Impact Gold - new coach

[artomatic]

you texans are hard core.

oh wait...except for goldcoloredglasses.
that guy's just plain useless.

[Underdog]

Which would be the higher priority for you: Your kid plays for 2 years on the team she played for during recruiting, playing with/against good players or your kid plays for a team that week in and week out plays with/against better players? We chose the latter. But then we suck as parents. I wish we had consulted people who were more knowledgeable than us. We went with her future coaches suggestions that better competition would better prepare her for college competition.

BTW, given the amount of loyalty/gratitude shown to employees in the business world, anyone want to argue that teaching kids loyalty or gratitude, at their expense, toward an organization will serve them well? I'm afraid I just don't see the point.

Contrarian Squirrel

There certainly has been a decrease of loyalty/gratitude in the business world and that is a sad statement about our society but that is hard to change as an individual . But take that a step further and imply that there is no point in teaching your kid loyalty ? Wow. Your point about playing better competition is a valid one but I think we should still strive to teach our kids loyalty when possible.

[realcoach]

Good point on playing with the best competition. And in some cases, yes the big time college coach has specifically asked IG and others for a spot on their team for their recruits, then told the player to head over there. Of course the player is helpless in this situation. But if the kid is already in a grade A program, moving to the A+ team (in name only) because of a flattering request is what I argue against. But it is a free country (for the time being anyway).

[Blind Squirrel]

Which would be the higher priority for you: Your kid plays for 2 years on the team she played for during recruiting, playing with/against good players or your kid plays for a team that week in and week out plays with/against better players? We chose the latter. But then we suck as parents. I wish we had consulted people who were more knowledgeable than us. We went with her future coaches suggestions that better competition would better prepare her for college competition.

BTW, given the amount of loyalty/gratitude shown to employees in the business world, anyone want to argue that teaching kids loyalty or gratitude, at their expense, toward an organization will serve them well? I'm afraid I just don't see the point.

Contrarian Squirrel

There certainly has been a decrease of loyalty/gratitude in the business world and that is a sad statement about our society but that is hard to change as an individual . But take that a step further and imply that there is no point in teaching your kid loyalty ? Wow. Your point about playing better competition is a valid one but I think we should still strive to teach our kids loyalty when possible.

I said loyalty to an organization, not loyalty in general. I've seen far too many people bust their arse for a company at great expense to themselves only to be tossed when it became convenient for the company (kind of like a kid replaced on a team after tryouts). I consider that a life lesson that I choose to try to pass on to my kids.

John

[anonlooker]

Life lesson:

Now honey, when you're the CEO of an international conglomerate and need to decrease your workforce, loyalty.... wait, what?

.... to your employees comes second to loyalty to your shareholders.

And therein lies the rub.

[4real]

Saddest thing I see though are the committed kids that do rise to the top level of play that somehow seem to think they need to play for IG their junior/senior year to get that last piece of "success". A great marketing job by IG, but I see it as a poor showing of character by the player for not using her success to help promote the team that got her there.

Poor character by the player and the parents.

[MavFan]

Intersting IG website it updated a little and there is not mention of Durham. IG Gold - Organ

[Goldcoloredglasses]

I think that when your kid verbals at 7th or 8th grade you should skip 16's or 18 gold because of possible injury that might put that scholorship in jeopardy.

[93players]

That new 2011-12 Burke lineup has to be one of the best ever put together in Texas. Puts alot of pressure on them. If they are not winning 90% plus something is wrong. Has to be a very likely Texas team to dominate in the coming year.

PS: We have no connection to impact gold now or in the past.

[Blind Squirrel]

Life lesson:

Now honey, when you're the CEO of an international conglomerate and need to decrease your workforce, loyalty.... wait, what?

.... to your employees comes second to loyalty to your shareholders.

And therein lies the rub.

Actually, what I'm talking about are the cases where the cosmic company vision statement includes things like development of employees (common). But when it comes time to walk the walk and show a modicum of loyalty they turn their back on their noble vision and do nothing to develop their "loyal" employees, the ones that are gotten them to their level of success and instead bring in new people (increased risk) who already have that training. I've worked with too many people who busted their a$$ only to be unnecessarily thrown aside for negligible corporate gain. And therein lies the rub for me. And why I see no sense in teaching my kids to be loyal to a company/org. Want to know how much loyalty a newly hired college coach shows to players he didn't recruit? Ask John Calipari's team when he started at Kentucky. Something tells me his attitude is far from unusual, though his was unusually pronounced and well known.

John