AAU Coaches Vs HS Coaches

[The_Rookie]

Hello,

I will be starting to work some AAU club basketball for 14 and under and was wondering if your exeperiences with AAU youth coaches was different from HS Coaches?

In otherwords, are the Youth Coaches bigger knuckleheads??

[APG]

In general...AAU coaches are worse than your high school coaches. High school coaches have more accountability than your AAU coaches.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by AllPurposeGamer

In general...AAU coaches are worse than your high school coaches. High school coaches have more accountability than your AAU coaches.

Exactly. High School coaches are usually teachers or they are accountable to a school district. If they act up they can lose their jobs or their actions can affect their overall job as a teacher or administrator. AAU coaches paid some money to enter a tournament.

Peace

[Raymond]

AAU coaches definitely behave worse overall in general.

[BLydic]

I wouldn't walk into a gym with the idea that AAU coaches are any different, I've met some very good and knowledgeable people. Your BS threshold may be much shorter, but a coach is a coach and taking care of business is taking care of business. At the 14U level, I would pay more attention to the knuckleheads on the court.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by BLydic

I wouldn't walk into a gym with the idea that AAU coaches are any different, I've met some very good and knowledgeable people. Your BS threshold may be much shorter, but a coach is a coach and taking care of business is taking care of business. At the 14U level, I would pay more attention to the knuckleheads on the court.

The setting is different and that is all that matters. And if that was not the case, why would your BS threshold be different and you are treating everything the same?

Peace

[Adam]

Originally Posted by BLydic

I wouldn't walk into a gym with the idea that AAU coaches are any different, I've met some very good and knowledgeable people. Your BS threshold may be much shorter, but a coach is a coach and taking care of business is taking care of business. At the 14U level, I would pay more attention to the knuckleheads on the court.

Disagree. Preparing yourself to deal with aspiring Coach Ks isn't a bad thing. As has been stated, the fact is that AAU coaches generally behave poorly because they aren't accountable to anyone. Also because, especially at the lower levels, they tend to be less experienced as coaches. Are there exceptions? Sure, but you'll recognize them soon enough.

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by The_Rookie

In otherwords, are the Youth Coaches bigger knuckleheads??

Even HS coaches loathe AAU coaches.

[Multiple Sports]

Go to any AAU tourney anywhere from NY to Richmond, Va. and I guarantee you will hear the following............


HOW LONG??? HOW LONG????? - that is AAU speak for 3 seconds.


CHEATIN REFS - every momma's calling card for the fact that her baby is gettin hosed....


YO THIS AIN'T THE LEAGUE - should be a continous motion play


AND 1 - everytime somone goes to the basket, I need a foul


RUN RUN RUN - we can't run a 1 / 2 ct set


As far as coaches boxes go.............. good luck

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by Multiple Sports

Go to any AAU tourney anywhere from NY to Richmond, Va. and I guarantee you will hear the following............


HOW LONG??? HOW LONG????? - that is AAU speak for 3 seconds.


CHEATIN REFS - every momma's calling card for the fact that her baby is gettin hosed....


YO THIS AIN'T THE LEAGUE - should be a continous motion play


AND 1 - everytime somone goes to the basket, I need a foul


RUN RUN RUN - we can't run a 1 / 2 ct set


As far as coaches boxes go.............. good luck

What happens if you get off on I-64 East and attend games at the Boo Williams SportsPlex?

[Welpe]

I think in the AAU tournament I worked last weekend, there was a tiebreaker that counted the number of times each team said "AND 1". Occasions where they yelled that and the shot failed to go in must have been worth double.

A little surprising to me, I did not have to issue a single T. Had one player get frustrated with me for not calling a foul after he dribbled into two stationary defenders and fell down but that was hit. His coach got on him about that too.

[Lcubed48]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

What happens if you get off on I-64 East and attend games at the Boo Williams SportsPlex?

More of the same??? Unless, BNR is on the game.

A coach is a coach is a coach in my book.

[Scrapper1]

I have only tossed one coach in 19 years (19 years???? God, I'm getting old ) of officiating. It was an AAU coach.

Having said that, my general experience has been that the overwhelming majority have been decent guys/gals.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Lcubed48

A coach is a coach is a coach in my book.

Not Gil Thorp. He's different. Always a perfect gentleman. I've never seen him get a technical foul, or get ejected from a game, and he coaches basketball, football, and baseball, and has been doing it at Milford High School for fifty-three years.

[Multiple Sports]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

What happens if you get off on I-64 East and attend games at the Boo Williams SportsPlex?

I forgot to include your neck of the woods in my statement.


Yes all those things that I have mentioned happen at BW Complex as well.


I look foward to hearing all that stuff in a few weeks when I go down there for a camp !!!!!