AAU clarification

[QSouth89]

19 hours ago, threeball said:

Its actually not through the summer... HS coaches can coach any 8th grade student... once the 8th grader is no longer enrolled in 8th grade (graduate from middle school) then they cannot coach them.... because they have been promoted into the next grade which be high school 9th grade.....  There is one exception: if the school is one campus (6-12 or K-12) then the HS coach cannot coach 8th Graders in AAU because potentially an 8th grader could play on his HS team...

The rule of the 3 players on a team (or 60%) only applies in the fall.  

If a high school coach (head or assistant) is coaching an 8th grade AAU team, once the school year ends they have to stop coaching them?  Even if the athletes do not enroll at the high school the coach works for? 

[threeball]

Not if the players are not going into the school that the coach is currently at... no... Sorry for the confusion. 

[IrishBBall]

2 hours ago, threeball said:

Not if the players are not going into the school that the coach is currently at... no... Sorry for the confusion. 

I thought they were okay until the day they walked into that school in August since they could theoretically attend another school.

[threeball]

And thus the confusion......... I'm just telling you what I was told from the TSSAA when I called them about it... although that was a couple years ago.... could have changed, or been "interpreted differently" since then. 

[WhereYouAt]

17 hours ago, IrishBBall said:

I thought they were okay until the day they walked into that school in August since they could theoretically attend another school.

The state needs to make zoning mandatory so that coaches know who is going to their school and then allow the high school coaches to work with the middle school coaches. It is the only answer.

[threeball]

Agree... its sad that some schools have to "recruit their own" to keep the kids zoned for them.... However, the TSSAA nor TDoE will never make zoning across the board... because many school systems benefit from being "special city school districts" financially...  

[abo14]

On 5/9/2018 at 2:32 PM, IrishBBall said:

I thought they were okay until the day they walked into that school in August since they could theoretically attend another school.

Most are going to have tryouts for the following year before school is out.

[IrishBBall]

5 hours ago, abo14 said:

Most are going to have tryouts for the following year before school is out.

8th graders can't tryout until their school year is complete.

[WhereYouAt]

On 5/11/2018 at 2:48 PM, IrishBBall said:

8th graders can't tryout until their school year is complete.

Correct. But as soon as they make a team in May they become a part of that team.

[IrishBBall]

2 hours ago, WhereYouAt said:

Correct. But as soon as they make a team in May they become a part of that team.

But what if tryouts aren't until November?