This society has become so soft as Charmin they reward second place. They reward well we won this and that. When it comes to boys basketball and the unfortunate CIF ruling so we get to watch 200-300 ranked teams play in state titles, that is exactly why participation trophies stand.
Participation is great. One year I was asked by our JV head coach hey I am busy can you coach the DLS summer league tournament. I said sure I can. DLS put us in this small locker room near the football field, hell it felt more like a damn bathroom to he honest.
As they walked us back there was a garbage can full of hardware. They packed second place in a Jesuit summer tourney and back in those days there was no love lost between DLS and Jesuit. They did not like each other at all. Unlike today every one is all buddy buddy.
Point is this. When it comes to boys basketball in the state of California either win and hang banners or STFU. As a SH grad we play SI for one of the longest standing trophies hands down that takes many people to carry. JD Vance couldn’t hold it and let it collapse.
And due to that the WCAL was a win or go home league. SH could have been 6-2 and SI 1-7, if they won the Bruce that is all that matters. But if you smack your lips and have loaded rosters for Christs sakes and can’t get over the hump, well everything else previous doesn’t mean jack shit.
WIN OR STFU. That’s the bottom line. And if your kid didn’t win, OH WELL. Cause many WCAL kids have. PERIOD. Will be back in November to read all the excuses again.
And if it was up to me someone should choke the CIF and remove the open and get back to enrollment basketball. I personally am not going to watch a full team without any D1 or future NBA players play a state title game. It’s pathetic, it’s an injustice to basketball, and with NIL, maybe even the guys who can ask for paychecks may not even make it to Sacramento and let the rest of their team head up there. The open is killing California High school basketball.
Participation is great. One year I was asked by our JV head coach hey I am busy can you coach the DLS summer league tournament. I said sure I can. DLS put us in this small locker room near the football field, hell it felt more like a damn bathroom to he honest.
As they walked us back there was a garbage can full of hardware. They packed second place in a Jesuit summer tourney and back in those days there was no love lost between DLS and Jesuit. They did not like each other at all. Unlike today every one is all buddy buddy.
Point is this. When it comes to boys basketball in the state of California either win and hang banners or STFU. As a SH grad we play SI for one of the longest standing trophies hands down that takes many people to carry. JD Vance couldn’t hold it and let it collapse.
And due to that the WCAL was a win or go home league. SH could have been 6-2 and SI 1-7, if they won the Bruce that is all that matters. But if you smack your lips and have loaded rosters for Christs sakes and can’t get over the hump, well everything else previous doesn’t mean jack shit.
WIN OR STFU. That’s the bottom line. And if your kid didn’t win, OH WELL. Cause many WCAL kids have. PERIOD. Will be back in November to read all the excuses again.
And if it was up to me someone should choke the CIF and remove the open and get back to enrollment basketball. I personally am not going to watch a full team without any D1 or future NBA players play a state title game. It’s pathetic, it’s an injustice to basketball, and with NIL, maybe even the guys who can ask for paychecks may not even make it to Sacramento and let the rest of their team head up there. The open is killing California High school basketball.
