No More Spring Practice

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[formertncoach]

Wow! Basketball got screwed. Lost Spring Practice, Lost all of July, Lost two regular season games....Man something stuck the knife in deep and twisted. Bet the football coaches are dancing!!!

[Jim Harrick]

tssaa is a joke,,,,,,these new guidelines or RULES are terrible and make no sense. They should have let the coaches vote, not 8 principals!

NOW COACHES HAVE TO TRACK each player over the AAU season and make sure they don't play on an illegal team, with 3 or more players. This makes a bunch of sense. It's created more work for the coaches.

TSSAA IS GOVERNING what kids do in the off season,,,can you say "LAW TIME" Get ready TSSAA

[rolltide418]

If I am reading this correctly it will not effect this summer. It says it takes effect starting July 30th the start of fall practices. Does this mean fall sports, basketball, etc. can stay status quo this summer and the changes will not start for them until 2008?

[bigchief]

Yes

[greenevillefan]

This is the biggest bunch of B.S. that I have ever seen. TSSAA can't control what a kid wants to do in the summer.

[PFDAD]

haven't taken it all in yet but will chime in later ...but having a kid that played three sports in high school ...football, basketball and tennis ....from what i can see it doesn't look all that bad ....i don't think that tssaa is regulating the kids as much as it is THE COACHES , some of them were getting out of hand....

100 "OFF SEASON" games is too many......demanding that kids play the sport that YOU coach year around is idiotic....i am anti- specialization to the bone...i was taken to task on here a few months ago by someone who said a certain kid should not play basketball because he should concentrate on base ball ...because that's where his so called scholarship opportunities were.....well that same kid (from gatlinburg pittman) signed a scholarship to play FOOTBALL on signing day...after basketball was 80% over...let's see..........................he quit BASKETBALL to concentrate on BASEBALL then he signed a scholarship for FOOTBALL..............................i only wonder if he is even playing baseball now ........perhaps he is playing soccer ....best i remember he was a dang good soccer player when he was younger............

[Jim Harrick]

QUOTE(PFDAD @ Mar 16 2007 - 09:03 AM) 826413973[/snapback]haven't taken it all in yet but will chime in later ...but having a kid that played three sports in high school ...football, basketball and tennis ....from what i can see it doesn't look all that bad ....i don't think that tssaa is regulating the kids as much as it is THE COACHES , some of them were getting out of hand....

100 "OFF SEASON" games is too many......demanding that kids play the sport that YOU coach year around is idiotic....i am anti- specialization to the bone...i was taken to task on here a few months ago by someone who said a certain kid should not play basketball because he should concentrate on base ball ...because that's where his so called scholarship opportunities were.....well that same kid (from gatlinburg pittman) signed a scholarship to play FOOTBALL on signing day...after basketball was 80% over...let's see..........................he quit BASKETBALL to concentrate on BASEBALL then he signed a scholarship for FOOTBALL..............................i only wonder if he is even playing baseball now ........perhaps he is playing soccer ....best i remember he was a dang good soccer player when he was younger............

 

That post made zero sense, the HS coaches don't coach AAU in the spring/summer season. How can TSSAA regulate what team a kid wants to play for in the spring/summer. That is dictatorship.

[DC_54_14]

QUOTE(formertncoach @ Mar 16 2007 - 07:38 AM) 826413890[/snapback]Bet the football coaches are dancing!!!

 

 

You know it! They will be little dissapointed when the basketball boys still don't want to play football though.

[bigdave25]

So, since open facilities are closed are basketball coaches allowed to mandate workouts. Weights and Conditioning?

[takepride]

QUOTE(greenevillefan @ Mar 16 2007 - 09:03 AM) 826413971[/snapback]This is the biggest bunch of B.S. that I have ever seen. TSSAA can't control what a kid wants to do in the summer.

 

These rule changes hurt more of the rural counties than anyone. I have heard proposals of breaking away from the TSSAA and it souded worth listening to.

[therock]

Now guys don't be so upset. Everyone knows that football is the sport that makes the most money and that is what always influences tssaa. They would cut out the rest of the sports if they could. Basketball can't have spring practice but football can, baseball can't play in the fall because it will interfere with football but football can have spring practice during baseball season. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that tssaa has said to heck with the kids, show me the money. Somewhere down the road the schools are going to have to say the heck with tssaa.