Hoops

State Coaches, what are their requirements

pickles housemate the country players/coaches left sat morning but if you wait a week or so you will get the whole troth on what it takes to be a state coach. I think after a week of coaching an living with the players they will be ready to spill the beans on anything

I will never forget my SASI tour of the US - we spanked all of the teams that were our age group. Why? the US system does not focus on 14-16 year olds - they start working on them when they are slightly older, when they have matured up, they have career paths in mind, know the stakes, are other puberty and generally smarter.

From that trip with two mens teams (20 odd players from memeory), only two guys every made it properly into the NBL - Pero and Jason Williams --- now is that a stat that Neil Gliddon would be proud of? Scary thing - he probably is proud of that - Never mind what happened to the rest, and never mind the same number made it without him.

Hey - I might be 10 years out of date and been out the junior basketball circles for about the same time and things have probably changed - but look at the AFL, look at US Sports - they do not push and pressure 14-15 year olds like we pressure our junior basketballers.

As been pointed in several posts here - a lot of NBL players did not make State until U18's or u20's - so that means they were better players than them that either dropped out or skills never expanded in there late teenage years.

Looking back, State was one of the best experiences of my teenage life, and it was well worth not having a social life and almost failing high school. C'mon, these kids (and coaches) sacrifice a lot to be part of state - stop trying to take this away from them by shit canning results, coaches, player selection and amount of training - let them enjoy it - cos trust me, everyone involved is 100% comitted and have worked hard to get there

Thats good to hear - cos I reckon I could name 5 potential NBL players from my era that never made it as they dropped out of basketball before they turned 20 as they were burnt out and sick of playing

I love to know where all this time for extra State training is going to come from.

I dug up my old SASI diary from 10 odd years ago, and here was a typical week - and I assume current state players are still doing a similar sort of thing

Sun AM - Junior\Senior District Training (3-4 hours)
Sun PM - State Training (2 hours)
Mon PM - Junior District Training (2 hours)
Tues AM - SASI Training (2 hours)
Tues PM - Senior Div 2 Game
Wed PM - Senior Div 1 Game
Thurs PM - SASI Training (1 hour)
Fri PM - Junior District Game
Sat AM - High School Game
Sat AM - State Training (2 hours)
Sat PM - Senior District Training (2 hours)

11 Games/Trainings, plus 3-4 hours weight training, all In A 7 Day Period, all whilst doing Year 12 - no wonder so many good players burn out before they reach 20.

So - not sure how it is possible for coaches/players to fit in any more training.

I can't believe people are knocking State coaches, assistants and managers - from my experience they spent long hours researching, training and planning, spending a lot of time away from there Families and jobs, all for next to no payment.

And state coaches still zippo!!

A good abl coach gets 5k.
State coach 0!!!

What rubbish.
Get out and do the extra two to three commitments per week, learn from the best, and then apply. No coaching director is going to pick the second or third best coach. Neil gliddon only wants results!

Who would want the job(coaching Director) anyway...your on a hiding to nothing if the above comments are anything to go by.
I find it hard to believe that people dont know the process for getting a state job.
And I can tell you its bloody hard to win a national flag these days.