5TH Grade Team Banned From Their Playoffs

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edited November 2010 in A Moving Train
.....For being just TOO GOOD!

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Was this the politically correct thing to do or would it have been better to let them play? How would you truly know how good a team is?

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  • Abe_Froman
    Abe_Froman Posts: 35
    Isn't this how they award championships in college football? They just rank teams and say "You're the champion". Okay, so they rank two teams and let them play in a championship game, but it's basically the same.
  • blackredyellow
    blackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    Youth sports can be such a fucking mess... a lot of the way too involved parents can just ruin it for the kids. Maybe break the kids up on different teams next season, but let them playing in the freakin' playoffs.
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,305
    blackredyellow wrote:
    Youth sports can be such a fucking mess... a lot of the way too involved parents can just ruin it for the kids. Maybe break the kids up on different teams next season, but let them playing in the freakin' playoffs.
    Parents are pretty nuts when it comes to meaningless youth sports. My sister asked me to help coach my nephews b-ball team but I turned her down due to the over-reactive and temporarily insane parents that attend the events.

    Back in the late 80s when I was in little league, they had a local playoff and that was it. Now they have 8-10 year olds playing in regional tournaments and travelling up to an hour away to play a game.
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  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    Sounds to me that officials want to protect the other teams from embarrassment? I just think that's ridiculous. Let the kids play! I mean, the coach of this great team would hopefully have enough class to tell his team to do well, but not to make a mockery out of the other team.
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,236
    Jason P wrote:
    blackredyellow wrote:
    Youth sports can be such a fucking mess... a lot of the way too involved parents can just ruin it for the kids. Maybe break the kids up on different teams next season, but let them playing in the freakin' playoffs.
    Parents are pretty nuts when it comes to meaningless youth sports. My sister asked me to help coach my nephews b-ball team but I turned her down due to the over-reactive and temporarily insane parents that attend the events.

    Back in the late 80s when I was in little league, they had a local playoff and that was it. Now they have 8-10 year olds playing in regional tournaments and travelling up to an hour away to play a game.

    I don't think there's anything meaningless about youth sports. It provides activity for our youth who are more and more enjoying the comforts of being at home and sitting on a couch doing nothing. I agree that parents take their children youth sports waaaaay too seriously. I played youth sports and I have 2 step children who play Pop Warner football 12,14 and a daughter who swims competively. I barely say aword at their meets and games.

    I played many sports as a youth and only wanted my mother to watch me play and she wasn't a screamer either. However, you have parents like we did at our son's third playoff game some 3 hours away in Fort Meyers FL. Parents were going balistic towards refs, coaches and their own players. Yes I know it was 2 games away from the Super Bowl in Orlando but screaming at your own players is a bit too much. and very annoying. I couldn't wait for our game to end. :(

    As for the article, no one has ever heard of UPSETS and seeing what your team is made of against the best. Usually at that level they have rules in place to secure that they won't be too many blowouts therefore discouraging losing teams. They do in Pop Warner.

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    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • eyedclaar
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    Isn't this the exact same thing the BCS is doing with Boise State? 8-) Get used to it kids!
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    ridiculous. my brothers U/11s team went through the season undefeated. and yet were allowd to play their grand final. which naturally they won. of course that was back in the 70s when parents werent such a pain in the arse and political correctness didnt exist.
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  • ONCE DEVIDED
    ONCE DEVIDED Posts: 1,131
    I remember playing cricket as a youngster. my first year.
    we played for a very prominent club in our city ( prominent meaning loaded not liked)
    I think it was under 10's
    we were in the lowest grade, pretty well useless. but we were learning and loving playing.

    we managed to get to the final in our grade. And this is when the club stepped in and benched just about our whole team, filling it with higher graded players who's teams failed to reach their final. This of course made our team win the season.
    we were 10 years old for farks sake. but thats some clubs mentality WIN AT ALL COSTS. stuff the kids
    OF course our whole team moved to the closest club in our area. From then till we became adults the team won everything every year unttill under 18's we won all the premierships, then into winter the same coreteam won all the soccer seasons we played in as well. all for a club that didnt even have a club house, it was just a group of soccer and cricket enthusiasts who worked out of the changerooms at our home ground. 20years later they still operate the same way
    its about playing the game, its about the kids
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,305
    g under p wrote:
    Jason P wrote:
    Parents are pretty nuts when it comes to meaningless youth sports. My sister asked me to help coach my nephews b-ball team but I turned her down due to the over-reactive and temporarily insane parents that attend the events.

    Back in the late 80s when I was in little league, they had a local playoff and that was it. Now they have 8-10 year olds playing in regional tournaments and travelling up to an hour away to play a game.

    I don't think there's anything meaningless about youth sports. It provides activity for our youth who are more and more enjoying the comforts of being at home and sitting on a couch doing nothing. I agree that parents take their children youth sports waaaaay too seriously. I played youth sports and I have 2 step children who play Pop Warner football 12,14 and a daughter who swims competively. I barely say aword at their meets and games.

    I played many sports as a youth and only wanted my mother to watch me play and she wasn't a screamer either. However, you have parents like we did at our son's third playoff game some 3 hours away in Fort Meyers FL. Parents were going balistic towards refs, coaches and their own players. Yes I know it was 2 games away from the Super Bowl in Orlando but screaming at your own players is a bit too much. and very annoying. I couldn't wait for our game to end. :(

    As for the article, no one has ever heard of UPSETS and seeing what your team is made of against the best. Usually at that level they have rules in place to secure that they won't be too many blowouts therefore discouraging losing teams. They do in Pop Warner.

    Peace
    Don't get me wrong, I'm not discourging youth sports. I think it is a great social experience and an important part of growing up. I just don't want to get between the cross-hairs of parents until my kid is playing. ;)
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