sim111
06-23-2008, 11:15 AM
This has been a very tough weekend for me from a basketball standpoint however I am a firm believer that everything happens for a reason. First, my daughter went down with a knee injury during a pickup game at the Texas A&M Elite Camp and the MRI confirmed she had torn an ACL. The interesting thing is that when she got hurt, the first call I received was from a 12 year old kid that plays for us, Hannah Cambell, and the second call was from a guy I didn't even want on the team because he irked me the first time I met him, however after getting to know him, he is a good guy and his daughter, anotherSYDNEY, made the All Star Team, even though she is only going to the 7th grade, Hannah would have made one as well had she not rolled her ankle.
The surprising thing were people who didn't call, one an AAU coach who kissed my A$$$$$$$ for years wantig me to let my kid play for him which I didn't and another who I have introduced to several college coaches because again folks, I believe in helping people. The first guy, I can understand, however the second guy not calling has truly left an empty space in my heart. I don't get attatched to many folks in this business because it is crooked as hell, you have several snakes slithering around that I just don't want to deal with, White and LaFleur are perfect examples however when I let you in and you screw me, well, that's not a good thing.
Coach Blair told me Sunday morning it was probably the ACL so I was prepared for the worst and my daughter has been through so much BS throughout her career that this is minor. She is one of the best players I have seen come out of Houston and she automatically made us, the Houston Insiders, competitve against the top teams in Houston over the years which brings me to something else. We strictly play AAU, it's more competitve than anything else in our area and i believe you get better by playing against better competition. Well, AAU Tournaments haven't been making, we lost some teams to White and his ugly gear because many parents of average players believe the word sponsored, which again means nothing. We wound up playing in a tournament and ran across a team we had not seen for a couple of years, Westside something and just like days of yesteryear, we popped them. I was sitting by the dad of one of their players, who ironically plays for the Houston Angels and after the game the coach comes over and yells out "I see you are still stealing players" I'm thinking, hmmm, we've beat their team everytime we played them over the years, with a running clock at that, yet she sees me talking to the parent and automatically thinks the worse, even though the kid plays for someone else. When I asked the woman what player I tried to steal, she said her sister, but it was her who inquired about her sister playing with my daughter.
I am tired of this BS, I mean it, it makes no sense and for folks to go out and scream "I'm in it for the kids" This makes me want to throw up everything in my intestines. Why do I do it? Well Mr Lafleur said I did it because I have no life, I'm po(lol), fat and BLOTTED(sic) ,the idiot meant bloated. Maybe he's right, this is my LIFE because I stay in it no matter how many idiot parents or coaches I go off on. No matter how many developmental players I scream after telling them the same old thing over and over and over. I like helping people and I belive I will blessed in the end. My daughter is going to school free, that's a blessing in itself and she will be just fine. My son just graduated from UT and my oldest daughter will graduate from there next year. Those are blessings so I will continue to volunteer my time and energy and degrade the lying scoundrels because folks, lets face it, they can't do a damn thing about it.
The surprising thing were people who didn't call, one an AAU coach who kissed my A$$$$$$$ for years wantig me to let my kid play for him which I didn't and another who I have introduced to several college coaches because again folks, I believe in helping people. The first guy, I can understand, however the second guy not calling has truly left an empty space in my heart. I don't get attatched to many folks in this business because it is crooked as hell, you have several snakes slithering around that I just don't want to deal with, White and LaFleur are perfect examples however when I let you in and you screw me, well, that's not a good thing.
Coach Blair told me Sunday morning it was probably the ACL so I was prepared for the worst and my daughter has been through so much BS throughout her career that this is minor. She is one of the best players I have seen come out of Houston and she automatically made us, the Houston Insiders, competitve against the top teams in Houston over the years which brings me to something else. We strictly play AAU, it's more competitve than anything else in our area and i believe you get better by playing against better competition. Well, AAU Tournaments haven't been making, we lost some teams to White and his ugly gear because many parents of average players believe the word sponsored, which again means nothing. We wound up playing in a tournament and ran across a team we had not seen for a couple of years, Westside something and just like days of yesteryear, we popped them. I was sitting by the dad of one of their players, who ironically plays for the Houston Angels and after the game the coach comes over and yells out "I see you are still stealing players" I'm thinking, hmmm, we've beat their team everytime we played them over the years, with a running clock at that, yet she sees me talking to the parent and automatically thinks the worse, even though the kid plays for someone else. When I asked the woman what player I tried to steal, she said her sister, but it was her who inquired about her sister playing with my daughter.
I am tired of this BS, I mean it, it makes no sense and for folks to go out and scream "I'm in it for the kids" This makes me want to throw up everything in my intestines. Why do I do it? Well Mr Lafleur said I did it because I have no life, I'm po(lol), fat and BLOTTED(sic) ,the idiot meant bloated. Maybe he's right, this is my LIFE because I stay in it no matter how many idiot parents or coaches I go off on. No matter how many developmental players I scream after telling them the same old thing over and over and over. I like helping people and I belive I will blessed in the end. My daughter is going to school free, that's a blessing in itself and she will be just fine. My son just graduated from UT and my oldest daughter will graduate from there next year. Those are blessings so I will continue to volunteer my time and energy and degrade the lying scoundrels because folks, lets face it, they can't do a damn thing about it.