Christian Gibson, Miaca Bowman, and Sarah Muniz made a trip to Rutherford County to support the middle school girls basketball team as they played in their conference tournament. It's this basketball family mentality that will help pull the girls though yet another rough spot in the road. Get well, Alysha.

I guess my post would lend itself to bashing these kids. Not about bashing kids, especially these two, as I don't know them from Adam. I just read into the post and the "quitter" tag showed up and I assumed. We all know what assume does. I apologize to anyone offended by my post. I meant no harm to these kids or their parents. So, let me re-phrase, I wouldn't want a quitter or quitter parents near my team. Period.

I'll bet coaches aren't excited to see them coming. I can't imagine welcoming people into your program who are all about themselves. No matter what they're able to do on the floor, they'll eventually hurt your team.

Kelly Gasey?

CoachT, junior high's relation to high school is not only the incentive but the very foundation of high school sports. Topical conversation between area junior high basketball observers would not seem to be off-topic any more than the discussions concerning college signings. It's just taking girls basketball to the beginning stages.

The puzzler is a new twist on coacht. Usually the only mysteries to be found concern "who is?" But, in true Batman style, I would say the aforementioned personalities, were they actual beings, (indeed dead, enigma) are all brothers of famous, successful people. Which alludes to the fact that they probably spent their lives working in the shadow of said brothers, most surely feeling some resentment at never receiving the adulation their brothers received. Maybe they were chronic complainers?

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Showtime, I hope you're wrong. I'd hate for (say it like Bernie Mac) AMERICA to miss out on a packed house, Ernest T in game form, the MJ Mafia in the wings and a game everyone will claim to have seen in person. Gotta find me some Black and Gold clothing for that night. Go Bears!

I knew that, Salty. I forgot to include that link. That's not plagiarism is it?

Better get it early is right, or you'll be watching the highlights on Dateline.

Not a problem but, what I took from your post was the team that "jelled". The team that won despite a first-year coach. A team that would have won, regardless of who coached them. That is my point. There are coaches that could have screwed your season by coming in and setting a new table. Coaches have taken teams apart by failing to recognize when and where to work on specifics. Sometimes, in order to make sure everyone knows who is boss, they'll over-coach and over-control teams. Your coach obviously didn't feel he had to do this, at least that's the way I read it. Coaches have more to do with the game than some want to believe. To quote the great and powerful SALTY, On why he told NBA owner he wanted to be paid more, and have a longer contract, than the highest-paid player on the team: "I don't think there's ever been a player that's more valuable than a good coach."

Disagree. Whether your girls were great, or jelled, or whatever, to think that a coach couldn't screw it up is naive. Good coaches sometimes make teams better by not getting in the way. Setting rules and enforcing team behavior but not over-coaching. Bobby Knight once said the game of basketball was the most over-coached and under-taught game in the world. Don't kid yourself, coaches are important. Sometimes, by letting kids play and learn by making mistakes.

You're right, Zo, it's the right thing to do.

I'm with you ErnestT, playdays are for working and if you win while you work so much the better. There are some winners suiting up in Mt. Juliet, get used to it.